Western media spinning a sinister narrative on India

April 9, 2024

Western media’s love-hate relationship with India—in reality, “love to hate India”—has existed for a long time. But earlier, it was not very pronounced, and stayed confined to their belief of India as just another third world country, which is also a cauldron of communal and caste hatred. For those who...

Women labour force participation must increase

April 4, 2024

India has a steep target of achieving Viksit Bharat status by 2047, the centenary of India’s Independence. Twenty-three years from now, Prime Minister Narendra Modi believes that it is possible for India to achieve a developed nation status if it takes the right steps. To achieve this, he says that...

Is State Department trying to ruin US-India ties?

April 2, 2024

There is something intrinsically negative about the word “monitor”, when used in the context of international relations. There is an element of superiority involved, with the monitor being superior to the subject it is “supervising” or “overseeing”—an entity that is in some sort of a crisis, or is straying from...

China is paying the price of embracing Pakistan

March 28, 2024

Pakistan is witnessing a resurgence of violent attacks. In the last few days, there have been two major incidents, both allegedly carried out by Baloch freedom fighters. One was the attack by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) on the PNS Siddique naval air base, Pakistan’s second largest, in Turbat in...

State of India-U.S. relations

March 19, 2024

At times it is not clear whether the US administration is plain ignorant in its foreign policy dealings, specifically when it comes to India, or just duplicitous. Or is it actually a case of US government departments and individuals working in silos, running their own agendas, without caring for the...

Time to temper the election rhetoric

March 12, 2024

Strange sound bites are coming from almost all political parties, now that campaigning for the general elections has started, even though the dates are yet to be announced. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in particular has been making assertions that, if taken...

Taiwan Shouldn’t Spoil Qwn Image

March 5, 2024

A troubling aspect of India’s relations with the island nation of Taiwan is out in the open and has the potential to drive a wedge between the two, unless handled with care. The issue is about racial discrimination. Last year, in November, soon after a media report said that Taiwan...

Being brazen in Bengal

February 29, 2024

It has been around three weeks that horror stories of sexual abuse, landgrab, violence and torture have surfaced in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali, a remote village in North 24 Parganas district near India’s border with Bangladesh. The brave women of Sandeshkhali have come out of their homes to demonstrate against the...

Rahul Gandhi Needs to Look Within

February 22, 2024

What has happened to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi? Why are his speeches getting increasingly inflammatory and controversial? The statements he has been making during his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra and the aggression he has been displaying, have been raising many eyebrows, apart from having negative consequences. One such negative consequence...

Has Congress given up on 2024?

February 20, 2024

It is increasingly looking like the Congress has given up on the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. At a time when the party should have been finalizing seat sharing details with its allies, zeroing in on candidates, and implementing its election strategy—provided it has a strategy—Rahul Gandhi, the de facto boss...