The problem is not the movie ‘Chhaava’. It is how politicians exploited the emotions it provoked. The movie did not ask for Aurangzeb’s tomb to be vandalised, politicians did.
Trump may or may not like Modi on a personal level. But there’s one thing we do know about the US President: his approach to most issues is strictly transactional.
Trump is determinedly isolationist. He is not interested in being friends with foreign countries. He only wants to show Americans how he has whipped foreign governments into line.
In many ways, MK Stalin‘s letter articulated what many South Indians feel but don’t necessarily say. For how long will South India be kept back by the failures of the Hindi belt?
These hypocrites give comedy a bad name, but no Indian citizen should have the full weight of the state used against them over a joke, no matter how crass.
It’s easy to support somebody’s free speech when you agree with what is being said. But it is more important to fight for it even when you don’t agree.
Ratan Tata once told me that if the Tatas ever took over Air India, he would complete the job he was unable to. The company needs to make good on that promise & not besmirch the memory of Ratan and JRD.
There was a time when Indians dreamt of being world leaders in technology. Now, the Chinese are so far ahead that they don’t even regard us as competition. It’s between them and the US.
Many who were so worried about the decline in the rupee over a decade ago are unwilling to speak up. They were tigers when Manmohan Singh was in charge. Now they are mice.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
Gen Dwivedi framed Op Sindoor not just as retaliation to Pahalgam, but as demonstration of India’s capability to fight multi-domain conflicts with integration between services & agencies.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
A billion more people like Mr. Sanghvi and India would truly be a great country. Greatness for country comes from people minding their own business and improving their own lives rather than grandiose rewriting of the past
It’s the failure of the previous generations to not give us perspective. This situation is so rotten that I have no words. We are not discussing Akbar the Great, what we are discussing is an evil person who killed a great empire by upending the policies of his ancestors.
Any person who is intolerant deserves to be deplored. Is the minority community finding it difficult to see him as a villain?
This man was a total and absolute failure: He was an intolerant orthodox loser who spent all his time and resources of the empire for a campaign which he lost. The Deccan campaign of Aurangzeb was a failure. When he died he is said to be disillusioned by all the stupidity he did in his life. THIS LOSER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF MUGHAL EMPIRE.
So the moral of the story is that intolerant losers can only bring suffering.
It is TRUE, our politics is primitive. But not only that, but also our media is primitive, our society is primitive and our democracy is primitive.
A billion more people like Mr. Sanghvi and India would truly be a great country. Greatness for country comes from people minding their own business and improving their own lives rather than grandiose rewriting of the past
It’s the failure of the previous generations to not give us perspective. This situation is so rotten that I have no words. We are not discussing Akbar the Great, what we are discussing is an evil person who killed a great empire by upending the policies of his ancestors.
Any person who is intolerant deserves to be deplored. Is the minority community finding it difficult to see him as a villain?
This man was a total and absolute failure: He was an intolerant orthodox loser who spent all his time and resources of the empire for a campaign which he lost. The Deccan campaign of Aurangzeb was a failure. When he died he is said to be disillusioned by all the stupidity he did in his life. THIS LOSER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF MUGHAL EMPIRE.
So the moral of the story is that intolerant losers can only bring suffering.