Category "Fraud"

Dhurandhar Part One: When Cinema Becomes the Propaganda Department

A long Easter weekend. Four days of silence, rest, and finally some time to watch the films that everyone has been arguing about. Good Friday rolling into Easter Sunday, and abroad — unlike India — Sunday leave spilling into Monday as compensatory time off. That is a workplace culture India...

The Ceasefire Nobody Asked For: How Pakistan Delivered America’s Demands—and Iran Tore Them Apart

When reports say Pakistan submitted a 15-point ceasefire plan, what they really mean is: 👉 The United States drafted the plan 👉 Pakistan delivered it to Iran 👉 Iran basically said: “Return to sender.” Pakistan didn’t suddenly wake up and decide to mediate global war. It has been positioning itself...

Ballot Machines vs Paper Ballots: The Question That Returns Every Election in India

Every election season in India brings with it a familiar debate. Not about policies. Not about development. But about the voting machine itself. The moment results start surprising political parties, one question rises again and again: “Can the voting machine be trusted?” Opposition parties claim the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs)...

The Ganesh Kumar Controversy: Personal Scandal, Political Pressure, and Questions of Power

Kerala politics recently witnessed yet another controversy involving Transport Minister K. B. Ganesh Kumar, a senior leader of Kerala Congress (B) and a key ally of the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) government. What started as a personal dispute inside his family quickly turned into a political issue, raising questions...

AI’s Red Lines: Anthropic’s Stand Against the Pentagon and OpenAI’s Shadowy Victory

In the high-stakes arena of artificial intelligence, where code meets conscience, a seismic rift has opened between innovation and national security. Last July, Anthropic signed a landmark $200 million deal with the Pentagon, embedding its Claude AI into classified networks—complete with ironclad “red lines” barring mass surveillance and autonomous weapons....

AI Isn’t “Artificial” Anymore. It’s Alien. And That Changes Everything.

For decades, we called it Artificial Intelligence like it was some clever human-made calculator with extra attitude. But Yuval Noah Harari calls it something far more accurate — and far more terrifying: Alien Intelligence. Because AI is not becoming “smarter like humans.” It is becoming powerful in a way humans...

The Invisible Strings: How Cloud + AI Might Be Our Greatest Power and Biggest Fragility

Today’s IT world looks like a sci-fi film that got auditioned by venture capitalists. Cloud networks and AI systems aren’t just technologies anymore — they are the critical nervous system of global business, finance, and society. But when the nervous system twitches, the whole body feels it. Two forces dominate:...

Kerala MPs and the Missing MP FUND Money — The Question Mainstream Media Avoids

Every election season in Kerala feels like a festival of promises. “Development.” “Roads.” “Jobs.” “Change.” “People first.” But once the elections are over, one uncomfortable question quietly disappears from public discussion — and mainstream media rarely brings it up with seriousness: How much of the MPLADS (MP Fund) money did...