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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicAchhe Din

Topic: Achhe Din

Achhe di…stant future & bear with me, this candidate is full of bull

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

The 1000-year ‘blurred’ vision & the largest parasite

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Ram Mandir banaya kaun, 370 hataya kaun?’ — BJP releases 2024 campaign song ‘Phir aayega Modi’

The 10-minute song, released by the BJP through its X account, focuses on Modi government’s works, India’s strides in space and the scientific arena, and takes digs at Oppn leaders.

By 2017, Modi had belied the hopes he raised in 2014

Modi rapidly expanded same welfare schemes he had called a leading symbol of India’s economic underachievement under the Congress.

India was asked to choose between society and economy in 2014. Now they have neither

India has jackboot laws, a state prepared to stomp all over you, and citizens who don’t often realise how easily they can be crushed under both.

From vikas to garibi to anti-Congressism: the faltering Modi narrative

Modi can’t carry out an ‘anti-incumbency’ campaign against the Congress when he is the incumbent, he needs a new strategy for 2019. 

Have you ever wondered why Narendra Modi never says ‘I did it’?

The Modi government has so far shied away from declaring itself successful. It is likely it may not do so even in the 2019 campaign.

‘Achhe Din of 2014’ have still not been unpacked and we already have ‘Achhe Din of 2022’

Let us not allow facts get in the way of our ability to believe in 'Achhe Din 2014'. Instead, marvel at how nicely the promise was packaged.

मध्यान्तर के बाद, प्रधानमंत्री मोदी के आंसू देते हैं उनके इरादों का पता

अब 2019 लोकसभा चुनाव तक विकास नहीं बल्कि राष्ट्रवाद, हिंदुत्व और भ्रष्टाचार के खिलाफ जंग के इर्दगिर्द घूमेगी मोदी की राजनीति.

Not growth & jobs but nationalism, Hindutva, corruption will drive Modi’s push to 2019

The BJP’s close shave in Gujarat, and not the sweep in Uttar Pradesh, will shape the party’s strategy. Growth, jobs, and achche din will be mere afterthoughts.

On Camera

Trump’s 4,500 troops can topple Nicolás Maduro—not fix Venezuela

The US troops could dislodge the government in Caracas, but it won’t be enough to police a country ringed by drug cartels and insurgents.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.