How the Dalit Vote will matter in Uttar Pradesh

Child sexual abuse on rise, during the lockdown

Many children are struggling with sexual abuse or have suffered from it, and gradually its figures are also increasing. During the lockdown, there was an unreasonable increase in child abuse. According to NCRB, 32,608 cases were registered in 2017. In 2018, it increased to 39,827. There was an increase of 4.5% in 2019 and a […]

#GujaratExplained in the Cabinet Reshuffle [Part II]

Caste is the King What’s your Caste. Tame Keva? Most BJP believers and followers defend their party dubbing it as a party with difference with no importance to caste. This is the biggest fallacy that BJP has successfully seeded for its perception management. The truth is that nobody knows caste calculations better than the RSS […]

GujaratExplained in the Cabinet Reshuffle [Part I]

Gujarat has never had it better. Not during the Congress led by Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi or UPA led by Manmohan Singh, Janata Party (secular) led by Charan Singh, Janata Party by Morarjee Desai, Janata Dal National Front by VP Singh, Janata Dal (United front) of Deve Gowda and I K Gujral,  Samajwadi Janata […]

VOI exclusive : Will this be the new cabinet of PM Narendra Modi?

Vibes of India has a list of names that have been nearly finalised for the new Narendra Modi cabinet.According to sources, Narendra Modi has discussed this list with his confidant and Home Minister Amit Shah.   Suspense is building over the new Modi cabinet that will be formally announced at 6 pm. Since the morning, […]

The First Khan was also a First Patriot

Life can be as bewildering as death. A sudden cataclysmic event, its origins wrapped in some game of dice beyond one’s imagination, with consequences beyond one’s control, can whirl you out of every possible preconception, throwing you into the unknown. Mohammed Yusuf Khan was 28 years old when India was partitioned in 1947, and his […]

A case of Mangubhai Patel, the new Governor of Madhya Pradesh

PM Modi’s political wisdom in Governor Appointments Behind every governor’s transfer, there has been a lengthy political debate and apt calculation. These days in India, Governors are no more cosmetic heads of the State. They play a critical role in various  manoeuvrings and manipulations as we all know. The appointment of Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel, 77, as […]

Memorial Mass of late Father Stan Swamy at Saint Peter’s Church, Bandra. [ Watch Live ]

The big fat Modi Cabinet Rejig

“Caste and political implications may be given more weightage than sincerity and experience”. Amidst the buzz of a cabinet reshuffle, a source in the know of these developments in Delhi claimed to Vibes of India (VoI), that this Union cabinet rejig is aimed at killing many birds with one stone. He gave us a few […]

Kashmir’s Childless Couples Suffer Silently

Shagufta Jan recalls a sunlit Saturday a decade ago, which she and her friends spent in Gulmarg, as one of the last happy days of her life. Soon after, B.Sc., the final year student, the eldest of her three siblings, was married off once she graduated from college. I was a happy-go-lucky girl,” a visibly frail […]

No, it’s not Narendrabhai; we are stupid

It is not just Narendra Modi and his government. Covid-19 has also exposed us in many ways as a society as disasters do. It brings out the best and the worst of us on the surface, spectacularly. And it is also leading us to question and review our existing thoughts, approaches and accepted wisdom. Actually, […]

Mondays with Manjul, June 28

Legacy weakens as BJP reigns in its regime

Political legacies are problematic to inherit, sustain and fulfil. The Congress has partially frittered away the redoubtable endowment bestowed on the Grand Old Party (GOP) by its founding fathers and mothers. The Socialists have disintegrated into so many splinters that it’s hard to assess which of the left-over entities remembers the original principles of the […]

From the PEN collection of Salil Tripathi

Salil Tripathi wrote this poem to mark Shobhaa De’s memoir, “Seventy and to hell with it,” published in 2018. He read it at the Festival of Poetry held by PEN San Miguel, alongside PEN’s Women Writers’ Committee.” After they told you and warned you again and again Specifically, generally, contextually and concisely, What you can’t […]

Sidhu’s eyes are set on ‘Captaincy’ of the Punjab Congress Team

Follow @AadeshRawal Follow @vibesofindia_ Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday met the three-member Congress party committee for the second time in Delhi and clearly stated that MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu cannot be made the party president. He also said that Sidhu needs to be stopped from talking to the media the way he […]