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The god of subtle propaganda; Booker Prize winning author Arundhati Roy
While walking through the isles of a city library in England, I found myself staring at a name that sounded very familiar. I guess living in foreign countries for a long time does this to you, every time you see a brown person, or hear something in Hindi, or see an Indian name, you stop…
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The Kashmir Files – Part 2; why you should not watch it!
I hope you have already read the first part. You could have a look at that here: The Kashmir Files – Part 1. I had described my observations regarding the movie. It is not that The Kashmir Files is the only movie talking about Kashmir or a Genocide or terrorism or cruel things that humans do…
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The Kashmir Files – Part 1
[Disclaimer: The article is not a review of the film, it is a description of the author’s experience and what the author actually felt during and after the movie. ] At last I got a chance to watch the much talked about film The Kashmir Files. I saw it in a small city called Eindhoven…
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The downfall of Samajwadi Party and the end of Akhilesh Yadav’s political career!
Samajwadi Party officials have been claiming these days that the popular MY alliance stands for Mahila plus Youth and not Muslim plus Yadav. How nice! Not only this, they also claim that BJP has successfully created a perception that SP is only about Yadavs and Muslims. Lets check the stats from the last election in…
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Akhilesh Yadav’s SP will struggle to win 50 seats in the upcoming UP Elections 2022
I know what you must be thinking; this guy has gone crazy or is far away from the reality or maybe is an andh-bhakt. You might be thinking, hasn’t this guy seen any of the opinion polls? Literally everyone other than the people associated with BJP is claiming that it is a very tough, neck…
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PM Modi and CM Yogi, a big reason behind rising unemployment!
Unemployment! Unemployment!! and Unemployment!!! Ever since BJP came to power, unemployment has been an issue. In fact, BJP ruled government is the only government in the entire history of independent India, who has proudly taken away tens of millions of jobs and the bhakts have embraced this with open arms and with smiles on their…
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Atrangi Bhaiya Ji
[Disclaimer: This is a satire on the current state of electoral politics/campaigns in UP and not a movie review. Spoiler Alert!] I recently watched a Hindi movie Atrangi Re. Twenty five minutes into the movie, I realized that there are uncanny similarities between Rinku Suryavanshi, a character played by Sara Ali Khan, in the movie…
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Hindutva vs Hinduism; why now?
BJP is a communal party, the only way it can win an election is by brining Hindu, Hindutva and Hinduism in its election campaign. It uses its politicians and leaders to use Hinduism and Hindutva to polarize the elections. Maybe this time they asked Rahul Gandhi to polarize the elections. And Rahul Gandhi accomplished the…
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