Tuesday’s Constitution Club election is not the finale of the ‘Thakur-versus-the rest’ battle in the BJP. Wait for the caste census result to come ahead of the next Lok Sabha election.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
Hilal Ahmed (above) has put it very correctly. The politicisation of ‘Iftar’ was begun by Indira Gandhi and continued by Congress PMs ( Vajpayee also) and It is now rightly discontinued by Modi. What is “Iftar”, exactly? It is the breaking of the voluntarily imposed fast observed scrupulously during the whole day, every day in the month of Ramzan by devout Muslims, and is NOT a social activity that these politicians have made it by giving a gala dinner with groaning tables and chattering guests, in an atmosphere resembling a social gathering (invited media in attendance) rather than the intended SIMPLE and symbolic ‘breaking of the fast’. It is used more often as a meeting to garner political leverage and patronage. Worse, it is clearly seen by the Hindus as a ‘political’ tool used by politicians. Its political slant ought to be discontinued, at least what passes for it now, as ‘Iftar’ in the political class. .
Hilal Ahmed (above) has put it very correctly. The politicisation of ‘Iftar’ was begun by Indira Gandhi and continued by Congress PMs ( Vajpayee also) and It is now rightly discontinued by Modi. What is “Iftar”, exactly? It is the breaking of the voluntarily imposed fast observed scrupulously during the whole day, every day in the month of Ramzan by devout Muslims, and is NOT a social activity that these politicians have made it by giving a gala dinner with groaning tables and chattering guests, in an atmosphere resembling a social gathering (invited media in attendance) rather than the intended SIMPLE and symbolic ‘breaking of the fast’. It is used more often as a meeting to garner political leverage and patronage. Worse, it is clearly seen by the Hindus as a ‘political’ tool used by politicians. Its political slant ought to be discontinued, at least what passes for it now, as ‘Iftar’ in the political class. .
Well said, Mr Rajesh!
A very gracious gesture of solidarity and belonging. If one does not like Muslims, all such acts can be derided as pseudo or appeasement.