Category: Politics

  • The Cultural Trauma of Dhurandhar: Why ‘Arfa Khanum’ Can’t Reconcile with the New Reality

    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,…

  • The Two reasons why they don’t want you to watch Dhurandhar!

    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…

  • 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 does the opposition keep losing elections one after another, and why does Modi keep winning them one after another?

    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…

  • Bihar 2025: The ₹15,000 Crore “Scandal” That Wasn’t – A Calm Breakdown

    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…

  • The Prashant Kishor Myth-Bust: Why Jan Suraaj’s “Failure” Exposes India’s Retarded Political Punditry

    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…

  • The end of Tejashwi Yadav and the RJD

    The end of Tejashwi Yadav and the RJD

    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.…

  • 25 Seats, 25 Forts, 1 Vote Bank: The RJD Autopsy

    25 Seats, 25 Forts, 1 Vote Bank: The RJD Autopsy

    Tejashwi Yadav spent months dominating headlines with fiery rhetoric — promises of “10 lakh jobs by Diwali,” a slick “MY” rebrand (Mahila-Yuva, they claimed, though the old Muslim-Yadav scent lingered), and sharp jabs at “Sushasan Babu” Nitish Kumar. For a while, it seemed like Bihar was his to take. Then came November 14, 2025: counting…