The verdict of 2024 election by the people of our great country was a one that will be remembered in history for reasons that were born from a decade of experiments, misadventures, lies, polarization, selling false promises and reducing a whole nation to becoming a nation of one man worship to the level of insanity […]
Let people exert a free choice, fairly, Mr Prime Minister
When the Prime Minister of the country starts spewing hate speeches in his rallies, when he talks of mangal sutras in danger and household cash being distributed to infiltrators, (god knows where he has got it from), when he starts giving selective interviews to media outlets (ref to not a single Press Conference in 10 […]
Electoral corruption is the mother of all corruptions: SY Qureshi, former CEC
New Delhi: As general elections 2024 nears, there are many burning issues that may change the direction of not just the voters choice but India’s future as well. On stake is the government’s credibility, popularity and the question of how many seats will it be able to garner amidst this slugfest of democracy despite claiming […]
Farmers 2.0, Shahrukh and Putin, a blockbuster week
The farmers have marched back to Delhi with their demands, for which they sat on roads leading to the national capital with their tractors coverted into cabins for close 13 months in 2020-21 in the chilling months of winter. The protest is to nudge the govt to fulfill their demands of which making MSP legal, […]
National Security #Ep1
How is Indian Maritime Strategy unfolding
A La Lakshdweep vs Maldives
I may or may not be a Modi die hard fan but the recent India Maldives episode has made me sit up , dust my hands, adjusted my collars and say, ‘Yeh mera India, I love my India’. A social media post of PM Modi in Lakshadweep has turned the neighbor called Maldives, a hyper […]
The See Saw called 2023, some sparkles and some tears
Time is all powerful. It is said to be a healer and so I believe. Its never possible to talk of all what happened in the fleeting year in this small space but amplifying what have become memories will surely play some small role in glorifying them in the pages of history. As I pen […]
Can INDIA Alliance have a consensus PM candidate, anyone’s guess
New Delhi: INDIA Alliance had its 4th meeting in New Delhi on Dec 19, 2023. It was attended by 28 parties with all regional party leaders including Nitish Kumar, Stalin, Lalu Yadav, Mamta Baneerjee, Mehbooba Mufti, Farooq Abdullah, Arvind Khejriwal, Sitaram Yachury, Sharad Pawar, Sonia Gandhi & Rahul Gandhi. The meeting went on for around […]
A GHAR for three generations, Col Mickie Uberoi gives his all for the orphange
Photos Credit: Priti Prakash As I enter the iron gate of this seven storied modern complex which was housing residential accommodation rented out to people a couple of years back but later got vacated through a court order, by the owner Colonel Mickie Uberoi, (a non legal person), to build a dream ‘home’ that would […]