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By Ashok Vohra Zohran Mamdani, the first person of Indian origin to be elected as mayor of New York, in his victory speech, quoting Jawaharlal Nehru’s famous ‘Tryst with Destiny’ speech, categorically expressed his commitment to reject the western paradigm of power politics and promote transformative and positive social action – a typically Indian notion….
J&K Police described an inter-state and transnational terrorist module it recently cracked open as a ‘white-collar terror ecosystem’. In counterterrorism vocabulary, this is an expression both seemingly novel and unsettling – because it is in contradiction with the imagery deeply embedded in our collective psyche, where radicalisation is a product of the disenfranchised, the marginalised,…
For decades, Bihar’s Muslim electorate was front and centre of focus in electoral politics, the so-called ‘M vote’ both JDU’s and RJD’s base. But the 2025 election saw a shift – during campaigning, enthusiasm in Muslim communities for elections gave way to a silent wariness. Read full story on TOI+ Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Disclaimer…
By Partha Sinha Kali is not a goddess carved in stone. She is the logic of decay wearing a garland of skulls. She is entropy, disguised as divinity. Where others promise salvation through order, Kali promises truth through disorder.In thermodynamics, entropy is the slow unravelling of structure – the tax that time imposes on form….
One, security forces have busted many Islamist terror networks, arresting 80-plus this year. Two, no counterintelligence is foolproof. Three, Pakistan’s jihad puppeteers may again look to create mayhem in India outside Kashmir. Four, this tactic gets a boost from Pak-Bangla cosying up. Five, India’s agencies will know that risk of Islamist terrorism will likely grow…
65% of households have a migrant. Their remittances are 50% of a household’s income. Outmigration tripled Bihar’s rural wages, ended exploitative relations. Manufacturing employs just 5%. And it’s impossible for the state to create enough jobs for its growing youth population. In 2025, 12.8L completed secondary school. Also 27% of the population is below 15…
But all too often, none is forthcoming I walked back from the park with a posse of neighbourhood ladies, all giggling and talking to me simultaneously like the panelists on a news hour debate. Kamala was at the gate glaring at me for the cardinal sin of being popular. So I followed the trend and…
But all too often, none is forthcoming I walked back from the park with a posse of neighbourhood ladies, all giggling and talking to me simultaneously like the panelists on a news hour debate. Kamala was at the gate glaring at me for the cardinal sin of being popular. So I followed the trend and…
NDA govt has rolled out an enormous welfare package to win Bihar voters. It will have dire fiscal consequences. My back-of-the-envelope math suggests that just the top two programmes have already raised state revenue expenditure by 10%. Here is the math: Even before they entered the polling booth to cast their vote, 1.5 crore women…
The nose knows. The human animal has only to lift its head, breathe in, and the figure flashes before the mind’s eye – like in the movies, when RoboCop gets a complete lowdown of the visual on his internal screen. So, on a dull morning with its crispness choked by dense suspended particulate matter, even…
