India extends lockdown

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended the lockdown to May 3. Modi appreciated the discipline Indians have shown during the 21-day lockdown which has enabled the country to place a check on the spread of COVID-19. Modi rated the effort a success as he announced its extension to MayRead More →

Rahul Gandhi Wayanad

I cannot quite comprehend the invite going to Ramchandra Guha for the Kerala Literature Festival (KLF 2020) of which the declared focus theme is environment and climate change. Nevertheless, his skill of grabbing the national headlines by criticizing Rahul Gandhi’s election from Wayanad last year is an obvious and theRead More →

CAB protests on Al Jazeera

Ever since the government of India passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 or CAB, there has been a deluge of misinformation about what the changes will do. There has been scaremongering of astronomical proportions insinuating that the entire Muslim population of India – some 200 million of them – willRead More →

Washington, June 8: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday described the US as an “indispensable partner” of India and stated that a strong India is in the strategic interest of the US. “In every sector of India’s forward march, I see the US as an indispensable partner,” Modi saidRead More →

By Amulya Ganguli  Even if Narendra Modi hasn’t lived up to the expectations which he aroused two years ago, he is still the best person for turning India into a modern and economically advanced country. The claim about modernity may seem odd considering that the medievalists of the saffron brotherhoodRead More →