When Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the AI Impact Summit 2026 on Monday, the message was unmistakable: India does not intend to be a passive consumer of artificial intelligence—it wants to shape, scale, and civilise it. The summit was not merely another technology conference heavy on jargon and light on consequence. It marked an inflection…

There is a thin line between protest and provocation, between compassion and calculated theatrics. The latest controversy involving Renuka Chowdhury once again raises a troubling question: has a section of the Congress leadership begun to treat parliamentary procedure as optional? The Rajya Sabha MP has been served a notice for alleged breach of privilege after…

For 75 years after Independence, India governed itself from buildings conceived, designed and named by its colonial rulers. The symbolism was impossible to ignore. The imposing South Block and North Block, designed by Herbert Baker in the 1920s, stood as enduring reminders of imperial authority on Raisina Hill. They were architectural marvels, no doubt—but they…

There was a time when disruption in Parliament was an exception — a last resort deployed in moments of grave national crisis. Today, it risks becoming a political strategy. And the BJP-led NDA appears to have decided that enough is enough. For the past week, the Budget Session of Parliament — particularly the Lok Sabha…

The Union Home Ministry’s reported directive to States and Union Territories to accord Vande Mataram the same ceremonial respect as Jana Gana Mana at official functions is more than a bureaucratic instruction. It is a cultural statement—one that reopens an old debate about history, identity and political intent. To understand why this move carries emotional…

Pakistan’s sudden U-turn on playing India in the ongoing ICC T20 World Cup was neither sporting goodwill nor diplomatic maturity. It was a reluctant retreat, forced by hard realities the Pakistan Cricket Board and the Shehbaz Sharif government can neither deny nor escape. Behind the loud rhetoric, moral posturing and manufactured outrage lay an uncomfortable…

Is the Opposition serious—or merely staging another episode of parliamentary theatre? The INDIA bloc’s reported decision to move a resolution seeking the removal of Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is less a constitutional exercise and more a political joke played in broad daylight. Cloaked in procedural language and inflated rhetoric, the move exposes not the…

For decades, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has been portrayed—often caricatured—as the dark force behind India’s so-called “majoritarian project.” Its Sarsanghchalak, Mohan Bhagwat, is routinely projected by sections of the Opposition ecosystem as the real villain of India’s political churn. And yet, on Sunday in Mumbai, something quietly disruptive happened: people actually listened. Not through hostile…

At a time when global central banks are oscillating between inflation anxiety and growth fatigue, the Reserve Bank of India’s decision to hold the repo rate steady has invited predictable criticism. With the Indian rupee under pressure against the US dollar and global financial conditions tightening, the expectation in some quarters was that the RBI…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reply to the Presidential Address in the Rajya Sabha was not merely a political rebuttal—it was a forensic dissection of a party that ruled India for most of its post-Independence history, yet left behind a legacy of stagnation, entitlement, and institutional decay. This came after his entry was stalled by some…