There have always been times in history when politics has been seen standing at vantage points. Elections 2024 was one of them. Interestingly the maths in Parliament and Indian politics had an element of paradox. The descendence of Modi and BJP with a near half way majority of 240 seats in Lok Sabha and the ascendence of Rahul Gandhi and Congress with 99 seats, up from its lowest number a decade back, was hope inducing. The last 10 years, Modi ruled as a despot with socialist narrative and a capitalist approach. Everything was Modified. Schemes, government programmes, media, even Stadiums.
Indians misled into Russian Army services; Swiss Peace summit a tamasha: Russian Charge de Affairs Roman Babushkin
In the follow up of PM Modi’s Russia visit on the 8-9 July, Charge d’ Affaires of Russia in India, Roman Babushkin addressing media called the visit ‘historic and game changing’. He said that the world was watching it and it was a significant event between “two independent global powers.”
The murky road to Election 2024, full 10 years
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 […]