In 1976, during the dark days of the Emergency, Indira Gandhi’s regime smuggled two loaded words— “secular” and “socialist”—into the Preamble of the Indian Constitution through the 42nd Amendment. It wasn’t just a cosmetic change. It was a calculated move to distort India’s civilizational identity, weaponize the Constitution for vote-bank politics, and suppress the majority…
That New Bharat won’t sign silence on terrorism was loud and clear at the just-concluded Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in China. In a rare but resolute act of diplomatic defiance, India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh refused to sign the joint communique at the SCO Defence Ministers’ conclave. Why? Because the document deliberately omitted any…
In a watershed moment for India’s ambitions in human space exploration, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla of the Indian Air Force has embarked on a 14-day mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the multinational Axiom-4 mission. This isn’t merely another lift-off—it’s a leap for India’s aspirations to become a full-fledged human spaceflight…
By re-inducting a tainted former cricketer to assist in the affairs of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), the Telangana High Court has stirred not just eyebrows but fundamental concerns about institutional memory, judicial consistency, and the larger principles of natural justice. The renaming of Vanka Pratap—whose record is already marred by disqualification in a conflict-of-interest…
Once the world’s highest recognition for peace, the Nobel Peace Prize is now a tarnished relic of its former self—confused, compromised, and increasingly irrelevant. What was once a beacon of neutrality and moral clarity has devolved into a cocktail of virtue-signaling, corporate pandering, and geopolitical gamesmanship. The rot set in quite visibly with the 2009…
Once again, the Narendra Modi government has demonstrated what efficient governance and resolute leadership look like in times of global crisis. As the spectre of full-scale war looms large in West Asia—with the United States formally joining Israel in striking Iranian nuclear sites—India wasted no time in securing the lives of its citizens trapped in…
There was a time not too long ago when Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) was mocked as a bloated, slow-moving behemoth. It was dubbed irrelevant in an era where private sector players—some politically favoured—were thought to hold the key to India’s defence and aerospace future. The same HAL is now writing a bold new chapter in…
In a spectacle that exposed not just diplomatic hypocrisy but also the slow unravelling of US hegemony, the US President Donald Trump recently held a closed-door meeting with Pakistan Army Chief Gen. Asim Munir at the White House. The official version was that Munir was “invited.” But every shred of context points to something else:…
The Indian judiciary has long stood on a high pedestal, cloaked in the sanctity of impartiality and public trust. But what happens when that very institution becomes the breeding ground for rot? The recent revelations surrounding former Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma, whose residence was found stacked with unexplained cash—exposed only because of…
So, the much-anticipated handshake between US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G7 sidelines in Kananaskis didn’t happen. Was it an accident of war or a diplomatic sleight-of-hand? Depends on who you ask. The Indian media, ever the spinner of “Modi moment” narratives, may try to package it as a…
