One-line truth: This was not a routine local body election. This was a political mood scan — and the results are uncomfortable for the Left, energising for the UDF, and strategically encouraging for the BJP. What actually happened (minus the noise) The UDF made a strong comeback across panchayats, municipalities,...
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...
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”...
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,”...
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...
Why Corruption Is Finished in Some Places—and Comfortably Extended in India. By Nishani Corruption exists everywhere. What separates nations is not honesty—but how fearlessly they end the story. Some countries close corruption files with punishment. Others keep them open just long enough for power to rearrange itself. This is that...
Nehru has been dead for more than six decades. Yet in 2025, India’s ruling party behaves as if he is still sitting across the table, blocking files and plotting setbacks. That alone should make us pause. Because when a government keeps fighting a man who cannot speak back, the fight...
“When the law loses, God enters, sister… Sometimes as a road divider, sometimes as a stray dog. Let truth win.” That one line hits harder than a court verdict delayed by 8 years. This is not poetry. This is not philosophy. This is brutal street-level reality. We like to believe...
Let’s stop speaking in hints and metaphors. Let’s name names. Let’s put party labels on faces. Let’s tear off the polite wrapping. At the wedding of Naveen Jindal’s daughter—Naveen Jindal, industrialist-turned-politician, BJP Member of Parliament—three women danced together on stage, smiling, rehearsing, enjoying themselves like close associates: Kangana Ranaut –...
