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There's this theory going around that the Congress, wherever it has fought elections in recent years, from Haryana to Maharashtra, and now Bihar in the offing, it fought with its INDIA bloc allies more than with the BJP, the party to beat if the INDIA Bloc has to oust Prime Minister Narendra Modi from power, which is what's indispensable.

It is bizarre that the Ayodhya and Kashi issues have again started unravelling. These questions remained in suspended animation with orders from the highest judiciary. For many, the Ayodhya verdict was an enigma with the apex court order that those who criminally destroyed Babri Mosque were in fact, to be rewarded with ownership, and facilitated in construction of the Ram Temple. Significantly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi underlined this judicial validation while inaugurating the Ram Mandir. Obviously, in contrast, we had to clearly state that the Supreme Court had ‘delivered a verdict, but not justice’.

For most of independent India’s history, Ladakh symbolised peace, resilience, and patriotism. It has stood firm at the nation’s northern frontier, both geographically and ideologically. Yet today, the region finds itself in turmoil. What began as a peaceful demand for constitutional safeguards has spiralled into violent clashes—an alarming development in a border region where national security and democratic stability are deeply intertwined.

“He (Gandhi) stopped at the threshold of the huts of thousands of the dispossessed, dressed like one of their own. He spoke to them in their language, here was living truth at last, not quotations from books. For this reason, the ‘Mahatma’, the name given to him by people of India, is his real name. Who else has felt like him that all Indians were his flesh and blood? ...When love came to the door of India, that door was open wide –at Gandhi’s call, India blossomed forth to new greatness, just as once before in earlier time, when Buddha proclaimed the truth of fellow feeling, and compassion among all living creatures.” The words are from Rabindranath Tagore, and in history, there were only very few like him, as Albert Einstein wrote about Gandhi, “Generations to come, will scarce believe that such a one as this, in flesh and blood, walked upon this Earth.”

India is showing sharp rise in public way obstruction cases. In 2023 it rose to 151469 just from 93,548 in 2022. There has also been 7.2 per cent rise in registration of cases. Indian Penal Code (IPC) crimes rose by 5.7 per cent while Special and Local Laws (SLL) crimes rose by 9.5 per cent, which shows shifting nature of crime in the country.

Bill Gates’ recent revelation about how a critical recruitment drive of fifteen Indian engineers had once saved Microsoft from slipping into irrelevance comes at a time when the United States under Donald Trump is imposing restrictive visa measures that are designed to block the very talent pool that had proven indispensable for America’s technological ascendancy.

Like one newspaper wrote, he's now a national security 'threat'. The threat in single quote-unquote, which makes it double the threat, our man.

The final electoral roll of Bihar after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) was published on September 30, 2025 after over a three months of exercise since it was announced by the Election Commission of India on June 24, but the controversy surrounding the SIR refuses to die. The opposition political parties and independent political analysts are still not satisfied with the outcome. They have alleged numerous discrepancies even in the final list and raising their fingers on the fairness of the ECI in conducting SIR exercise, while ECI has refuted the allegations.

As against forest cover target of 33 per cent of country’s geographical area needed for maintain ecological balance, increase in India’s forest cover is moving very slowly. Recorded forest area (RFA) during the last decade (2013-2023) has only slightly increased from 23.48 per cent to 23.59 per cent. Additional concern on this depleted forest cover is that forest regeneration is declining and fire risks are rising.

The nationalism of the ruling establishment of India has been reduced to jingoism, and touched a new low on Sunday night at Dubai. Under the direction of the Government of India, Indian team refused to take the Asia Cup 2025 trophy from Asia Cup Cricket Council president Syed Mohsin Raja Naqvi, who is also the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board and the federal Minister of Interior of Pakistan. Nevertheless, India captain Suryakumar Yadav said that the team had taken the decision not to receive the trophy and that “no one told us to do it”. His statement is not believed to be true in the light of other facts.