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Saturday, February 21, 2026
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Topic: Leftists

Bengal is more Tagore than Bankim, more Marx than market

What Bengal needs desperately is to embrace its glorious past, exhume its heroes with warts and all, and not shy away from heated debates.

Young, Left, and reading—Delhi’s May Day Bookstore celebrates Workers’ Day for the 13th year

On May Day, a bookstore in Delhi's Shadipur celebrated its 13th anniversary by hosting a wide array of performers and speakers and by offering special discounts on select volumes.

Ignorant lefties waving the Constitution are basically saying there was no India before 1950

The lefties are passing on to their comrades-in-arms the subliminal message that there was no civilisation, no society, no culture before 26 January 1950. But India and Indians created the Constitution, not the other way around.

Israel lost control of the ‘narrative’ to Left academics. India must not go the same way

Israel is paying a heavy price today for ignoring the vicious propaganda unleashed by academic cabals in the West. India runs the same risk unless it takes the battle of words forward.

Bharat needs to reclaim her history from Delhi. Don’t complain, act — Vikram Sampath

It appears that our history is a laundry list of invasions and battles lost. There is little emphasis on the strong resistance we put up or the battles we won.

Leftists in India and US are same, use words like majoritarian-minoritarian to suit their needs

If you are opposed to Leftists, be it in India or US, you are almost certainly correct.

Sri Lanka-type abyss in India? It’s a fantasy of the Left that can only be dismissed

India’s sobriety and balanced approach has been a complete contrast to Sri Lanka and ranks as one of the better national economic policies anywhere in the world.

Thakur Ram Singh — RSS pracharak who built the movement to ‘rewrite’ Indian history

Thakur Ram Singh, who would have turned 106 years old today, founded Akhil Bharatiya Itihas Sankalan Yojana in 1994 through which he began a movement to challenge Leftist historians.

Soviet-era posters to raised fist artwork — BJP using Left symbols to be Bengal ‘insider’

After being branded ‘band of outsiders’ by the TMC, the BJP in Bengal faces a historical emptiness it is trying to overcome through its digital campaign.

If Modi really sees India as a democracy, then he must stop the labelling exercise

Minister Piyush Goyal must not belittle farmers’ protest by saying Leftists have infiltrated it. This disconnects us from knowing what is driving the farmers.

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.