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Can Taliban 2.0 get Kashmir for Pakistan?
No body said it clearer than Neelam Irshad Sheikh, a leader of Imran Khan Niyazi’s Tehreek-e-Insaf party. A lot of people dismissed her expectations in a whiff, some made memes, some called her names, not just some ignorant people but the panelists on different news channels in India didn’t also take it seriously. These days…
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Badshah Babur defeated Shaybani Khan; but only in “The Empire”- the show.
The recently released Disney +Hotstar series “The Empire” has been in the news for obvious reasons. A lot of people seem to be complaining that it glorifies Babur. Does it? Yes it does. Is there a problem with that? There shouldn’t be.. unless the series that claims to or being advertised/marketed as to depict history,…
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Yogi’s ordinance on Love Jihad; a necessity or a pure evil?
There has been a lot of noise on the recently enacted ordinance by the Yogi government; the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, popularly known as the anti-Love Jihad Ordinance. Bureaucrats complaining, writing letters to the CM, retired IAS officers complaining about the law. Finally, after a lot of searching I…
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How is it like travelling to India during Corona?
When I was planning my trip to India this time, I had very similar kind of anxieties that I had when I travelled to Germany for the very first time: Do I have all the required documents? Did I miss anything? What is going to happen next? Travelling during corona re-invigorate the very similar feeling.…
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Petrol at 100; Is it the new normal?
For the past few years, I have been observing that the petrol prices in India do increase in proportion to the rise in the international prices, however when the international crude prices decrease the local prices don’t decrease in the similar proportion. It does sound unfair. Doesn’t it? This is the new normal I am…
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A tale of two states: Punjab, Kerala and Paddy cultivation
Although, the two states, Punjab and Kerala are different in a variety of ways, the geographical location, the size, the population, the people, the culture, the climate etc. but they have one thing exactly the same. The flawed and shortsighted agricultural policies eating the states from the inside. The incompetent agricultural policies running in the…
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Busting the myths and fake news regarding Contract Farming
An old friend of mine shared this video (use the hyperlink to navigate to the video) on Facebook, where a man explains why the bills are evil. You can find a lot of other such videos by the very same person on a youtube channel that goes by the name “The Nation”. I listened to…
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The reasons behind Rahul Gandhi’s obsession with Ambani, Adani!
If we follow Mr. Rahul Gandhi, it looks like whatever is happening in India or has happened in India in the last six years is Ambani’s and Adani’s doing. You don’t have to go by my words, you could have look at his twitter timeline or his speeches or his official statements, or whichever way…
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