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There was a popular video recently by a young man named Dhruv Rathee, which irked the government’s supporters. Its broad argument may be understood by the title, which was “Is India becoming a dictatorship?” The examples used in the video included the recent rigging of...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s preferred lateral entry, introduced with much fanfare in 2018, received a lukewarm response and soon got passed over and forgotten. But Modi never dropped the ball. Now, lateral entry has made a formidable comeback as Modi’s second term comes to a...

The world media is stunned by a development in China that can be described as yet another example of the autocratic behaviour of China’s President Xi Jinping. He seems to be sending out the message to both his own people and the world that he...

On the day the Opposition put up a big show of unity in Patna 3 March for fighting the coming Lok Sabha polls together, the Narendra Modi government unveiled the grand action plan of ‘Vikshit Bharat 2047’ in New Delhi. This 25 long years vision...

As Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is all set to win yet another term in the Presidential election barely two weeks away, two things stand out in the country’s murky politics – the funeral of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny who died in prison and Putin’s...

Two back to back incidents that were reported in India recently have once again raised a key question – are foreign tourists, especially women, safe in this country. In the first incident, a Dutch tourist to Puri had to spend over a month in a...

Next year, the world’s largest NGO or non-governmental organisation marks its centenary. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was founded in 1925 at a single shakha in Nagpur and today, according to its website, has over 57,000 daily shakhas across India. RSS says it does not keep...

Almost 60 per cent of empanelled IAS officers just got the nod as secretaries and equivalents, and most of them are getting a five-year stint. This is Modi Sarkar’s way of providing long tenures to high-ranking officials so that they can sink their teeth into...

India had to bear with on an average two anti-Moslem hate speech events per day in 2023 and not surprisingly three in every four of those events – or 75 per cent – occurred in states ruled by the BJP. More significantly, the flurry of...

The All India Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2022-23 report released on 24 February throws up interesting facts and figures about the patterns and preferences of different food items being consumed by rural and urban India. But, its timing and the main drift of the findings...