There are moments in political history when a single stupid sentence by a powerful man creates the exact enemy he feared. India just had one of those moments. And the ruling establishment, true to form, is making it worse with every panicked move it makes. The Judge, The Remark, The...
There is a particular kind of fraud that is far more dangerous than an outright liar. It is the half-truth teller — the one who picks real facts, frames them with real emotion, and then quietly buries everything that doesn’t fit the narrative. Dhruv Rathee has built a 20-million-subscriber empire...
You wake up every morning, go to work, file your ITR honestly, and watch 30 percent of your income disappear before it even hits your account. Meanwhile, the farmer-turned-politician sitting on 40 acres of “agricultural land” in Lutyens’ Delhi pays zero income tax. The BCCI earns over Rs 13,000 crore...
Pakistan is not supposed to do this. That is the honest first reaction. The country that has spent seven decades scrubbing its pre-Partition identity clean — renaming streets, demolishing temples, burying the cosmopolitan Lahore that once existed — has just done something that will make many Indians do a double...
The Helle Lyng episode is not about Modi. It is about what happens when inconvenient questions find no answer and an uncomfortable mirror. It started with nine words shouted across a hall in Oslo. During a joint press statement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr...
Tomorrow morning, May 18, 2026, at the Thiruvananthapuram Central Stadium, a man born in a modest home in Nettoor, Ernakulam, will place his hand on the Constitution and become the 13th Chief Minister of Kerala. Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka, Mallikarjun Kharge, Tamil Nadu’s new Chief Minister Joseph Vijay, Karnataka’s Siddaramaiah, Telangana’s...
There is a particular kind of political theatre that plays out every time a state election verdict turns in favour of the Congress. The votes are counted. The numbers are clear. And yet, for days — sometimes weeks — the real battle begins not in the streets but in closed...
More than 10 days after the massive victory of the Congress-led UDF in Kerala, the biggest question still remains unanswered — who will become the next Chief Minister? The shocking part is not just the delay. It is the open power struggle happening inside the party while the people who...
The Kerala Congress crisis has now become more than just a leadership tussle. It has turned into a public display of confusion, power struggles, lobbying, and internal insecurity at a time when the party should have been celebrating a historic political comeback. More than ten days after the election mandate,...
As of May 11, 2026, the world is witnessing one of the most dangerous geopolitical situations in recent years. The conflict involving the United States, Israel, and Iran is no longer just a Middle East issue. It has now become a global power struggle involving China, Russia, Gulf nations, oil...
