One can only imagine how unhappy Devendra Fadnavis must have been as Eknath Shinde’s deputy. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and Shinde is feeling the pinch.
Prashant Kishor has got his finger on the pulse of Bihari voters—their frustration and listlessness with a CM who has lost his mojo but refuses to call it quits.
PM Modi evidently reposes more faith in serving and retired bureaucrats than in politicians. IAS officers must, however, be taking it with a pinch of salt.
Since 1967, the Left has been in power in either Kerala, West Bengal, Tripura. If Pinrayi Vijayan doesn’t deliver in 2026 Assembly election, the Left will be out of power in India.
Tamil Nadu BJP president whipped himself in public to protest against the sexual assault of a student. What must have hurt him though is neither Modi-Shah-Nadda nor national BJP tweeted about his pain.
Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.
On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
Tamils live in Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore. They are not an immigrant community in Sri Lanka. The Sinhalese and Tamils both played the language card in the 1950s and that country descended into civil war. The first race riots were triggered by Tamils whitewashing Sinhalese name boards in their districts.
Tamils in Malaysia and Singapore dare not raise the language issue. The two countries prosper.
Stalin is slowly becoming a demagogue with the state elections approaching. He is playing with fire. Tamil Nadu will not benefit.
A very good article. I am a native Hindi speaker who grew up in Delhi and now lives overseas. I look at all this politics surrounding languages with a heavy heart. I understand the impulse of the Southern Indian states to preserve their native tongues, but I wish the demonization of the Hindi language would end. For my part, if I work anywhere in South India when I return to India in later life, I will make an effort to learn the local language. Perhaps other “North” Indians living in South India should try to do the same.
Tamils live in Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore. They are not an immigrant community in Sri Lanka. The Sinhalese and Tamils both played the language card in the 1950s and that country descended into civil war. The first race riots were triggered by Tamils whitewashing Sinhalese name boards in their districts.
Tamils in Malaysia and Singapore dare not raise the language issue. The two countries prosper.
Stalin is slowly becoming a demagogue with the state elections approaching. He is playing with fire. Tamil Nadu will not benefit.
A very good article. I am a native Hindi speaker who grew up in Delhi and now lives overseas. I look at all this politics surrounding languages with a heavy heart. I understand the impulse of the Southern Indian states to preserve their native tongues, but I wish the demonization of the Hindi language would end. For my part, if I work anywhere in South India when I return to India in later life, I will make an effort to learn the local language. Perhaps other “North” Indians living in South India should try to do the same.