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Emergency declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi – an unprecedented democratic rupture in India’s republican history. Spanning from 1975 to 1977, the Emergency did not merely suspend democratic norms and undermine constitutionalism; it revealed, with brutal clarity, an authoritarian impulse cloaked in constitutional legality. While the immediate trigger was the invalidation of Gandhi’s 1971 election […]
Just hours after Narendra Modi denied claims of American mediation in halting hostilities between India and Pakistan, US President Donald Trump insisted he had “stopped a war” between the South Asian countries – even as he confirmed speaking with the Indian prime minister. Responding to a reporter’s question on his upcoming lunch with Pakistan’s army […]
The ruling BJP has not a single Muslim representative in parliament, and in the central Cabinet. The politics of the “nationalists” over the last decade especially, both at the centre and in the states they rule has been solidly rooted in Hindu consolidation. Prominent leaders of the party, such as Suvendu Adhikari in West Bengal […]
Hours after the Union government on Wednesday (April 30) announced that a caste census will be conducted along with the decadal census without providing any timeline for its rollout, leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said that the party welcomes the move as it has been a long-standing demand. While the […]
For as long as my living memory can recall, military presence has been an intrinsic part of Jammu and Kashmir’s landscape. After the 1990 insurgency, every inch of the land was mapped, particularly in the Kashmir region, and military presence became much more dense than it was during my childhood. Unless you moved to the […]
Five days after his eighteenth birthday, Abhishek Bhambi found himself pleading before a group of men, who ignored his cries and gave him electric shocks, while the others filmed a video of the act. Just beside Abhishek, his friend Vinod Bhambi, 18, was standing with folded hands and trying to reason with the people in […]
“Our embassy and consulates, they are in touch with the students to provide support,” the MEA said. New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has, for the first time, publicly stated that Indian students facing issues with their F-1 visas have reached out to Indian missions, which are providing them with “support”. The statement came […]
The NYT has noted that “the direct language” Modi has used against Muslims contrasts with the image he presents globally. In recent years, the Hindutva Right and BJP leaders have often used “puncturewalla”, a colloquial term for someone who repairs tyre punctures, as a slur against working-class Muslims in India. On Monday (April 14), Prime […]
Cases involving the technique of ‘digital arrest’ have spiked hugely in Gujarat. News reports quoting police data said 67 digital arrest fraud cases have come to light in just two months of 2025 alone. New Delhi: Two weeks after an elderly couple died by suicide in Karnataka’s Belgavi town after they were defrauded of Rs 60 […]
The prospect of the US teetering on the brink of autocracy would have been unthinkable just two decades ago. Yet, nearly two centuries ago, a young French scholar foresaw this potential unraveling. US President Donald Trump’s imposition of import tariffs, brandished like a banner of liberation, is a manifestation of mob rule. He presented these […]
The current economic slowdown that India is experiencing, and the chronic joblessness its youth is suffering from, make the quest for an economic model more pressing than ever. The trajectory of Gujarat has been presented by Narendra Modi as a “model” when he was at the helm of the state between 2001 and 2014, especially […]
New Delhi: When Allahabad High Court Judge Shekhar Kumar Yadav came under scrutiny for his communal and divisive remarks and hate speech, the Supreme Court collegium (SCC), headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna, came up short in disciplining him. Hype and strong words, most of them passed on off-the-record to a section of […]
New Delhi: In a display of transparency unparalleled in the history of the Indian judiciary, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjeev Khanna has made public the initial set of reports which form the basis for the Supreme Court initiating an inquiry into allegations that an unspecified amount of unaccounted cash was seen at an outhouse/store room in the […]
These days, Elon Musk seems to have taken Narendra Modi’s place. Earlier, there was a war over who is closer to Prime Minister Modi. Now, let there be a fight over who is closer to Musk, Mukesh Ambani or Sunil Bharti Mittal. As soon as the news came on March 11 that Mittal’s Airtel had […]
Any deconstruction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent podcast with Lex Fridman, a conversation driven by delusions and powered by platitudes, could be an offence to reason. But since journalists are expected to follow their leaders’ enterprises, even at the cost of consuming soporifics, we managed to salvage a few gems. Fridman begins the three-hour […]
New Delhi: Prime minister Narendra Modi has said that Gujarat had a long history of communal riots, even before he was “in the picture” and pointed to the “backdrop” of a spate of terror attacks before the violence to say that the perception that the riots were the biggest ever in the state was “misinformation”. He […]
New Delhi: Gujarat has emerged as a breeding ground for human trafficking agents an Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigation has found. The central agency has uncovered a network of 4,000-4,500 trafficking agents, of which 2,000 are from Gujarat alone, an ED official told the Telegraph. These agents are involved with at least 150 Canadian colleges that help people from India […]
Speculation is currently rife regarding Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath emerging as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s successor. At a recent event in New Delhi, he was even asked this question directly. But as long as Modi remains India’s prime minister, it will always be early to pose the question, ‘who after Modi’ or ‘who can […]
New Delhi: Starting April 1, 2026, income tax authorities will be able to access and scrutinise every person’s social media accounts, personal emails, bank accounts, online investment accounts, trading accounts and more. Authorities will be able to override access to digital platforms if they suspect that the individual has evaded income tax or if they have […]
New Delhi: At least 286 lions, including 143 cubs, have died in Gujarat over the last two years, state forest minister Mulubhai Bera informed the legislative assembly on Tuesday, March 4. In addition to that, 456 leopards, of them 140 cubs, have also died in 2023 and 2024 in the state, the Press Trust of India reported. […]
