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Even before Narendra Modi and Amit Shah along with the Sangh leadership could strike at the root of Mamata government and her party, Mamata Banerjee as the retaliatory incursion has struck hard with the West Bengal cabinet deciding to amend law to make her Chancellor of state-run universities. Modi government has been resorting to all sorts of machinations to destabilise the Mamata government and make her exit from the political scene. Nevertheless the latest move of Mamata Banerjee heralds a direct war against Narendra Modi using the Governor, Jagdeep Dhankar as a proxy target. The decision was taken by the state cabinet on May 26.

With Assembly elections only eight months away, the ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) in Tripura is not yet a united house. The central BJP leadership may have sought to combat negative anti incumbency trends among common voters by replacing Mr Biplab Deb as Chief Minister by his colleague Mr Manik Saha., but that has not helped the saffrons much upto now.

Car companies in India are already creating waves about the launch of electric vehicles, with nearly a dozen brands expected to hit the road in a year’s time. Joining the EV bandwagon are all major automakers, including Hyundai, Tata, Mahindra, Mercedes etc.

With the world waking up to the possibility of the temple-mosque disputes in India becoming yet another religious flashpoint, as the BBC has said, the worst fears of the country’s well-wishers are coming true.

The Supreme Court order of May 20, transferring the suit on the Gyanvapi masjid dispute from the civil judge (senior division) Varanasi to the district judge casts aspersions, though unintended, on the competence of civil judges in general.

Eight years of NDA Union Government’s misgovernance since 2014 has plunged the nation into the vortex of communalism, hatred, religious polarization, divisive/majoritarian politics, ever rising unemployment, growing inflation, farmer crisis and economic down turn as never before, making India a dystopia, a society characterized by human misery, squalor, oppression and disease. Besides, the Prime Minister made India communal and authoritarian. Minorities bashings/targeted violence against minorities have been institutionalized by ruling RSS Pariwar as state cruelty and nationalism are used to divide society for political gains. Resonance of Nazi Germany can be seen in politics today. Poor have been marginalized. Damage to Indian democracy under the PM is lasting. India has transformed into an illiberal, majoritarian and intolerant country. Far from ground reality, Government has been surviving on headline management, propaganda and fake news.

No need to get fancy or clever in paying tribute to Ray Liotta, who died suddenly in his sleep at age sixty-seven. This one really hurts.

In 2020, the present NDA government, while bringing three farm laws said they are intended to facilitate fair markets and enhance farmers’ incomes. But the government acted exactly in the opposite by banning exports all of a sudden, when the global wheat prices are attractive and watered down the hopes of Indian wheat farmers.

To talk of coincidence, ‘Geetanjali’ has got lucky for a second time in a hundred and ten years. In the first time, Rabindranath Tagore’s book of poetry, Geetanjali, won him a Nobel Prize in literature. Now, a century and more later, another Geetanjali, the Hindi writer of stories, is awarded the hugely prestigious International Booker Prize for literature.

After the newspaper report with the picture showing the IAS couple watching the dog take a walk in the stadium, the Ministry of Home Affairs transferred Sanjeev Khirwar to Ladakh, and Rinku Dugga to Arunachal Pradesh, separating the couple, and punishing the dog for being the reason for their separation. The decision that will mar the careers of the IAS couple, and dog them for the rest of their lives, is also a dog whistle to the powerful in the higher echelons of the bureaucracy.