So engrossed, privileged and entitled were they in the sphere of arts, culture, education, higher academics, cinema, politics that a mere tap on their shoulder to remind them that we existed, terrified them to bits. A greeting, Jai Shri Ram sounded to them like a war cry. To

Bengal was like that can of worms which Mamata and her goons kept tightly shut with the help of a pliant media and police. The result on May 4 wrenched it open despite their best efforts. Now the worms just keep crawling out from a bottomless pit. It’s going to take years to

Wearing xtian identity on your sleeve = secularism Wearing hindu identity on your sleeve = hindutva bigotry The Indian champagne liberalati is not just pure idiot (and qtr-literate) as a cohort, they also take out liberalism as collateral damage of their idiocy..

“Do you think the rise of Hindutva will affect us as Muslims in the future?” your mother asked you, Zeba Zoariah My answer to her would be yes. Not as a threat, not as an apology, but as a reality. For too long, the Muslim identity in India has often been projected, and at times

Tilting at imaginary windmills. Without doubt Iran with a nuclear weapon will have a cascading effect in the region, with other countries seeking a nuclear capability too. But why different yardsticks for a suspected Israeli nuclear capability and Iran’s case whose nuclear

Republicans against Trump For Trump, the presidency is the side hustle, an ancillary business to support his money-making in other enterprises or grift operations. He uses the presidency's might to cajole, coax, and intimidate domestic and foreign entities to pay up. This is the biggest mafia organization

This article is historical. In fact, it is meta-historical. This is also Washington Post admitting defeat. ═══════ Opinion | Modi's electoral triumph cements his legacy - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

A superb piece on the asymmetry of proselytizing faiths vis-a-vis over religions that don't seek converts, by Avatans Kumar 🕉. The fact that this was carried in The Wall Street Journal is significant, since it initiates a much-needed pushback against predatory proselytization. 🧵

2.5 times in the 20th century - 1905, 1947, 1971 - there were massive communal riots (twice w/ genocide of hindus). But seems secularism is negated only when hindus seemingly consolidate...

History is made in Bengal. The BJP is finally in power in a state which it never expected to win. And to all those who swore this would NEVER happen in their lifetimes — move on… From being Left out, the BJP is Right in.

Perhaps he might revisit my response to one of his 2021 articles in which I reiterate that ‘Secularism cannot be a one-sided burden carried indefinitely by one community. If it is to endure, it must be upheld by all.’ NBD: Truth Hurts, But Lies Kill nandinibahri-dhanda.blogspot.com/2021/09/truth-…

Cud be clutching-at-straws syndrome, but random anecdotal survey of Calcuttans shows an unreal level of hope for the future. Its good and bad. Good coz optimism drives progress. Bad - sky-hi hope invariably leads to crushing disappointment. Hope Suvendu Adhikari finds a midas touch!

Dennis Ritchie created C in the early 1970s without Google, Stack Overflow, GitHub, or any AI ( Claude, Cursor, Codex) assistant. - No VC funding. - No viral launch. - No TED talk. - Just two engineers at Bell Labs. A terminal. And a problem to solve. He built a language that

Press reports fed by unnamed sources are appearing in our media about Track 2 talks being held between retired Indian generals and diplomats and their Pakistani counterparts in third countries . Lobbies, international and local, seem to be promoting such meetings and the idea

“Ex Army generals and retired diplomats from India & Pakistan have now met TWICE in the last three months, once in Qatar, once in another Asian capital for secret ‘ice-breaking’ talks.” The Indian Express calls it a ‘growing consensus’ for a back-channel, barely a year after

“I’m sorry, Sir. We tried. We think she’s been gone for at least fifteen minutes…” These words slip so easily from a doctor’s tongue, often sounding clinical and detached. Yet never were they spoken with deeper sadness than on that fateful Wednesday, October 17, 2012, when the

Hitler's Nero Decree redux. Issue is, its massively dependent on ideological fervour of Kim's followers - they shd be willing to commit mass seppukku becoz their overlord has been taken out. Big assumption...

For too long India has borne the burden of ‘journalists’ who lay claim to expertise across the economy, environment, geopolitics and foreign affairs - armed with little more than fluent English and a passing familiarity with the subject. Worse still, is their attempt at

“Every Hindu who leaves the Hindu pale is not one Hindu less but one enemy more" - guess who said this?

I’ve rarely seen a bigger bunch of whiners than us Indians right now. The Prime Minister announced basic austerity steps because of the global oil and gas crisis triggered by the war in Iran. Countries worldwide are responding sensibly: raising fuel prices, shifting to four-day