If Parliament is the arena where a nation’s future is debated with seriousness and substance, then Friday’s spectacle in the Lok Sabha was a sobering reminder of how quickly standards can slip when responsibility is treated as optional. What should have been a focused, high-stakes discussion on constitutional amendments to empower women instead veered into…

Bumrah clash exposes deeper cracks in the Mumbai Indians’ dressing room Let’s not sugarcoat this—something is clearly off inside the Mumbai Indians camp, and the cracks are no longer confined to whispers behind dressing room doors. They are visible, audible, and increasingly damaging on the field. This is not just about a bad run of…

In matters of national security, half-measures are a luxury India can ill afford. The decisive shift under Prime Minister Narendra Modi reflects a clear understanding of this reality: deterrence is built not on rhetoric, but on capability. Nowhere is this more evident than in the government’s sustained push to modernise the Indian Air Force (IAF)—the…

A dangerous intellectual laziness has crept into India’s public discourse—one that finds it easier to demonise an entire community than to confront the complexity of history or the realities of present-day India. The persistent targeting of Brahmins, routinely cast as the perpetual oppressor, is no longer incidental—it has become fashionable, even politically rewarding. But how…

West Bengal today stands at a dangerous crossroads—not merely politically, but demographically and institutionally. And at the heart of this churn is the increasingly desperate rhetoric of Mamata Banerjee, whose latest allegation of a “₹1,000 crore deal” to split minority votes is less a political charge and more a revealing confession of insecurity. Let’s call…

At a time when much of the world is reeling under an unprecedented energy shock triggered by tensions in West Asia and the disruption of critical supply routes like the Strait of Hormuz, India stands out—not as a victim, but as a calibrated, confident player safeguarding its interests while expanding its global footprint. This is…

As Keralam votes to elect its 140-member Assembly, this is no routine electoral exercise. Beneath the orderly queues and sealed EVMs lies a deeper political churn—one that could well redefine the state’s entrenched binary. For decades, Keralam has oscillated between the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the United Democratic Front (UDF), a predictable pendulum that…

For once, humanity appears to have edged past brinkmanship. The 39th day of the West Asia war—already soaked in over 5,000 lives, including more than 1,600 Iranian civilians—offered a fragile pause. Not because the war exhausted itself, but because Donald Trump chose, at the eleventh hour, to step back from the precipice he had so…