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Topic: Modi speech

World doesn’t need another China. Modi’s Swadeshi call shows why India holds the key

India has the scale, talent, and civilisational ethos to become a trusted hub for manufacturing, technology, and services. We must deepen domestic capabilities to seize this opportunity.

In Op Sindoor year, ‘strength’ features prominently in Modi’s I-Day speech, focus on ‘farmers’

ThePrint conducted a word cloud analysis of Modi’s Independence Day speeches from 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Here’s what we found.

The speech PM Modi should deliver this Independence Day

For the last 11 years, Nehru has been constantly blocking my efforts and causing the fiascos that are my many yojanas and abhiyans. He is the reason most of my initiatives turn into disasters.

How Modi set the mood for TV news, op-eds—Pahalgam to Operation Sindoor

We seesawed from grief and battle cries of “war” to welcome relief as the PM went from vowing vengeance in Madhubani to calm, composed, steely strength in his address to the nation.

How to break the news & what’s worse, measles or RFK?

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

Modi didn’t speak down to Indians. He spoke with them

It was a moment of national redefinition, signalling India’s transition from reactive victimhood to strategic assertiveness.

‘People-powered initiative’: PM Modi on 10 years of ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ movement

Modi said that the movement has focused on overcoming gender barriers & biases, paving the way to ensure that the girl child has access to education and opportunities.

Fact Check: Modi did not praise ballot papers over EVMs, video of 2016 speech is cropped

In the original video, available on the Modi's official YouTube channel, the PM praises India's use of EVMs while criticising countries like the US that still rely on ballot papers.

‘Those rejected by public resorting to hooliganism’: Modi slams Opposition ahead of Winter Session

While delivering his customary address, PM said that the Opposition’s main objective seems to be hindering the functioning of Parliament rather than contributing to its progress.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.