Columnist-M.S.Shanker

Appeasement in Disguise

When governments start playing with numbers, it’s often the people who get played. The recent caste survey released by the Karnataka government is a prime example — a report riddled with discrepancies, hidden agendas, and what increasingly looks like a calculated political manoeuvre to redraw the social justice map in favour of vote-bank arithmetic rather…

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Columnist-M.S.Shanker

National Herald: Endgame Begins

The Congress party, long shielded by legacy, entitlement, and a pliant ecosystem of loyalists, is now staring down the barrel of the law in the festering scandal that is the National Herald case. With the Enforcement Directorate (ED) filing a chargesheet against Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, and their close aide Sam Pitroda, the noose is…

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