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Write Mind | Anurag Kashyap: Bollywood's Whiniest Rebel Without A Cause?

His latest whining session is about India’s first AI-driven Hanuman film, which he’s decided is the apocalypse for Bollywood.

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Write Mind | The 'Ghuspaithiya' Vote Bank: How Opposition Is Stealing Elections While Crying Foul

Write Mind | The 'Ghuspaithiya' Vote Bank: How Opposition Is Stealing Elections While Crying Foul

If you peel back the layers, it is the opposition's own backyard that is rotten with infiltrators and fake voters. It comes straight from voter...

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Write Mind | Trump’s Tariff Tantrum: Bharat In The Crosshairs Of A Flailing MAGA Dream

Write Mind | Trump’s Tariff Tantrum: Bharat In The Crosshairs Of A Flailing MAGA Dream

Trump’s framing India as Putin’s sidekick, forgetting that the US nudged us to buy Russian crude early in the Ukraine war to stabilize energy...

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Write Mind | Trump’s Tariff Tantrum: Bharat In The Crosshairs Of A Flailing MAGA Dream

Write Mind | Trump’s Tariff Tantrum: Bharat In The Crosshairs Of A Flailing MAGA Dream

The US President’s sanctions will hike prices for Americans, alienate allies, and push Bharat toward new horizons

10.08.2025 10

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Write Mind | Malegaon Verdict Is A Damning Indictment Of UPA’s ‘Saffron Terror’ Farce

Write Mind | Malegaon Verdict Is A Damning Indictment Of UPA’s ‘Saffron Terror’ Farce

The 2008 Malegaon blast, which took 6 lives and injured over 100, was a tragedy that necessitated meticulous investigation and accountability.

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Write Mind | Op-Sindoor’s Roar: Modi Govt’s 16-Hour Parliament Masterclass Exposes Congress’s Pakistan-Pampering DNA

The Modi government turned a 16-hour debate in Parliament into a fiery crucible of Bharat’s resolve, defending Operation Sindoor with a ferocity...

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Write Mind | Kerala’s Guru Poojan Row: A Marxist Farce Unmasks Phony Secularism

The Kerala government’s knee-jerk reaction—ordering probes into a school ritual—smacks of desperation, if not vexation

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Write Mind | Fragility Of Centralised Power: Lessons For Democracies From China’s Political Mayhem

China’s last decade under Xi Jinping has been a textbook case of building a throne on quicksand

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Write Mind | Panchayat Seasons: A Lens On Rural Bharat For Gen Z

For those eyeing roles in governance or politics, Panchayat is a living textbook on grassroots India

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Write Mind | Rahul Gandhi, The Self-Anointed ‘Leader Of Pakistan’

Gandhi’s 2025 outbursts, particularly around Operation Sindoor—India’s surgical strikes on terror camps in Pakistan and PoK—reveal a man...

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Write Mind | Kesari 2.0: A Roaring Tribute To CS Nair, The Lion Who Shook An Empire

Kesari 2.0 is a mirror to our conscience, a fist against oblivion. It demands that we teach this history, seek a genuine British apology, and honour...

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Write Mind | RSS And Ambedkar: When Two Doctors Meet

With one soul-stirring journey, PM Narendra Modi has lit a quiet lantern, blending Ambedkar’s azure dreams with the RSS’s saffron glow.

16.04.2025 10

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Write Mind | The Silent Toilers: A Jain’s Lament In A Noisy Bharat

The Navkar Mahamantra Divas, as Modi framed it, isn’t Jain alone—it’s a call to anyone listening, a nudge towards unity without force

10.04.2025 10

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Write Mind | Why India Must Reconsider NJAC

The National Judicial Appointments Commission, which the Supreme Court axed in 2015, needs to come back. Dismissing it outright for being imperfect...

31.03.2025 10

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Write Mind | Is The Waqf Board A Religious Institution Or An Arbitrary Body?

What was once a religious institution has morphed into a land-controlling powerhouse, operating with striking arbitrariness

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Write Mind | Kalat’s Stolen Crown, Nehru’s Cold Shoulder And Balochistan’s Perpetual War

Balochistan is a war zone now—Pakistan’s playground of horrors, from mass graves to silenced screams

15.03.2025 10

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Write Mind | Stone-Pelting At RSS Kids Camp: Where’s The Outrage Brigade Now?

The Dombivli stone-pelting attack, targeting children at an RSS shakha, exposes the hypocrisy of India's selective outrage. The incident should...

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Write Mind | False Binary: There’s No Hindi Vs Tamil Debate

Pitting two sister languages and their millions of speakers against each other is a petty political ploy that must be avoided in the interest of...

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