Indian Politics
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…
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,…
[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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Bihar has spoken, and the verdict is brutal: Tejashwi Yadav is finished. Not wounded, not regrouping—finished. The 2025 Assembly election didn’t just hand the NDA a landslide; it buried the RJD under 200+ seats of NDA concrete. From 75 seats in 2020 to barely 25 in 2025, Tejashwi’s political obituary is written in red ink.…
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