Category "Advice"

When the Megaphone Lowers Its Volume: Arnab, Sudhir and the Quiet Recalibration of Indian TV News

For years, Indian prime-time news has followed an unspoken rule: power speaks, anchors echo. Among them, Arnab Goswami stood out—not as a neutral observer, but as the most aggressive and unapologetic defender of the ruling establishment. Since the launch of Republic TV, his editorial positioning has been widely perceived as...

Two forests. One pattern. And a country pretending it’s not connected.

If you want to understand how “development” actually works in India, don’t listen to speeches. Watch what happens to forests that don’t have PR teams. Hasdeo Arand in Chhattisgarh and the Aravalli range across Rajasthan–Haryana–Delhi–Gujarat tell the same story in two different accents. One is a dense, living forest that...

Why Congress Is Afraid of Shashi Tharoor — And Why That Fear Says More About Congress Than About Him

There is a strange silence in Indian politics right now. And silence, in Congress, is never accidental. Shashi Tharoor moves freely. He meets people. He speaks globally. He writes, lectures, represents India abroad, comments on diplomacy, culture, economy—often sounding more like India’s unofficial foreign minister than an MP from Thiruvananthapuram....