The Ram Mandir donations theft and Modi’s men who should answer for it ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ – The Grandiose Self Dhirendra K Jha, Amrita Singh August 1, 2026 FIVE MONTHS AFTER Narendra Modi began his second term as prime minister, the Supreme Court delivered his government a momentous gift. On 9 November 2019, it settled a land dispute in… Read More Trust Issues
When corruption does not make a political noise (July 9, 2026) Today, the fear is not simply that political power is being used to extract rents, but that it is being used to create and protect quasi-monopolies, selectively rewarding favoured firms while disadvantaging rivals. The political pillars have collapsed even more. The BJP and RSS… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta: When corruption does not make a political noise / The Return of Corruption: What Changed Under Modi?
NB: Listen to Arvind Anjum’s interviews with the new arrivals at the protest site. Pakistani youth express their admiration and solidarity with struggling Indian students: BBC report. DS The protest has convincingly established not just the irrelevance of legacy TV channels but also their continued abandonment of basic journalistic norms Kalpana Sharma There were broken… Read More The media missed the biggest story: How a generation fed on consumerism and hate found its voice
Fear evaporates as India’s youth confront State power on streets. There were 152 paper leaks in the last 10 years with zero convictions Bharat Bhushan Pan India protests against the events of July 20 have marked a significant shift in Indian politics, moribund for 12 years under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. What began as a narrow protest about examination… Read More Bharat Bhushan: Exam anger becomes a political reckoning
The environmentalist has had a tough year to say the least. He did not deserve to be preventively held under the NSA. He does not deserve to be ignored now. NB: Preventive detention was a colonial measure introduced as long ago as 1818. It was then named Bengal Regulation III of 1818. It was retained… Read More Sonam Wangchuk Does Not Deserve the Establishment’s Silence / This IIT professor died after a 111-day fast to save the Ganga
Saba Naqvi I am in a cab in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh, where our family village home is located. Ayodhya is 100 km away, the road signs say. The vehicle is clean, the driver courteous and clearly deeply religious. His telephone declares “Jai Shri Ram” a thousand times during our drive because it is set… Read More Ayodhya’s holy scandal
Nivedita Menon on July 9; 2026 At Jantar Mantar As I was leaving the protest site of the Cockroach Janta Party at Jantar Mantar where I had gone to express solidarity – on July 5th, the sixteenth day of the struggle – a young man who had also just stepped out, approached me to ask… Read More Cockroach Janta Party – a turning point for a dying democracy?
नागपुर से सुप्रिया का सनसनीखेज खुलासा! | Supriya Shrinate | Ram Mandir Ram Mandir के चढ़ावे में डकैती को लेकर फायर हुईं Supriya Shrinate, RSS-BJP को सुनाई खरी-खरी चंपत राय अभी कई लोगों के राज खोलेंगे, मोदी-RSS पर फटेगा ‘बम’? Abhay Dubey
The sit-in has entered the 19th day, though the fast started eight days later Shemin Joy The hunger strike at Jantar Mantar, the capital’s dharna hotspot, demanding Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation, has started taking toll on the protesters with activist Sonam Wangchuk losing seven kg and a JNU scholarHrishikesh Talukdar, an AISA activist, being… Read More CJP protest at Jantar Mantar: Hunger strike starts taking toll on protesters
A news report in The Indian Express has corroborated the systemic nature of this organised theft, citing sources who revealed that the matter only became public due to infighting between two trust members over recruitment and the stolen funds.The Wire staff New Delhi: The massive theft of public donations from the Ram Temple in Ayodhya was… Read More Theft in Ram Temple First Detected and Reported in 2021, Trust Removed the Whistleblower Instead
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