Autocracies now mimic democracy to gain legitimacy at home and abroad. Manipulated elections become tools to claim moral ground and democracy stands repurposed, not dead.
The identity vs citizenship confusion is why India must revisit CAA-NRC—not to target communities, but to secure the nation and streamline citizenship records.
Algorithmic decisions scale and depersonalize power. Unlike a welfare officer’s error, an algorithm's choice is often opaque—and nearly impossible to challenge.
When ‘awesome’ greets the average, true greatness gets lost. It's time we restore meaning to praise—and reserve our superlatives for the truly extraordinary.
The art of subjugation—through war, propaganda, and control—may be the legacy that defines humanity’s extinction in the eyes of future beings who study our fall.
Urban poverty encompasses settlements in towns and villages. The urban poor often live in inadequate and unauthorized slums, facing a lack of sanitation and proper infrastructure.
LIC’s delays, denials, and technical traps betray the trust it was built on. This isn’t insurance—it’s institutionalised indifference, cloaked in legacy and patriotism.
While the abrogation of Article 370 was projected as a step toward integration and equal opportunity, the post-370 policies in J&K reveal something starkly different.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
The Chinese are said to have hired ex-fighter pilots & air force operators from NATO countries over the past several years to help them fine-tune their operational & flying capabilities.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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