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If Parliament ever needed a reminder of why the Congress continues to dig itself into deeper irrelevance, Rahul Gandhi kindly delivered it—live, unfiltered, and in prime-time clarity. The Leader of the Opposition, who often sounds more like a leader of confusion, opened the debate on SIR with the confidence of a man who had skimmed…
China has once again demonstrated that it remains tone-deaf to a changing geopolitical reality and blind to the fact that India of 2025 is not the India of 1962. Its latest provocation—the arbitrary detention of an Indian woman traveller at the Shanghai airport—may look like a routine immigration episode in Beijing’s telling. But New Delhi…
In a democracy that prides itself on periodic and peaceful elections, it is rather shocking that Booth Level Officers (BLOs)—the grassroots backbone of the electoral process—are now being portrayed as victims of unbearable institutional pressure. A recent report in a national media outlet, based on what it calls a “research study,” claims that some teachers…
Telangana is preparing for one of its most ambitious exercises in future planning: the Rising Telangana Global Conclave, where Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and his team will unveil the Telangana Rising Vision Document 2047 on December 9. It is a moment that deserves recognition. For a state still shaping its identity in the national…
The latest manufactured outrage over the Central government’s decision to pre-install the Sanchar Saathi app on new smartphones exposes the Opposition’s chronic habit of attacking first and understanding later. Congress, predictably leading the chorus, has rushed to label the app “intrusive” and “dictatorial,” as if the government were trying to plant surveillance tools inside every…
For decades after Independence, India’s military posture was defined by defensive restraint—often necessary, often costly. From the trauma of 1962 to the surprise of Kargil, our armed forces were too frequently asked to fight with limited technological support, outdated doctrinal thinking, and a political class nervous about projecting power. But over the last decade, that…
Sometimes revolutions arrive loudly. Others appear as a routine PDF on a Supreme Court website. What the Court uploaded this week looked like a dry docket of High Court appointments under Chief Justice B.R. Gavai. It is not. It is the most radical act of transparency the Collegium has ever undertaken—one that may permanently rewrite…
The Congress party’s Karnataka government—its only major southern citadel after Telangana—is once again on the brink of internal implosion. The latest crisis stems from an increasingly visible, increasingly bitter power struggle between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy, the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) chief D.K. Shivakumar. And once again, the so-called “Gandhi family leadership”—Rahul…
For Mallikarjun Kharge, the president of a collapsing Congress party, to declare that the BJP and RSS have “no respect for the Constitution” is not only ridiculous — it is laughable. A party that has spent decades twisting, tinkering, diluting, and weaponizing the Constitution for vote-bank politics now wants to lecture the nation on constitutional…
Universities are often described as temples of learning, places where knowledge is pursued without fear, bias, or ideological coercion. They are meant to be sanctuaries for curiosity and intellectual freedom, not battlegrounds for religious indoctrination. Yet, recent revelations surrounding Jamia Millia Islamia raise an unsettling and unavoidable question: what happens when a seat of learning…
