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The Cockroach That Shook the Government

In the summer of 2026, a satirical Instagram post about being called a cockroach turned into one of India’s most talked-about youth movements in years. It forced a Union minister to resign, put lakhs of anxious... By Team

Cover Story

Tablighi Jamaat : 1000 years of revenge...

Two contradictions are evident. Through April and May this year, the government vilified Tablighi Jamat, a social organization that claims to be apolitical but has deep religious roots.... By Vivek Mukherji

WINDS OF CHANGE...

ADVERTISING : The name itself conjures up exciting images. Passion. Glamour. Celebrities. Parties. To name just a few. These signals are enough for any bright youngster to dream about t... By Gopinath Menon

THE ECONOMIC ROULETTE WHEEL...

THE wheel spins, swings, and sweeps in a frenzied manner. The economic ball jumps, bobs, a...

By Alam Srinivas
SYSTEMS FAILURE, SITUATION CRITICAL...

ONE of most quoted allegories of incompetence for a person holding high office is that Ner...

By Vivek Mukherji
COSMIC DANCE, WORLDLY TRANCE...

Faith, Lies & Tall Tales The COVID-19 disease is caused by the SARS-CoV2 virus. It spr...

By Alam Srinivas
SELLING FAMILY SILVER...

Faced with an existential challenge of continuing to shoulder the humungous exercise of op...

By Srinand Jha
Kejriwal: A political revolutionary or Machiavelli...

THE incandescent halo of Anna Hazare has dimmed like the smouldering ashes of a fire that ...

By Vivek Mukherji
Much ado about nothing...

Narendra Modi’s style of diplomacy was again showcased in Houston. It is audacious to repl...

By Seema Guha

Governance

Open Letter: Demand for Full VVPAT and EVM Cross-V…

To The Cheif Election Commissioner, We believe you should follow up the declaration of results of th... By CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM

Will One Nation One Poll divide North and South In…

One Nation one poll reportedly is a design of BJP to concentrate on North India and Increase the sea... By Jayanta Bhattacharya

Kamala v/s Trump : Debate between “prosecutor and …

Vice President Kamala Harris is prepping up for the September 10 debate Tuesday to cover the lost gr... By TN ASHOK

State Scan

Vivek Joshi will be the New Chief Secretary of Haryana

Vivek Joshi, a 1989 batch #IAS officer of #Haryana cadre in all probab...

Bhagwant Mann V/S Kejriwal: Fight to Finish

Bhagwant Mann’s personal inadequacies —persistent lies, inaccessibilit...

Udhayanidhi as Deputy CM Tamil Nadu: Rebuff to Sabareesan

Why Stalin chose his son Udhayanidhi to run the DMK empire ignoring hi...

Global Scan

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US media is going to two with the ” Garbage” and ” Latino ” controversy

US President Joe Biden is now campaigning in Baltimore, near Washington DC, and reacted sharply to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s remark of Puerto Rico, people with Latinos, as a ” floating island of garbage”. Biden said the remarks were un-American and…

By TN ASHOK

Politics

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Will BJP be able to retain back 23 out o…
There are 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra. This time Lok Sabha elections are going to be held in f...

By Team

Yadav V/S Jats : Fierce fight in Bhiwani
Can you imagine that Bhiwani of Bansilal, the so-called ‘Vikas Purush’ of Haryana, can be a terrible...

By Special Correspondent

Robert-Vadra
The man above law?
Whosoever said “rules are for fools,” probably had Robert Vadra in mind. That is because seemingly t...

By Neeraj Mahajan

Rahul-Gandhi
The makeover of Rahul Gandhi
WITH great power comes great responsibility. The Gandhi surname in politics comes with fame, fortune...

By Anil Tyagi

Narendra-Modi Indian PM
Presidential poll in Gujarat
THE presidential poll in Gujarat has just concluded. No, no, you will rudely interrupt, there was no...

By MK Kaw

Social upsurge
THE outcome of the fiercely contested Bihar assembly polls has given a new direction to Indian polit...

By VIJAY SANGHVI

Bric A Brac

Kingmaker needs flesh...

It is quite intriguing to observe how politicians become Cabinet Ministers and C...

By Team
Dharavi Goldmine...

Dharavi. The moment one hears the name, a picture of ghastly slums and the den o...

By Team
CPM : Let Mamta be defeated first !...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is in a fix as only 10 months are lef...

By Team
Finally, BJP needs media...

NDA 3 or Modi 2.0 has completed one year but the BJP leadership feels it has not...

By Team
North and South faceoff...

THERE is a kind of a lull in the non-stop chess game that’s played by different ...

By Team
Hooda, Tulsi in Rajya Sabha...

HOW did Deepender Singh Hooda, 42 and senior advocate KTS Tulsi, 72, newly elect...

By Team

By The Way

Prime Minister Narendra Modi
PMO overhaul

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reshuffled his office during the Covid-19 crisis. His Private Secretary Rajeev Topno, the 1996-batch IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre, has been appointed as senior advisor to World Bank Executive Director S. Aparna, a 1988-batch…

By Team