Bharat’s progress is often measured through GDP growth, infrastructure expansion, global influence and technological achievements. Yet, some of the most compelling indicators of national development are far less glamorous: how many mothers survive childbirth and how many children live beyond their fifth birthday. On these critical human development indicators, Bharat has achieved a remarkable transformation,…
The BJP’s public mockery of the Congress’s much-hyped ‘Delhi Chalo’ mobilisation on Sunday, backed by visuals of vacant stretches at Ramlila Maidan, has put the party’s declining street appeal under the spotlight. Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi and his INDIA bloc partners had sought to project the rally as a massive show of public…
The Supreme Court’s verdict affirming Telangana government’s ownership of 550.39 acres of prime land at Miyapur is undoubtedly a feather in the cap of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy. It is more than a significant legal victory in a 23-year-old dispute; it is a powerful reminder that public property, particularly land worth thousands of crores,…
A government’s foremost responsibility is to protect the nation, uphold constitutional order and ensure that public institutions are not subverted by those seeking power through unlawful means. Against this backdrop, the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh has put the spotlight on a contentious question: should participation in activities described as anti-national or aimed…
The Congress has discovered an inconvenient truth: elections can be lost even without Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). Its candidates have drawn a blank in the Legislative Council elections across four states, dealing a political blow to Rahul Gandhi’s relentless campaign against alleged “vote chori”. When the ballot paper, rather than the EVM, delivers an embarrassing…
Rahul Gandhi has once again exposed the contradictions at the heart of his politics. When traders in Delhi and elsewhere, facing business losses running into crores amid political agitations, appealed to the Leader of the Opposition to postpone protests in view of the approaching Diwali festival, his response was to ask them to tell the…
Mallikarjun Kharge’s “Modi ka baap bhi jayega” remark is more than an unsavoury political barb. Coming from a septuagenarian Congress president, it is an indictment of the political culture of a party that once claimed to set the standards of parliamentary democracy. When a leader of his stature descends to such language against Prime Minister…
Hyderabad’s water worries should serve as a wake-up call for every government that has governed Telangana. A metropolis aspiring to compete with Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata cannot afford to treat drinking water as a problem to be addressed only when reservoirs run low and residents begin worrying about their taps running dry. The immediate alarm…
There are moments when recognition from abroad carries a message that domestic political sparring cannot easily drown out. The New York Times, hardly a newspaper that can be dismissed as a Bhartiya government mouthpiece, has drawn attention to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s energetic diplomatic outreach and Bharat’s efforts to secure concrete gains in an increasingly…
Democracies cannot afford to ignore the possibility that money, ideology and disinformation can be weaponised to weaken governments from within. The controversy surrounding Neville Roy Singham, a US-born technology entrepreneur based in Shanghai, raises uncomfortable questions about the global reach of Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-aligned propaganda and the role of opaque funding in political activism….
