Forthright
For nearly 65 years after Independence, India was governed more by political convenience than constitutional conviction. The Congress party, which dominated power for most of this period, institutionalised indecision, nurtured vote-bank politics, and allowed systemic corruption to become an accepted feature of governance. By 2014, India had not failed—but it had been deliberately restrained. Narendra…
What Karnataka and Telangana are demanding today is not social justice; it is constitutional butchery disguised as benevolence. Their brazen push for 56 to 60 per cent reservations, and the audacity to demand its burial in the Ninth Schedule, is nothing but a calculated attempt to permanently destroy the very idea of reservations while pretending…
Over the last decade, India’s steady ascent as a credible military power has unfolded despite persistent scepticism abroad and deliberate narrative sabotage at home. While adversarial states continue to test India through terror proxies, cyber operations and internal destabilisation, sections of the domestic ecosystem remain curiously invested in downplaying the armed forces’ growing capabilities. Yet,…
The Congress Party’s celebratory chest-thumping over the recent Delhi High Court proceedings in the National Herald case reveals something deeply troubling. Either the party does not understand the law it so frequently sermonises about—or it is deliberately misleading the country. Contrary to the manufactured narrative pushed by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and the party’s legal…
The Congress party’s increasingly desperate attempt to manufacture a narrative of “vote chori” has suffered a serious blow—not from the BJP or the Election Commission of India (ECI), but from within its own INDIA bloc. Rahul Gandhi’s reckless allegations questioning the integrity of India’s electoral process and casting aspersions on a constitutional body were meant…
For years, the Opposition has perfected a lazy political slogan: “BJP is stealing elections.” EVMs, institutions, democracy—everything is allegedly compromised. But as the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal progresses, an inconvenient question now demands an answer: who is actually stealing votes? Because what the SIR is unearthing is…
I walked into the theatre more out of curiosity than conviction. The reviews of Durandhar were already trending, social media was buzzing, and long queues of self-described nationalists and patriots were forming outside cinema halls. I wanted to see for myself whether the film was mere political propaganda—or whether it dared to revisit uncomfortable truths…
Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal’s blunt assertion that “the ball is now in the US court” is not rhetorical bravado. It reflects a strategic recalibration in Washington—forced, not voluntary—after years of arm-twisting, veiled threats and tariff theatrics failed to extract concessions from New Delhi. The prolonged India–US trade negotiations have reached a moment where America’s…
Diplomacy, in the hands of seasoned practitioners, is a craft. In the hands of amateur showmen, it is often a ping-pong match—complete with theatrics, overacting, and unforced errors. In the last few months, the India–US equation has offered a strange combination of both, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump engaged in…
Tamil Nadu is once again at the centre of a religious confrontation — and not by coincidence. The escalating battle over the Karthigai Deepam ritual at Thiruparankundram Hill has turned into a direct clash between the Hindu majority’s centuries-old religious practices and a DMK government whose ideological hostility toward Sanatana Dharma is a matter of…
