Dar ul Islam called Pakistan. As per Islamic law, there are two major divisions of the world. These are dar al-Islam (lit. ‘territory of Islam’), and dar al-harb (lit. ‘territory of war’)….
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Obituary to Political Career of Mamata Banerjee
Future of Mamata Banerjee (Chapter 8) Mamata Banerjee was Chief Minister of West Bengal for 15 years. She has no development work to her credit, no women, or poor empowerment scheme to…
West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026 Changed the Politics of India Forever.
Obituary to Secular Politics in India. (Chapter 7) West Bengal election results destroyed the model of secular politics in India. The secular political model was not killed by BJP. It was not…
Revival of West Bengal: Is it Possible?
Rebuilding West Bengal from Ashes. Will the Phoenix Rise? (Chapter 6) West Bengal election results have been announced on 4th May 2026. BJP won 206 seats and TMC won 81 seats. The…
West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026: Analysis of Victory
How BJP Won in 2026? (Chapter 5) West Bengal has pronounced its verdict. BJP has won 206 seats and TMC is confined to 81 seats. TMC usually started her winning counter from…
West Bengal: What Is Wrong with the State?
Diagnosing the Problems of West Bengal. (Chapter 4) West Bengal has problems which do not reflect in numbers. Before we go into numbers, let us reflect its problem of being in stasis…
An Analysis of West Bengal 2026 Assembly Elections
The 21st Century Election Commission of India (Chapter 3) We are in 26th year of this century and Election Commission has suddenly woken up to this reality. A little late but it…
2026 West Bengal Assembly Elections Without Violence
Living Under the Shadow of Violence (Chapter 2) The biggest achievement of the 2026 Assembly Election in West Bengal is not the voter turnout, not the SIR effect and certainly not the…
West Bengal Deserves the Change It Seeks
Election 2026: An Overview (Chapter 1) Kolkatta, the capital of West Bengal was the first township established by the British, on the Banks of mighty river Hoogly, as Ganga is called over…
Modern Jihad-E-Itihas in History Books Taught at School
The Broken Guard at School. (Chapter 15) In the last chapter on Modern Jihad, Chapter 14, we had read about the behaviour of a Secular Empress. She arrived at her wedding without…
Modern Jihad: Magic of Conversion to Islam
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…
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…