The Chhangur Baba’s Conversion Racket (Chapter 7) Jamaluddin, alias Jalaluddin, alias Chhangur Baba or Changur Peer Baba, is a 70-year-old self-styled godman from Rehra Mafi village in Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh. He reportedly…
Category: Politics
Dhurandhar: The Revenge movie and Its reply to Modern Jihad
Modern Jihad: War of Narratives (Chapter 2) Modern wars are fought at every front. Narrative formation is one such front. For decades we were shown movies that showed Pakistan in colours of…
Chartered Accountants: Is India in Governance Crises?
(Chapter 8) The Private Bureaucracy that Failed Chartered Accountants occupy a unique position in India’s economic governance. They are not government officers. They are not politicians. They are licensed private professionals whose…
Politicians: Is India in Governance Crises?
The Conflict of Interest Chapter 7 When the leadership class i.e. politician is the primary beneficiary of the system it does not want any change. This makes reforms structurally impossible. The challenge…
Parliamentary Crisis in 2026 Budget Session
The Roman Shadow in Parliament of India Marcus Junius Brutus was a killer who with a dagger turned mighty Rome into chaos. Brutus drove a dagger into Julius Caesar on the Ides…
CBI: Is India in Governance Crises?
The Caged Parrot (CBI). Chapter 6 The persistence of corruption in India, is not due to lack of laws or watchdogs to prosecute it but due to a deep inertia in preventing…
Is India in Governance Crises?
Chapter 5 The Media Without Journalism India’s free press was constitutionally guaranteed. What was never guaranteed was that the press would want to use that freedom. It had freedom to criticise the…
Is India in Governance Crises?
Chapter 4 Lokpal: The Watchdog that Sets Wrong Example. India’s VIP culture in bureaucracy is not a side effect of governance. It is not a collection of bad actors in an otherwise…
Is India in Governance Crises?
Chapter 3 This was the question I had posed a few months back (in Chapter 1): If the bureaucracy, police, regulators, and enforcement apparatus are internally sabotaging the elected government, is this…
The Domestic Network that Connects Dhurandhar to Pakistan
Reasons for Opposition to Dhurandhar 2. Dhurandhar: Revenge is a movie about Pakistan’s institutional rot, but it produced an interesting side effect in India. Muslim politicians across the board opposed it. Alia…
The New Face of Journalism-Activism
Emergence of the Grant-Funded Journalism Professionals writing on contract are called copy-writers. Professionals writing for others e.g. biographies are called ghost writers. But these remain behind the scene. Their names remain hidden.Often…
War Between USA, Israel and Iran Part 6
Why War with Iran Will Have no Result? Abstract: The war with Iran did not begin with missiles. It began in 1924 when the Ottoman Caliphate collapsed and nobody answered the question…
Why People fail in profession?
A Layered Theory of Professional Failure. People fall in love with the image of a profession, not its daily reality. A chef imagines the applause, not the 2 AM grease cleanup. A…
General Naravane’s Unpublished Memoir: Four Stars of Destiny
(Part 1) The Caravan Magazine: General Naravane’s Unpublished Memoir Caravan Failed to Ground Your Article on Naravane in Precedent and Facts. Sushant Singh’s essay on General Naravane’s unpublished memoir reads like investigative…
Cultural Dark Age under BJP Government
Reluctance of BJP to Excavate Archaeological Sites Former Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) regional director KK Muhammed has described the last eleven years under the BJP government as a “dark age” for…
The Intelligence Network of Congress Party
(Part 2) How to Destroy an Invisible Intelligence Structure. Visibility, Source Burning, and the Cat and Mouse Game of Dismantling Congress Party’s Hidden Architecture Attacking the Invisible Every conventional weapon of political…
Congress Party’s Four Stars of Destiny
(Part 1) What Makes Congress Party Special? Power Without Votes: The Intelligence Architecture of Indian National Congress The Unexplained Paradox Congress party stands at a remarkable historical low. It governs only two…
Meera Nanda’s God Market suffers from Cognitive Dissonance
Examples of Cognitive Dissonance in the Work of Meera Nanda Meera Nanda has written a book titled “God Market How Globalisation is Making India More Hindu” in English. The book not only…
Meera Nanda is New Prophet of Rationality
Meet Meera Nanda as New Prophet of Rationality It is ironic label but it cuts into the heart of the problem. The term Prophet captures the fundamental contradiction in her work. A…
Review of Meera Nanda’s Book: The God Market
A Critical Review of Meera Nanda’s “The God Market: How Globalization is Making India More Hindu” Meera Nanda’s 2009 work presents a provocative thesis. It states that economic liberalization has paradoxically strengthened…
Meera Nanda Conflates Insanity with Rationality
Is Meera Nanda a Pseyudo Intellectual? A genius can hold two contradictory ideas but the insanity is the condition of holding multiple contradictions without noticing any of them. Genius deliberates the paradox….
A review of Meera Nanda’s book, The God Market.
Meera Nanda’s The God Market: Imaginary India, Partisan Lens, and Scholarly Disqualification Meera Nanda has a basic authorial disqualification. Nanda presents herself as an expert on Hindu religiosity and the political implications…
Linguistic Review of Meera Nanda’s book called The God Market
Forensic Linguistics of Meera Nanda’s book called The God Market. This story will tell how much personal life we expose in public when we leave small nuggets of information in the public…
Why Pakistan is a Jinx for its Rulers?
(Part 7) Pakistan is a jinx. Anyone who defends idea of Pakistan eventually dies in pain, in violence, or in both. Those who shielded it, justified it, or invested in it met…
India Spring: Why Arfa Khanum Sherwani and her ilk Criticize the Movie Dhurandar.
_*]:min-w-0 !gap-3.5″> Project India Spring: A Strategic Analysis An examination of activist-journalist networks reveals a coordinated pattern spanning film criticism, protest movements, and regional destabilization narratives. This analysis, documents systematic efforts to…