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Sunday, May 10, 2026
TopicMinority representation

Topic: Minority representation

Communal riots help parties like BJP. But not for the obvious reasons

The BJP is a party that trades most in a sense of majoritarian grievance and most relies on Hindu votes to push first past the post.

No Muslim minister in 15 of India’s 28 states, one each in 10 others

Delhi too has only one Muslim minister in the AAP govt. West Bengal fares best with seven ministers, followed by Maharashtra that recently inducted four.

Bollywood needs an inclusion rider, so that Sikhs can have more than just one Diljit Dosanjh

The kind of impact that Diljit Dosanjh has made on the Sikh psyche will show its true reach in a few years, but it begs the question: what if such representation was afforded in larger amounts to more minorities?

On Camera

Vijay turned reels, whistles, and fan edits into a political triumph

TVK tapped into young people with promises of employment, better governance, and youth-centric politics, framing old regimes as outdated while invoking Tamil pride and resistance to divisive agendas.

Noel Tata’s resistance to IPO creates discord in board of Indian conglomerate

At the center of the rift is the initial public offering of Tata Sons, which controls a vast collection of companies that do everything from making salt to selling luxury vehicles.

One missile, multiple warheads, many targets: India successfully test-fires Agni 5 with MIRV tech

With MIRV, India can target different different locations or the same location with a time gap. This can include decoys to hoodwink the enemy’s defence systems.

Muslim voters no longer matter to BJP. Only a new Hindu-led coalition can challenge Modi-Shah

These elections mark completion of BJP-secular party divide purely on Hindu-Muslim basis. BJP’s rivals are increasingly looking like Muslim parties though their leaders are all Hindus.