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Thursday, January 8, 2026
TopicRaima Sen

Topic: Raima Sen

History or propaganda? Raima Sen gets threats over Hindi film on ‘Great Calcutta Killings’

‘Maa Kaali’ claims to lay bare the ‘erased history’ of the 1946 Calcutta riots, but Raima Sen-starrer is also catching flak as a ‘propaganda’ film that’s exploiting a painful past.

In Vivek Agnihotri’s The Vaccine War, heroes are not the focus. Villains matter more

The film conveniently glosses over the plight of doctors, offering the simplistic view that one vaccine solved all of the administrative problems India suffered during the Covid crisis.

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Why Pinarayi Vijayan is going soft on an Ezhava leader’s anti-Muslim hate speech

Pinarayi Vijayan once called Vellappally Natesan, the general secretary of SNDP Yogam, Kerala’s Pravin Togadia. Now he is giving his hate speech a free pass.

500% tariffs ahead for India? Trump’s lined up a big bad Bill for countries buying Russian oil

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says bill will be 'well-timed, as Ukraine is making concessions for peace and Putin is all talk, continuing to kill the innocent'.

2025: Pakistan’s deadliest year in over a decade

Islamabad-based think-tank PICSS's new report says Pakistan saw 'pronounced escalation' in violence last year, with 3,413 conflict-related deaths compared to 1,950 in previous year.

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.