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Sunday, February 22, 2026
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

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.