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We are at a critical juncture in the relationship between the citizen and the State in India. The concept of individuals as rights-bearing citizens has been overshadowed by the State’s authority in every sphere, effectively reshaping the very foundation of democracy.

Thursday and Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, just this side of Parliament Street and a kilometre from Parliament House, which was not long ago claimed as "Waqf Property", will see a massive protest against the Modi Government's Waqf Board Amendment Bill, 2024, spearheaded by the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board, a body of mostly Muslim lawyers, clerics and Islamic scholars.

TORONTO: Last Sunday, a rally led by President Claudia Sheinbaum filled Mexico City’s central square, the Zócalo. It was not, however, a political party event, a historical commemoration, or a state of the union address. It was a national unity rally called in the face of ongoing tariff threats by US president Donald Trump. “I have said that we are a government of the people . . . and that whenever there was a need to inform or face adversity, we would be together,” she began. “And besides, we come from a great people’s movement that was created in public plazas, and here we are back with you.”

Returning empty-handed and crestfallen from his meeting with United States President Donald Trump, popular satirical comedian turned Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky looks more like a totally confused person now. He doesn’t know whom to trust — highly peeved US President Donald Trump or the leaders of the EU-UK combine, the backstage instigators who constantly propped him up to fight a losing battle with mighty nuclear armed Russia. Even after the globally-televised snubs he received from Trump and his Vice President James David Vance at a White House press conference after a tense Oval Office meeting, he had the cheek to confer with those European leaders, playing the fiddlers on the roof, on his return about the future of his country’s three-year old war with mighty Russia, especially after the massive death and devastation on its eastern front. Joker Zelensky is clearly at his wit’s end.

U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement of reciprocal tariffs on India starting April 2 has caused serious concern in New Delhi. India's high import taxes on American goods have long been contentious, now affecting trade partners.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday, March 10, 2025, raided several premises of former Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel as part of probe into a money laundering case involving his son Chaitanya Baghel, which Congress has alleged a part of BJP’s political conspiracy. Bhupesh Baghel’s office has said, if someone is trying to stop Congress in Punjab through this conspiracy, then it is a misunderstanding.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin’s protest against imposition of Hindi and his assertion that the state is “ready for another language war” is not merely politics, it is rather manifestation of assertion of Tamilian sub nationality. For him the move of Modi government to impose Hindi is a direct assault on the cultural and social ethics of the Tamilians.

United States President Donald Trump’s abusing global trade by tariff retaliation with countries having trade deficit has raised much hue and cry. However the magnitude of trade deficit with India is insignificant due to low stake (5 percent), as compared to Vietnam and China.

The Bihar assembly elections are still months ahead but why waste time? The Bharatiya Janata Party is in a hurry much before the elections. And it doesn't matter if Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues to cultivate his ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’ narrative, there is little evidence to prove that the Haryana, Maharashtra, the Uttar Pradesh bypolls and the Delhi assembly elections weren't won by fanning Hindu sentiments.

As if the tariff war against almost the whole world, leading among them China, Mexico, Canada, and India, hots up, it portrays the leading hero, Trump in this case, frothing at the mouth and cursing and cussing everyone, if he does not get what he wants, and shows a completely new and unacceptable face of the American democracy and diplomacy.