Category: India

  • The SHANTI Bill 2025 Explained: Nuclear Liability, Compensation, and the Politics Behind the Debate

    The SHANTI Bill 2025 Explained: Nuclear Liability, Compensation, and the Politics Behind the Debate

    The passage of the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill, 2025 in the Lok Sabha marks a fundamental reset of India’s nuclear doctrine. By repealing the outdated Atomic Energy Act, 1962 and the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage (CLND) Act, 2010, the government has cleared a path for a…

  • Why Dawood Ibrahim Cannot Be the Bade Sahab of Dhurandhar? Tracing Pakistan’s Military History!

    Why Dawood Ibrahim Cannot Be the Bade Sahab of Dhurandhar? Tracing Pakistan’s Military History!

    The shadowy figure known only as “Bade Sahab” is the central, unseen tormentor of the film Dhurandhar. He is the ultimate puppet master who connects the street-level drug trade of Karachi to the highest echelons of state-sponsored terror. The puzzle of his identity is brilliantly complicated by the film’s narrative structure, which suggests a constant,…

  • Fact vs. Fiction: What the film Dhurandhar Reveals About India’s Currency Security Crisis

    Fact vs. Fiction: What the film Dhurandhar Reveals About India’s Currency Security Crisis

    Theatres are currently alight with debate over Dhurandhar’s unflinching portrayal of Pakistan’s underworld. Yet, amidst the on-screen action, the movie drops a geopolitical bombshell: the assertion that the high-quality Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) flooding the Indian economy could only have been produced with inside help—specifically, by someone in India providing the blueprint of the…

  • What the Aviation Crisis Reveals About Accountability in India’s Transport Governance

    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…

  • Why India Desperately Needs Akasa Air to Survive and Thrive

    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…

  • The Sham of Indian Feminism: Absent from Cricket’s Triumph, Obsessed with Selective Outrage

    The Sham of Indian Feminism: Absent from Cricket’s Triumph, Obsessed with Selective Outrage

    The ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 was nothing short of a national epiphany. On November 2, 2025, in a finale that gripped the country like no other, the Indian women’s team etched their name in golden letters by winning their first-ever World Cup title, defeating a resilient South African side in a nail-biting contest…

  • From Dead Democracy to Dead Economy: Rahul Gandhi’s Imagination Is the Only Thing Truly Dead

    From Dead Democracy to Dead Economy: Rahul Gandhi’s Imagination Is the Only Thing Truly Dead

    For over a decade, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has navigated India through sweeping reforms and global uncertainties, solidifying its political dominance. Yet, Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party remain intellectually stagnant, rehashing the same tired tropes: “democracy is dead,” “unemployment is rising,” “minorities are under threat,” “EVMs are rigged.” Eleven years out of power,…

  • The ONE Reason behind the downfall of Kingfisher Airlines

    The ONE Reason behind the downfall of Kingfisher Airlines

    Recently, Raj Shamani flew to London to interview Vijay Mallya for his show Figuring Out. In the episode, Mallya opened up about the downfall of Kingfisher Airlines. Now, I do believe that a failed entrepreneur shouldn’t automatically be labelled a thief—businesses fail all the time. But I couldn’t help being disappointed by the podcast. It…