Temple freedom must mean accountability too The battle for Hindu temples should not end with freeing them from government control. It should begin with ensuring every rupee offered by devotees is beyond suspicion. For decades, one of the most contentious debates in Bharat’s constitutional and religious landscape has revolved around a simple but uncomfortable question:…
Beijing 1967: Bharat’s Diplomatic Humiliation Every time the Congress party and its leadership attempt to lecture Bharat about patriotism, sovereignty or accuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi of having “surrendered to America”, I am compelled to revisit history. Not history manufactured through political speeches, but history documented in painful detail. This is precisely why I feel…
A new political churning is underway in Bharat’s rapidly evolving political landscape. The aftershocks of the recent Assembly elections appear to have fundamentally altered the balance of power between the ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Congress-led Opposition bloc, IN.D.I.A. What seemed unthinkable a few years ago is increasingly becoming a political reality…
Politics often creates the illusion of permanence. Power convinces leaders that they are invincible, that public office is their birthright, and that popular support can shield them from the consequences of their actions. History, however, repeatedly teaches a different lesson. Empires fall, rulers fade, and political giants are humbled. In the end, there is one…
For centuries, Bharat was a torchbearer of science, mathematics, and astronomy. Long before much of the world understood the movement of planets or complex calculations, ancient Bharatiya scholars had already laid foundations in mathematics, medicine, metallurgy and space observation. From Aryabhata to Sushruta, Bharat’s intellectual heritage was once admired globally. But history was not kind….
In my view, one of the gravest dangers confronting Indian democracy today is not merely corruption, political confrontation, or institutional friction. Democracies are designed to withstand all that. The real danger begins when institutions entrusted with protecting constitutional morality themselves begin attracting public suspicion. Once that happens, public confidence starts eroding rapidly, and the vacuum…
In my personal view, one of the biggest mistakes political observers make while assessing the Bharatiya Janata Party in South India is judging it through the lens of immediate electoral victories. The BJP does not usually think in terms of one election cycle. It thinks in decades. That is what fundamentally differentiates it from most…
There are moments in the civilizational journey of a nation when political shifts are not merely electoral outcomes but deeper reflections of social awakening. Bharat, today, appears to be passing through one such phase. The churn is not just political; it is cultural, ideological, historical, and even psychological. What the country is witnessing is not…
On the eve of the verdict, I will stick my neck out and say this: we may well be staring at a 4–1 verdict in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party across key battlegrounds—Assam, West Bengal, Puducherry, and, in a more complex arithmetic, even Tamil Nadu through alliances. That may sound bold. But elections are…
Politics, much like history, has a habit of repeating itself—first as conviction, then as convenience. The latest attempt by K. Kavitha to resurrect the Telangana Rashtra Sena (Samiti) (TRS) name falls squarely in the latter category. It may evoke nostalgia, but nostalgia alone does not win elections, nor does it revive a sentiment that has…
