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RSS’s Gen Z Outreach Falls Into a Left-Created Linguistic Trap

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat had a lot to say in his special outreach to the current generation, labelled GenZ, Wednesday in...

07.08.2026 9

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Siddhartha Rai

Bihar Is Not For Beginners: Three Political Stories Hidden Inside the Bankipur Bombshell

Of the three byelections held recently—Bankipur in Bihar, Datia in Madhya Pradesh and Manjalpur in Gujarat—the first one sprung a near-shocking...

05.08.2026 6

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Is BJP’s Bankipur loss, a warning shot or a salvo unleashed by Bhumihar-Brahmins?

Will the loss of Bankipur assembly seat in Bihar serve as a warning shot for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or will it be the proverbial first stone...

04.08.2026 10

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Sonam Wangchuk’s fast is farcical; the politics of it takes all meaning out

Aamir Khan might have junked suggestions that his movie ‘3 Idiots’ was ever in any manner inspired by the persona and life of Sonam Wangchuk and...

17.07.2026 30

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Sona Pappu, Jay Kamdar, Merlin Group: Decoding muscle-money-TMC nexus behind Kolkata’s notorious syndicate

Since time immemorial, West Bengal politics has been synonymous with violence backed by a syndicate. While the Left governments created this...

20.05.2026 40

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‘Don’t cry wolf, when you are the wolf’: The said, the unsaid, and the implied in Amit Shah’s announcement of the end of Naxalism in India

Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s speech in Lok Sabha, just a day before the RSS-BJP juggernaut had set the date for the official deletion and...

01.04.2026 30

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Siddhartha rai