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Mission-Shakti – Why is it a Big Deal?
Yesterday, the Prime Minister tweeted that he will be on TV to address the nation. The whole nation was eagerly waiting with all sorts of speculations. Initially, PM’s announcement seemed like an anti-climax to people’s imagination. WHY SUCH HIGH IMPORTANCE? The answer is that it is a BIG DEAL as it changes India’s STRATEGIC DEFENSE…
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George Fernandes and a blast from the past!
It was the year 1998. BJP was the single largest party and NDA was the largest alliance in the Loksabha with Atal Bihari Vajpayee as it’s elected PM. A no-confidence motion was put before the house and the Congress Party and CPM had joined hands to vote against NDA government. The elected members from both…
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Hows the josh? – High Madam!!
Priyanka Vadra, wife of Robert Vadra, the accused fraudster, and serial land grabber, directly becomes party General Secretary of India’s oldest political party, without any past contributions, without any credible qualification, without any struggle, just because she is a Dynast. And our feeding-on-crumbs media is dancing wagging their tail. On a piece of news that…
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Beware of this Lutyens Cabal!
Paraphrasing what I once read somewhere about Journalism: If person A says that it’s raining outside and person B says that it’s dry, journalists’ job is not to report both the statements. Their job is to look out the fucking window and find out who is lying, and report. Your fucking job is to be focusing…
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A ‘Table for One’
I would like to share a story, the story of a solitary dining table. An empty ‘Table for One‘ is placed at the Cadets Mess near the entrance at the National Defence Academy (NDA) at Khadakwasla. It is laid out for a solitary diner with complete crockery and cutlery. Whom is this placed for? Why…
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No shortage of hypocrites in God’s own country!
Bishop of Jalandhar, Franco Mulakkal, who has been accused by a nun from Kerala of raping her on multiple occasions between 2014 and 2016, has also been accused by at least three other nuns who claim that he took advantage of his position within the diocese and approached them with malicious intentions. An investigation is…
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The Victimhood Narrative around Natural Calamity – The Kerala Style
The devastating Kerala floods that led to the deaths of over 350 people and the displacement of over 3 lakh others. As the operations to rescue those stranded in rain-ravaged areas near completion, the focus has shifted on cleaning and rehabilitation. The Army, Navy and Air Force are continuing concerted efforts to help the state…
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Decoding the India-France G2G Rafale Deal:
What Is Rafale Deal Controversy? In September 2016, India signed an inter-governmental agreement with France, called the “Rafale deal”, in which India bought 36 off-the-shelf Dassault Rafale twin-engine fighters for a price estimated to be Rs. 59,000 crore or 7.8 billion Euros. The failure of communications on the part of the Modi government aside, it is astonishing…
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Award Wapsi – Episode 3
In an unprecedented move, top four judges of Supreme Court, Justice J. Chelameswar, Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Madan Lokur AND Justice Kurien Joseph addressed the media making public their differences with the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Mishra, accusing the CJI of assigning cases to benches of his preference. A highly unusual and utterly sad…
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Justice may be delayed or denied but must diss everything that is even remotely Hindu.
In a frivolous PIL filed in the Supreme Court by some demented idiot, the petitioner argues that the morning prayer of Kendriya Vidyalaya is in violation of the constitution and “impedes nurturing of reasoning and scientific temper among impressionable young minds”. No, that’s not a joke. The joke is, that instead of trouncing the petitioner…
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