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The Cultural Trauma of Dhurandhar: Why ‘Arfa Khanum’ Can’t Reconcile with the New Reality
The hysterical backlash against Dhurandhar has nothing to do with “politics” or even “Pakistan-bashing.” It’s a full-blown cultural trauma for a particular generation of commentators—the ones personified by the classic ‘Arfa Khanum’ archetype. She’s not critiquing a movie. She’s mourning. Mourning the sudden, violent death of the comforting moral universe that Bollywood spent decades constructing,…
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The Two reasons why they don’t want you to watch Dhurandhar!
[Spoiler Alert – The post has spoilers from the movie. If you would like the read the review without the spoilers, here is one – Dhurandhar—The 3.5-Hour Epic That is Filling Theaters in the UK: A Non-Spoiler Review] Why has the film Dhurandhar generated such an unprecedented hue and cry? The reaction is a major cinematic…
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What the Aviation Crisis Reveals About Accountability in India’s Transport Governance
The recent meltdown at India’s largest airline, leading to thousands of cancellations, was a systemic failure—not just an operational blunder by a single carrier. While IndiGo’s lean staffing model was the immediate trigger, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) are the bigger culprits. The narrative that pins…
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Dhurandhar—The 3.5-Hour Epic That is Filling Theaters in the UK: A Non-Spoiler Review
I went into this film armed with the relentless barrage of negative chatter: jingoism, toxic masculinity, excessive violence, propaganda, too long. Every review seemed determined to warn me off. But I watch every Hindi film that screens here in Portsmouth, UK, and this one was different. For the first time in years, the theater was…
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Why India Desperately Needs Akasa Air to Survive and Thrive
The Indian aviation sector is on a tear, growing faster than almost any other large market on earth. In 2025 we will carry roughly 220–230 million domestic passengers — more than triple Australia’s ~60 million and closing in on one-third of America’s ~800 million. Yet the market structure is bizarrely concentrated: India today has almost…
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Why does the opposition keep losing elections one after another, and why does Modi keep winning them one after another?
Two very senior journalists – the kind who spent the last decade telling us that Modi’s victories were accidents, that 2014 was a “wave”, 2019 was “hate”, and that Congress still held the moral high ground – finally decided to ask the question everyone else answered years ago: Why does the opposition keep losing elections…
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Bihar 2025: The ₹15,000 Crore “Scandal” That Wasn’t – A Calm Breakdown
There is a storm on social media and news channels right now.Some are calling it the “biggest vote-buying scandal in Indian history”.Some are screaming that the Election Commission has become a BJP puppet.Some are mourning the death of democracy because money reached women’s bank accounts. I am going to show you the exact dates, exact…
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The Prashant Kishor Myth-Bust: Why Jan Suraaj’s “Failure” Exposes India’s Retarded Political Punditry
Stop the funeral music. Prashant Kishor isn’t dead—he’s the only adult left in a kindergarten of Indian political analysis. Jan Suraaj, his three-year-old baby, contested 243 seats in Bihar 2025 and won zero. The trolls are feasting, the TV anchors are cackling, and the WhatsApp uncles have declared him “exposed.” Good. Let them laugh. Because…
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