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At a time when vandalisms are resorted to, FIRs are registered, and harsh actions are taken to strangulate the fundamental right to expression, the Supreme Court’s reminding the police, judges, and governments on March 28, 2025 that they are duty bound to protect freedom of expression under article 19(1) of the Constitution of India, is significant.

'Gaddar nazar who aaye' and 'Khoon ke pyase baat suno'. Two songs, one which stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra sang to target Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and the second, playing in the background when Congress Rajya Sabha MP Imran Pratapgarhi attended a mass wedding in Gujarat and somebody took objection to the song. In the case of Kamra’s 'Gaddar nazar who aaye', the entire Shiva Sena (Shinde) is baying for Kamra's blood.

A video shared by the Supreme Court on March 22, which allegedly shows burnt cash in a store room in the residence of Justice Yashwant Varma, a Delhi High Court Judge who has since been repatriated to Allahabad, has shocked the nation. The amount must run into crores from the looks of it. But it is established that there was a fire in his outhouse and his family and staff had called the police. Someone took video and pictures of the burnt cash being doused by the fire fighters and this has come into the public domain from none other than the head of the judiciary, the Chief Justice of India. The CJI has ordered an enquiry by three judges.

NEW YORK: The fascist danger continues to escalate with Trump’s seeming defiance of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s order to delay the deportation of Venezuelan migrants accused of being gang members.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is known as the super salesman of jumlas. Beginning from Jan Dhan account of Rs. 15 lakh for everyone to generating two crore jobs for youth every year, all the hyped up propaganda of the BJP led government since 2014 have turned into a big flop. Even in the last few years, the BJP’s election machinery or the official agencies never mentioned these two promises of the Prime Minister. But his most talked about and ambitious programme was the Make in India announced soon after his take over at the centre, followed by US$ 23 billion Productivity Linked Incentive(PLI) scheme, the flagship of MII programme in 2021. Modi declared that India would be turned into a production hub of the world with the share of manufacturing going up to 25 per cent of the country’s GDP in 2025 as a result of implementation of Make in India programme.

With the US’ Damocles sword of reciprocal tariffs hanging over its head, the Modi government is surrendering instead of resisting. The US President Donald Trump explicitly stated that India would be on the list of countries subject to reciprocal tariffs from April 2, irrespective of its good relationship with the US. The Modi government, instead of meeting this challenge, is ready to reduce tariffs on nearly 55 per cent of US goods and in the process sacrifice Indian interests.

BJP led governments, both in the Centre and Indian States, have been continuing ‘bulldozer actions’ which they claim as doing justice against those people who they make accused in the police FIRs.BJP governments thus become accuser and judge both, which is clearly extrajudicial activity violating the principle of justice itself, and hence are miscarriage of justice. They are even violating the recent Supreme Court directives against demolition of properties of people accused of rioting, arson, and other crimes, without going through any judicial process, and simply by executive orders, which are unconstitutional and illegal.

LONDON: The European Union fears another WAR and has asked its citizens to stockpile enough food and other essential supplies to sustain them for at least 72 hours in the event of a crisis. The EU Commission has said this in new guidance released Wednesday. The commission stressed the need for Europe to shift its mindset, to foster a culture of “preparedness” and “resilience.”

‘Speculation’ is the most common pick-up from the English dictionary. If you don’t know what’s happening, ‘speculation’ comes into play. For journalists to fall back on ‘speculation’ to not to make a point comes natural. Right now, there is speculation that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin doesn't have an inkling on what's happening between the BJP and the DMK, which are “in talks”.

RSS pratinidhi which concluded in Bengaluru last Sunday made a tactical shift from Hindi imposition to learning of English as a “career language”. This was certainly an implicit endorsement of the political line of Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin that demanding linguistic equality is a right, not an offence. This RSS view differs with the line which the union home minister Amit Shah is taking.