One has to admire the Congress party’s remarkable gift for retroactive genius. The Centre announces a caste census, and promptly, Rahul Gandhi is credited as the visionary who forced the government’s hand. Never mind that for over six decades, when the Congress ruled uninterrupted, the very idea of caste enumeration was brushed under the carpet….
In the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, the battlefield has expanded beyond traditional military engagements to include media and social media platforms, transforming the nature of confrontation in the subcontinent. Nuclear threats Pakistani officials have issued statements highlighting their nuclear capabilities, suggesting potential use if a full-scale war ensues. These declarations have been amplified…
In a move that surprises no one, Pakistan’s Army Chief General Asif Munir, the man who can’t stop ranting about nukes and Kashmir, has reportedly either fled the country or locked himself inside a nuclear bunker. This comes right after the brutal Islamist terror attack in Pahalgam that killed over two dozen Hindus and others….
India has long charged Pakistan with cultivating terrorism as an instrument of statecraft. These allegations were met with denials – until Pakistan’s Defence Minister, Khwaja Asif, delivered a blunt admission on Sky News: ‘We have been doing this dirty work for the United States for about three decades… and the West, including Britain.’ Institutionalised terror…
Has Pakistan set a trap for Indian commandos? In the wake of the horrific Pahalgam massacre, where Hindu tourists were cold-bloodedly targeted after their religion was ascertained – a savage act that reeked of premeditation and sectarian hate – it is time to ask hard questions. Not just of those who carried out the carnage,…
There’s an old joke doing the rounds – one of those that is so ridiculous you wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out to be true. A certain nawab’s prized horse, the story goes, once paused in a pasture to relieve itself. Now, a few generations and many legal fictions later, the land is claimed…
‘Political vendetta’ has become the go-to excuse for the politically cornered. So overused now, it might as well be part of every party’s standard template. Every knock is a conspiracy Every time the law takes a step in the direction of a Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader, K Chandrashekar Rao and K Taraka Rama Rao…
How a Jharkhand minister’s casual communalism mirrors a deeper and dangerous mindset When Jharkhand minister Hafizul Ansari declared with unsettling ease that for Muslims, ‘Shariat comes first, Constitution later’, he wasn’t merely expressing a personal belief. He was, in essence, renouncing the very oath he took when he assumed public office. A minister in a…
As Mamataland simmers again under the heat of street protests, stone-pelting, and spontaneous burning of state property, the question arises, almost with a sense of weary inevitability: Has the time come to impose President’s Rule? This week’s eruption in Murshidabad over the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, which left at least three dead and many more…
Vandemataram Ravindra seeks weightage for government school students in national entrance exams It’s a race, says Vandemataram Ravindra, and the odds are skewed. When a weak child competes with a healthy one, is the outcome ever in doubt? Such is the plight of students in government-run schools and colleges – often rural, poorly funded, and…
