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In defence of PM Modi
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In defence of PM Modi

In the small but voluble precincts of the Indian Internet, specifically, the corner of X formerly known as Twitter, where men with saffron-tinted display pictures and bios reading ‘Civilizational Hindu | Anti-Woke | Follow Back’ hold court, a curious consensus has emerged. Narendra Modi, the man under whose government the Ram Mandir got built, the […]

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Rahul Gandhi wasted another Parliament session
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Rahul Gandhi wasted another Parliament session

Think of your childhood and tell me what your mother would have done if you had brought your friend’s remote control car to your home without asking him. Stopped you, right? That’s the rule. This is exactly what has happened with the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. Gandhi wanted to break a rule of the Parliament […]

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UGC guidelines are not the first, and they will not be the last
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UGC guidelines are not the first, and they will not be the last

Voter Apathy I have generally avoided writing on UGC guidelines except a couple of posts intended to wake up the GC warriors to what they are doing. UGC guidelines are evil. Group guilts and group innocence, and presumption of guilt till the accused proves himself innocent, and he has to stay in jail till he […]

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The manufacturing of a Mahatma and the father of the nation
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The manufacturing of a Mahatma and the father of the nation

If I ask you to think about Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi is the father of our nation would definitely top the charts of your brain. A website (mkgandhi.org) maintained by two Gandhian institutions: Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal and Gandhi Research Foundation, also repeats this statement. However, it states a lie as well. It says, ‘… Constitution of […]

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How TMC made India look down during Messi’s GOAT tour
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How TMC made India look down during Messi’s GOAT tour

Messi’s three-day GOAT India Tour concluded on 15 December. During this, La Pulga (Spanish for The Flea) visited four cities: Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai and New Delhi. While the other three cities didn’t make much news on social media. It was Kolkata that made headlines. The reason was the state government’s mismanagement and administrative immaturity in […]

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From Patna to power: Nitin Nabin's gambit
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From Patna to power: Nitin Nabin's gambit

On the very day Rahul Gandhi stood at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan on 14 December, raising the allegation of so-called “vote theft” during the Vote Chor, Gaddi Chhod rally, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced the appointment of 45-year-old Nitin Nabin from Bihar as its National Working President. This was no coincidence. It was a carefully […]

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When Nehru betrayed Patel
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When Nehru betrayed Patel

They say people realise the value of an individual only once he or she is gone. Alas, this cannot be said for India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel died on 15 December 1950. Within an hour of his passing, Nehru instructed his ministers and secretaries not to attend Patel’s funeral; he withdrew […]

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INDIA Bloc doesn't want the judiciary to uphold the Constitution
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INDIA Bloc doesn't want the judiciary to uphold the Constitution

Everything about the recent impeachment notice submitted by INDIA bloc MPs against Justice GR Swaminathan, a judge of the Madras High Court, is shameful. Signed by over 100 MPs, the notice was triggered by his direction to the management of a temple to light a festival lamp on a stone pillar located close to a […]

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Why Mamdani is bound to fail like Kejriwal
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Why Mamdani is bound to fail like Kejriwal

Gracie Mansion—the official residence of the Mayor of New York City—got its new occupant on 4 November 2025. The name is Zohran Mamdani, an Indian-origin Muslim, who once protested alongside some Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) supporters against the attempt to construct the Ram Mandir atop the ruins of the Babri Masjid. This is the same masjid […]

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What the Kashmiri Muslims’ boycott of Sonu Nigam tells us
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What the Kashmiri Muslims’ boycott of Sonu Nigam tells us

Padma Shri awardee and one of the most versatile singers of Bollywood, Sonu Nigam, performed at the NDTV Good Times Concert, held at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC), Dal Lake, on 26 October 2025. However, the concert didn’t attract much audience. The reason lies in a boycott campaign started by a Kashmiri Muslim and […]

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How Communism and Islamism kept Hinduism on defensive
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How Communism and Islamism kept Hinduism on defensive

This United Front—Islamism and Communism—functions mostly at a psychological level. But it presents itself as a political alliance also whenever specific issues affecting the welfare of Hindu society come up before the Parliament or are debated in public. The United Front between Islamism and Communism has been in existence and active since the early forties […]

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