Modi@11: three big challenges The biggest obviously is the complete dependence on US Big Tech The US has a monopoly control over technology and tech-business in India. The earnings from India of Google, Meta, Microsoft, X, Apple, Amazon and others are not even spoken about in

When Iran claims it has shot down an F 35 ( it claims three) and says the pilot has been captured the news is ignored by the western media , though the loss of F 35 to Iran is a massive blow to the reputation of this state of the art stealth aircraft. The treatment of this loss

ramachandranrajesh.blogspot.com Now, when Iran is being bombed for its efforts to build a nuclear weapon, India needs to pause and ponder that it was in a similar situation in 1974 --- a post-colonial nation inimical to the West trying to build a nuclear weapon to assert its sovereignty

Emergency, Regime Change and Iran No amount of for... Now, when Iran is being bombed for its efforts to build a nuclear weapon, India needs to pause and ponder that it was in a similar situation in 1974 --- a post-colonial nation inimical to the West trying to build a nuclear

Congress abandoning the linguistic aspect of Gandhian nationalism This is a moment when demands for deletion of the word secular from the Constitution’s preamble are being made by the Hindutva advocates. How can secularism be divorced from the idea of an Indian link language? If

Attacks against Hindi speakers are growing in Mumbai. Hindi and Hindi speakers are getting targeted in the south and now in the west. It’s time to take a relook at Mahatma Gandhi’s ideas about Hindi as a national link language. By remaining a mute spectator to the language wars

#TheHunt is an amazingly well-made, binge-worthy, web series on Sony LIV. Nagesh Kukunoor has told the story shorn off all frills, yet masterfully. The build up is slow but the tension increases as the scenes unfold and is maintained till the final credits roll. Then the series

A political scientist of repute claims Hindutva origins for the idea of Hindi as a national link language. Mahatma Gandhi set up the Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha in 1918 sending his youngest son Devdas Gandhi as a Hindi missionary to Madras —- that’s 7 years before even

The spirit of Delhi, made of thrice distilled waste Civic infrastructure needs accountability more than investment. Every road, drain, sewer line and streetlamp that fails ought to be paid by the contractor, the engineer, the babu and the politician --- the bigger the loss the

The spirit of Delhi, made of thrice distilled waste That is, the glittering half of the national capital is not responsible for the waste it creates and for the lives of those who clean the waste, often with bare hands without any equipment. This morally repugnant system should

Mending The Chinese Nets If Pakistan is China’s iron brother, then it is the West’s iron child. A sibling can develop rivalry, but a parent will never give up on its child. India has overlooked the West supplying arms and legitimacy to Pakistan all along, now it must ignore

Mending The Chinese Nets The media in India creates political and even diplomatic narratives. There were attempts to fashion a false bonhomie between India and Pakistan with certain individuals and media organisations beating the drums of people-to-people contact, exchange of

Dhankar, RSS and Retirement No Parivar insider envisages a change of guard at the Raisina Hill before 2029, if at all. The RSS appreciates all that the BJP has done for the organisation and understands the pitfalls of pushing its own government out of power as it happened in

Trump's Tantrums Are A Sideshow Trump’s insults, accusations and rants should only be seen in the light of a post-WTO continuum. His personal style and slights have little to do with all the bilateral treaties that are getting finalised all over the world. The UK, the UAE,

Wow!

This is “terrifying” indeed!

It Ain't About Trump, Tariff or Trade but Total Control Trump’s tariff bluster, hosting of the self-appointed tinpot Field Marshal and limiting of India’s sovereignty by imposing penalties on Russian oil should all be seen as an extension of the Western neocolonial hegemony

The Russia-India-China platform could easily replace the half-a-century old Indo-Soviet Treaty and bring in stability, peace and prosperity to the region. It is easy to forget that Soviet Union had lent a balancing pole in the post-War world. But for Soviet intervention, much of

Beware Of Sarama's Curse Rabies is a deadly reality but can be prevented by vaccination. To capture community dogs and to put them in cages is a Nazi Final Solution for the problem of corruption in vaccination programmes. open.substack.com/pub/rajeshrama…