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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicRajput protests

Topic: rajput protests

Patidar vs Patidar, Kshatriyas vs BJP’s Rupala — why Rajkot is one of Gujarat’s most-watched battles

Union Minister Parshottam Rupala is fighting against Congress's Paresh Dhanani in Patidar-dominated Rajkot. The two leaders are facing off after over 21 years.

Rajput anger over ‘Padmaavat’, Dalit & Muslim wrath cost BJP dear in Rajasthan

The bypoll results show that the BJP is facing huge anti-incumbency in the state while the Congress is on the road to recovery.

The objections to Padmavati require social debate, not legal censure

We are in the midst of a culture war. Each week, we discuss the propriety and limits of the freedom of speech and expression

The Padmavati fracas is also about power and privilege

Free speech is important - but we should first ask whose free speech do we always rush to protect?

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.