Who are the MPs' delegations meeting on their taxpayer-funded excursions? So far, no sizeable head of state has met them. All they do is garland Gandhi's statue; meet the Indian ambassador; have "interactions" with embedded diaspora; give soundbites to ANI and PTI. There is zero

"If any citizen of India had leaked such information in a situation of war to the enemy, we would be guilty of the highest possible form of treason and would earn ourselves very long terms in jail": Ajay Sahni on Dr. S. Jaishankar's claim of informing Pakistan. Watch:

𝟏𝟓 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐀𝐩𝐩 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐄𝐀 (𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐌𝐎) 1) How many titular or executive heads of the countries---presidents, prime ministers,

Just another day in "Japan".

🕉️ Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, former BJP MP booked in dozens of cases including attempt to murder, is a free man ☪️ Umar Khalid, scholar and campaigner for civil rights and social equality, remains in jail Obvious but necessary lead in 'The Telegraph'. The Telegraph Sankarshan Thakur

Not politics, not war. 'Malayala Manorama' puts the successful circumnavigation of the globe by Lieutenant Commanders Dilna K of Kozhikode and Roopa Alagirisamy of Puducherry, on its front page. The duo did the voyage of 25,400 nautical miles over eight months. Manorama Online

"Colonel Sofiya Qureshi will be the "poster girl" of the BJP's minority wing outreach to mark the 11th anniversary of the Narendra Modi government" A textbook example of how BJP is using every institution for electoral gains---and how the armed forces is playing along.

When a country loses expensive fighter aircraft, each worth in excess of Rs 1,600 crore, in a skirmish with an enemy country, what is most important for citizens in a democracy to know? #RafaleDown

Operation Indoors: 'The Telegraph' reports that the "RSS has redoubled its efforts to rein in the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duopoly". The Telegraph

Four-four-ka-one: First day in school for quadruplets Ayaan, Azaan, Aisin and Azwin. The four boys were born to Mubina and Mohammed Mustafa of Palakkad district in Kerala in January 2021. They are entering LKG. Manorama Online

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"In its growing communal segregation, increasing religious tensions, the mounting assertiveness of vegetarians, and attacks on its cosmopolitan instincts, India closely resembles Gujarat" Commentary in The Economist on the Gujaratification of a once-great nation. #GujaratModel

"You need to create two new Americas in the next five decade. You need to create a Chicago every five years." Bullshit on toast, tadka maar ke, with peri peri on top, from India's G20 scarepa. Mint 👇🏾