RSS began in 1925 with a handful of men and a marching stick. A century later, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) unveils a gleaming multi-tower complex in Delhi — Keshav Kunj, a structure so massive and polished that people mistake it for a 7-star hotel. But the building is only...
India’s creator economy looks glamorous from the outside — ring lights glowing like halos, influencers sipping cold brews, and everyone pretending they woke up flawless. But behind every viral Reel is the ugly truth: a tired creator, a phone hanging to life on 4%, and the same clip shot twelve...
Knives aren’t the killers. Gas stoves aren’t the villains. The real danger in Indian kitchens today is what we trustingly put on our plates. Bread containing hazardous chemicals. Milk diluted with detergent, urea, and outright filth. Spices brightened with textile dyes that should never be near human stomachs. And now,...
There was a time when certain jobs stood on a pedestal. People saluted them, trusted them, even feared them. And now? They’ve become memes, reels, and WhatsApp forwards — the modern equivalent of being declared a global joke. Let’s take a tour. 1. INFLUENCERS: From Experts to “Bro, Trust Me”...
Kerala loves wearing its literacy crown. We flaunt it in debates, social media bios, tourism campaigns, and political speeches. Highest literacy in India, they say — often with a smug smile, as if literacy automatically equals ethics, integrity, and intelligence. Then reality kicked down the door. In recent weeks, Kerala...
Narcissists don’t walk around with warning labels. If they did, half the world would be running, the other half would be filing for therapy reimbursement. They’re everywhere—homes, offices, friend circles, WhatsApp groups, even NGOs fighting “for the greater good.” And no, they’re not always loud or arrogant. Some are soft-spoken....
India wasn’t facing one crisis that day. It was facing many—real, breathing, bleeding crises. And what did the government choose to do? Stage a cultural soap opera in Parliament for over 10 hours. Let’s start with the facts they didn’t want to talk about. The Indigo Collapse: Not “Operational Issues,”...
In a country obsessed with speed, scale, and square footage, it took one industrialist’s quiet walk through a quiet village to make the nation look up—and slow down. Anand Mahindra didn’t visit Kadamakkudy with a project proposal, a factory blueprint, or a CSR banner flapping in the wind. He came...
Why India Let IndiGo Watch the Chaos While Citizens Paid the Price In 2009, a crisis hit a small Russian town called Pikalyovo. Factories shut down. Salaries unpaid. Families starved. A billionaire oligarch played games while workers suffered. Vladimir Putin didn’t issue a statement. Didn’t set up a task force....
For years, Arnab Goswami was seen as the loudest shield of the Modi–BJP ecosystem on prime-time television. Mistakes were ignored, failures were reframed, and uncomfortable questions were redirected — usually towards the opposition, history, or imaginary enemies. If the government slipped, the studio lights somehow dimmed. Now suddenly, in the...
