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The Prime Minister went to Jerusalem for partnership gains, leaving the country’s plural memory and Palestinian solidarity behind. Days later, Israel and the US struck Iran. India’s West Asia balancing act may never be the same.
Simply put, the US exposed the present Indian ruling elite as frauds and comprador elements—basically, cowards and cynics. At one point, when Trump’s theatrics reached the high noon, he even boasted he could “end” Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political career.
Strategic petroleum reserves not very comfortable, Modi government’s surrender of energy choices to the US, and not passing on savings from cheaper Russian oil, mixing ethanol or low prices between 2014-2022, has cost Indian people dearly already. Also, extract from: ‘Modi: “India Stands with Israel” – Iran Briefing’.
The bogey of ‘forced’ conversion and the introduction of anti-conversion laws (strangely called ‘Freedom of Religion’) are part of a well-oiled strategy of the ‘Sangh Parivar’. These laws are blatantly unconstitutional. On 5 March, Maharashtra became the 13th state to enact such a law.
‘Hollowing Out the Uniform of the Armed Forces’: The risk is not that military officers are religious, but that the institutions they man are beginning to look religiously positioned. Also: ‘Military Veterans Express Concern Over Serving Officers Publicly Associating with Godmen, Religious Events’.
Electricity is meant to be governed by regulation, not market volatility. Yet policy concessions and structural changes under the Electricity Act, 2003 have pushed power costs upwards, shifting the burden onto discoms and consumers.
As youth unemployment hits a record high, Himachal Pradesh is quietly replacing permanent recruitments with temporary “Mitra” roles – a new model of gig-style governance, one that leaves over 6.7 lakh jobseekers without security or timelines.
India’s linguistic diversity is being reframed as proof of an ancient cultural unity centred on Sanskrit, even though linguistic evidence points in the opposite direction.
The recent surge of foreign investment in India’s banking sector is driven mainly by India’s falling net FDI and external financial pressures. The authors warn that opening banking further to foreign capital could increase instability and India’s dependence on global finance.
In 2002, when larger media organisations refused to publish allegations against Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, a small-town newspaper editor did. Ram Chander Chhatrapati paid with his life. This story revisits the extraordinary courage of local journalists who challenged a powerful godman.
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