Congratulations to The Hindu’s editorial team on this page 1 headline — the best by some distance in the Indian media and, dare I say, in the international media:

Any problem with the headline now?

Evidently it is part of the Finance Minister’s job under the BJP Union government to purvey fake news — toxic disinformation pure and simple, aided and abetted by a Tamil newspaper.

Everything, including public opinion surveys, point to a big win for the DMK and the DMK-led alliance in the coming Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. It could turn out to be a sweep across the 234 seats and a rout for the ruling party.

Is there need for any further comment?

Rahul Gandhi and the Congress Party have done an invaluable service to democracy and to the people of India, especially the poor and the marginalised, by highlighting deep and highly damaging systemic flaws in the electoral process and by putting the far-from-impartial Election Commission of India squarely on the defensive. Read this insightful and rigorously argued single leader in The Hindu (August 9, 2025). “The appropriate response,” the editorial concludes, “requires comprehensive voter roll auditing, enhanced transparency in data sharing, improved technical safeguards including comprehensive audit trails of EVM commands and security protocols for symbol loading, stronger enforcement of electoral regulations, and consultations with political parties. The ECI must embrace the principle that democratic institutions grow stronger through scrutiny. The alternative — continued erosion of confidence in electoral processes — poses far greater risks to democratic governance than any specific allegation of malpractice.” thehindu.com/opinion/editori…

Rafale documents: we are committed to protecting our sources, says N. Ram - The Hindu thehindu.com/news/national/r…

It’s about time the ways of the Isha Foundation & Jaggi Vasudev were investigated, under the rule of law:

New Zealand is special — what a charming way to announce your World Cup ODI squad!

Exclusive: Government waived anti-corruption clauses in Rafale deal, N. Ram in The Hindu thehindu.com/news/national/g…

Exclusive: Rafale deal not on ‘better terms’ than UPA-era offer, N. Ram in The Hindu thehindu.com/news/national/r…

This rigorously fact-checked piece in The Hindu of May 26, 2023 exposes the falsity of the propaganda that the “Sengol” or spectre symbolised and sanctified the “transfer of power”!

A perfect match! The big secret is out thanks to a series of no-nonsense directions issued by the Supreme Court of India to the State Bank of India. Look up the comprehensive table in this exclusive story in The Hindu to learn who paid how much to which political party via the notorious electoral bonds scheme that was struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court: thehindu.com/data/electoral-…

In this signed letter of response he has posted on his official X (Twitter) handle, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi appreciates and accepts the invitation to debate with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on issues that matter in this election and beyond.

Uphold media freedom and independence: Statement by the Editors Guild Of India

Welcome the Congress leader’s clear, bold, and unequivocal condemnation of Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza. It is shameful that the BJP-RSS regime not only fails to take a stand against Israel’s barbaric war against Palestine but is demonstrating that it is strategically closer to Israel and the policies of its far-Right prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, than to the people of Palestine.

This was on the front page of every newspaper, unless the newspaper was in on the coup.

Poll panel steps in to allow launch of book on Rafale deal thehindu.com/books/books-aut…

Don’t miss this invitation to a civil and meaningful debate on issues that matter in this election and beyond — an invitation from three of us that has been just delivered to the PMO and to Mr Rahul Gandhi’s Office.

Here’s a lesson in parliamentary procedure and democracy — worth emulating in all (purportedly) parliamentary systems of government, including in India:

Astute political analyst and activist Yogendra Yadav speaks up for professional pollsters and lambasts India’s mainstream media for acting as the “BJP Spokesperson" in their breathless election coverage. (I would add an important caveat: The Hindu, The Telegraph, The Deccan Herald, etc. and a few Indian language TV news channels were notable exceptions to this generalisation). Swaraj Indi... piped.video/rpUmcWq7ibA?si=D4UW… via @YouTube

Free & fair elections? Dr Palanivel Thyaga Rajan (PTR) on the way the Election Commission of India is conducting the 2024 elections (the18th Lok Sabha election along with elections to the State Assemblies of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim)

Exclusive: Modi’s decision to buy 36 Rafales shot the price of each jet up by 41% - N. Ram in The Hindu thehindu.com/news/national/m…

Congratulations Ravish Kumar on this recognition of your brave, independent, and pro-people journalism. Very well done NDTV. ndtv.com/blog/ravishs-journa… scroll.in/video/932641/watch… Ravish Kumar Wins Magsaysay Award For His Journalism ndtv.com/india-news/ndtvs-ra…

Warmest congratulations on a historic victory in the Supreme Court of India for the DMK government headed by Chief Minister M. K. Stalin — and for the principles of federalism. இந்திய உச்ச நீதிமன்றத்தில், முதலமைச்சர் மு. க. ஸ்டாலின் தலைமையிலான திமுக அரசுக்கும், கூட்டாட்சி தத்துவத்திற்கும் கிடைத்த வரலாற்று சிறப்புமிக்க வெற்றிக்கு என் மனமார்ந்த வாழ்த்துகள்.

And may I ask what values you hold & practice? Respect for the Indian Constitution and for the secular & democratic values it breathes? Do you believe in the equality of all citizens? Or that your ilk are more equal than others”

Visiting Julian Assange during in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London

How is Twitter allowing the valorisation of Nathuram Godse, a diehard Hindutva-vadi & terrorist who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi?

On AltNews co-founder Mohammed Zubair’s arrest on laughable charges: Read this editorial in The Hindu, June 30, 2022: thehindu.com/opinion/editori…

I follow a simple rule on social media: Block anything that’s abusive, nasty, nonsensical, or simply noise. I don’t wish to waste time & energy even scanning such posts.

Rahul Gandhi says he is 100% ready to debate with the Prime Minister — and that he knows that the Prime Minister will not debate with him.

Read Prashant Bhushan’s clear-sighted & upstanding statement submitted in today’s hearing before Justice Arun Mishra’s Supreme Court of India bench:

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar gets it egregiously wrong. A first year law student can tell him that in India, Parliament is not supreme -- the Constitution is. He seems to have mistaken the UK for India! Vice President Hits Out At Supreme Court Again... livelaw.in/top-stories/vice-…

Congratulations, Prannoy, Radhika & team. This shows that people in India and round the world value truth-telling, independent, fearless journalism. NDTV.com is beyond question India’s No. 1 news website and we are proud of its international standing.

SEBI chief Madhabi Buch and SEBI must answer two inescapable questions: — “1) Did she disclose fund linked to Adani?” 2) Did she recuse herself from the Adani investigation? ‘Yes’ or ‘No’? Former chairpersons & Board members weigh in on the subject: indianexpress.com/article/ex…

'This is really an attack on freedom of press': N Ram on NewsClick raids indiatoday.in/india/video/th…

A cartoon that says it all — in The Hindu of November 13, 2020

Commend the firm and fitting response from The Music Academy and its President to the bigoted, casteist objections by a small coterie of set-up Carnatic musicians who can’t stomach the choice of an eminent, widely acclaimed, erudite, and articulate musician for the highest accolade in Carnatic music. If T. M. Krishna doesn’t deserve the Sangita Kalanidhi honour, then who does? And what explains Ranjani-Gayatri’s wild and scurrilous attack — charged with venom and demonstrable falsehoods — on Periyar Ramasamy (1879-1973), the father of the Self-Respect Movement in Tamil Nadu and a champion of women’s equality and rights? Who put them up to this? thehindu.com/entertainment/m… thehindu.com/entertainment/m…

Here is a series of outstanding analytical stories on the working of the electoral bonds scheme (struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of India) by The Hindu’s digital journalism team: 1.ED and IT had conducted searches on many firms which purchased electoral bonds [the information on the ED and IT searches (‘raids’) and the co-relations have been meticulously verified] thehindu.com/data/ed-and-it-…

Watch this:

Defence Ministry protested against PMO undermining Rafale negotiations, N. Ram in The Hindu: thehindu.com/news/national/d…

Express and act in solidarity with NewsClick in the face of an outrageous & lawless assault on media freedom in India. Here’s what happened: Statement from Newsclick Today, on 3rd October, 2023, raids were carried out by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police at various locations including Newsclick’s officen, residences of journalists and employees associated with Newsclick. Several persons were questioned, and as of now, our Director Mr. Prabir Purkayastha and one Mr. Amit Chakraborty have been arrested. We have not been provided with a copy of the FIR, or informed about the exact particulars of the offences with which we have been charged. Electronic devices were seized from the Newsclick premises and homes of employees, without any adherence to due process such as the provision of seizure memos, hash values of the seized data, or even copies of the data. Newsclick’s office has also been sealed in a blatant attempt at preventing us from continuing our reporting. What we have been able to gather is that Newsclick stands accused of offences under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), for purportedly carrying Chinese propaganda on its website. We strongly condemn these actions of a Government that refuses to respect journalistic independence, and treats criticism as sedition or “anti-national” propaganda. Newsclick has been targeted by a series of actions by various agencies of the Government of India since 2021. Its offices and residences of officials have been raided by the Enforcement Directorate, the Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police and the Income Tax Department. All devices, laptops, gadgets, phones, etc. have been seized in the past. All emails and communications have been analysed under the microscope. All bank statements, invoices, expenses incurred, sources of funds received by Newsclick in the last several years have been scrutinised by different agencies of the Government from time to time. Various directors and other related persons have spent countless hours on several occasions being interrogated by these government agencies. Yet, in the last two plus years, the Enforcement Directorate has not been able to file a complaint accusing Newsclick of money laundering. The Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police has not been able to file a charge sheet against Newsclick for offences under the Indian Penal Code. The Income Tax Department has not been able to defend its actions before the Courts of law. In the last several months, Mr. Prabir Purkayastha has not even been called in for questioning by any of these agencies. Yet, a Government that has not been able to substantiate any charges against Newsclick despite being in possession of all its information, documentation and communications, needed a motivated and bogus article published in the New York Times to invoke the draconian UAPA and attempt to shut down and stifle independent and fearless voices that portray the story of the real India – of peasants, of labourers, of farmers, and other oft-ignored sections of society. We want to state for the record: 1. Newsclick is an independent news website. 2. Our journalistic content is based on highest standards of the profession. 3. Newsclick does not publish any news or information at the behest of any Chinese entity or authority, directly or indirectly. 4. Newsclick does not propagate Chinese propaganda on its website. 5. Newsclick does not take directions from Neville Roy Singham regarding the content published on its website. 6. All funding received by Newsclick has been through the appropriate banking channels and have been reported to the relevant authorities as required by law, as substantiated by the Reserve Bank of India in proceedings before the High Court of Delhi. (Newsclick’s Statement concludes in the next post)

No evidence against Chidambaram, says N. Ram thehindu.com/news/national/n…

In light of Hindenberg Research’s documented revelations centring on conflict of interest issues, and the failure of SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch to answer the specific allegations, which are backed by documentation leaked by a whistleblower, her continuance as SEBI chairperson has become untenable. The interests of India’s large investing community, especially of the small and medium investors, demand no less than her immediate resignation or removal. Passing the buck to her husband Dhaval Buch’s “childhood friend from school and IIT Delhi” or making sweeping, diversionary counter-allegations against Hindenberg is not any kind of serious answer to the allegations. For the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) — the statutory regulator charged with “the duty…to protect the interests of investors in securities and to promote the development of, and to regulate the securities market, by such measures as it thinks fit” — to wade into this affair in blanket defence of its chairperson’s, and her husband’s, personal financial dealings is inappropriate and improper. There needs to be a fair and objective investigation into the allegations and whether a Joint Parliamentary Committee is set up or not, this is yet another opportunity for investigative journalism to dig deep and try and get to the truth.

This is journalism? Bharti Jain, the Times of India’s Editor-Internal Security, tweeted a bizarre & defamatory string of falsehoods about Amartya Sen & Nalanda University. Read ‘Amartya Sen and Nalanda University: Debunking a web of untruths - Alt News’ altnews.in/amartya-sen-and-n…

Will India’s SEBI & the Enforcement Directorate take cognisance of these investigative reports and investigate the fresh allegations? Or will there be an attempted cover-up, which is likely to fail? And will this new information come up before the Supreme Court of India, which is hearing the Adani-Hindenburg case? ft.com/content/8d46b435-9725… theguardian.com/world/2023/a…

Is the Indian election turning? The stock markets, the benchmark indices, among other indicators, certainly suggest that it is turning. Is the I.N.D.I.A. bloc — not quite an alliance but a strategic political arrangement with built-in internal contradictions that has some of the attributes of an alliance in States where the constituents are not arrayed against each other — delivering significantly better than predicted by the opinion polls? This brings to mind Winston Churchill’s famous observation to a senior British general at the end of the Second World War: “There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them!”

After the grave and indefensible breach of rules laid down for regulatory officials — confirmed in public documents from the Registrar of Companies that have been independently accessed and analysed by Reuters — SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch does not have a leg to stand on. She must be immediately sacked by the government that has been protecting her. Read this Reuters report in The Hindu of August 17, 2024:

Bravo Venki! Nobel Winner Ramakrishnan Slams Amit Shah’s Argument, Condemns Citizenship Amendment Bill thequint.com/news/politics/n…

Tamil Nadu pioneers another much-needed welfare scheme other States must emulate — breakfast for children in government primary schools across the State “When schools whet the appetite of students, and feed them,” The Hindu, September 3, 2023 thehindu.com/news/national/t…

How idiotic! The calibre of your disinformation is pathetic, beneath contempt.

Thank you very much, Chief Minister.

Here’s a good — well-planned, revealing, and meticulously documented and verified — investigation by Newslaundry and The News Minute into the patterns of political funding in India: ‘Part 1: Behind the BJP’s rise and rise, bonds, trusts and raids on corporates’: ‘Corporate funding of politics is a controversial subject. More so in India, where most of the money in recent years has gone to only one party. But there is a pattern to this money flow.’ newslaundry.com/2024/02/20/b… ‘Part 2: 30 firms who donated Rs 335 cr to BJP were also stung by I-T, ED’: newslaundry.com/2024/02/21/p… ‘Part 3: How BJP became the biggest beneficiary of UPA’s Electoral Trust scheme’: newslaundry.com/2024/02/23/p…

Views from a vantage position at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai — Pakistan vs Afghanistan, October 23, 2023, before a sporting crowd that appreciates & applauds good cricket from both sides.

Whatever be your political or ideological orientation, be proud of what Kerala under the LDF government has achieved thus far: ‘Coronavirus | For second day in a row, no new case in Kerala’: thehindu.com/news/national/c…

Watch Shashi Tharoor, grilled by Karan Thapar, emerge as the principal spokesman of, and the leading apologist for, the BJP government with respect to what might have led to the ceasefire between India and Pakistan and what the Trump administration’s role might have been in this regard. At a time when Congress leaders and elected representatives are asking questions and demanding answers from the Government, Tharoor’s smug assertions and “educated guesses” seem calculated to make his party squirm. Are we missing something political here? piped.video/live/W6apgek9qAQ…

And Sachin Tendulkar pontificating that “External forces can be spectators but not participants” is laughable. Is expressing an opinion ‘participation’?If Tendulkar wishes his opinion to be respected, he should stick to cricket and matters he is knowledgeable about.

What I said was that The Hindu, like other media organisations, took a big hit on ad revenue during the pandemic; and separately that central government advertising stopped after we published the Rafale investigative stories — but we will not bend. The video makes this clear.

Don’t miss the findings of this exclusive data-based analysis of the electoral bonds scandal by The Hindu and an independent research team, The Hindu, April 3, 2024:

Don’t miss this — PTR (Tamil Nadu IT Minister, Dr Palanivel Thiaga Rajan), erudite and crystal clear as usual, on the key issues behind electoral bonds and why these bonds go against the grain and very heart of constitutional democracy.

And this in the 75th year of our Republic! “MP: Dalit Sarpanch Denied a Chair in Gram Sabha, Told to Bring One from Home or Stand” en.themooknayak.com/dalit-ne…

A sort of prediction: If you were a political observer keen on protecting constitutional values & the secular character of the republic, wouldn’t you say this is the right moment for Rahul Gandhi to make a meaningful re-entry as party leader, re-energised and up for the fight?

What a fall, my fellow citizens, but is this a total suprise?

Let’s pay our respects to the 101 journalists in India who lost their lives to Covid-19. Here’s the list. Tragically, we’re still counting…

This is a fight for the very idea of India: Rahul Gandhi - The Hindu thehindu.com/elections/lok-s…

Investigative reports by N. Ram on the Rafale deal - The Hindu thehindu.com/news/national/i…

Give due credit to Poonam Agarwal, who back in 2018 as a journalist with The Quint, bought an electoral bond for Rs 1000 to do an investigative story. She had a forensic test done on the bond which revealed a unique number. This unique number has enabled data journalists to connect the purchaser of the bond to the party that received and encashed it. Watch this interview with Ms Agarwal in The News Minute piped.video/watch?v=YyCcmdcb… and read this report in The Wire: thewire.in/politics/unique-n…. And finally, “using the unique numbers of each bond, The Hindu has matched the name of the purchaser to the party that encashed it. The date of purchase, the amount of the bond and the date of encashment is also listed for each bond.” thehindu.com/data/electoral-…

Read this article on India’s interceptor missile capability published in The Hindu in March 2011: Capability to neutralise enemy satellites proved - The Hindu thehindu.com/news/national/C…

Thank you for your interpretation. But this is not about the PMO “pushing” the duly constituted Indian Negotiating Team “hard”. It is about opening a parallel track of negotiations behind the back of the INT and “undermining” the Indian negotiating position, in favour of France.

I have nothing to do with this. What I can assure you is that we will do our very best to prevent The Hindu’s “hard-earned” reputation and legacy of 142+ years “being squandered away”.

Well done Pratik and Alt News. Your fact-investigation & fact-checking work is invaluable — world class — in the fight against disinformation & misinformation. More power to Alt News as a journalistic resource and public good.

The coronavirus slayer! How Kerala's rock star health minister helped save it from Covid-19, The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2020/m…

The evidence against SEBI chairperson is piling up — “SEBI chief Madhabi Puri Buch did not recuse herself from Adani probe, says board member,” well-researched article in scroll.in scroll.in/article/1072617/se…

Blocking the website of a century-old magazine group for publishing a cartoon provides rich material for a hundred cartoonists — imagine what the genius R.K. Laxman would have done with this one! Oppose the arbitrary and lawless — Orwellian — assault on freedom of expression by India’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Stand in solidarity with VikatanForFreedomOfExpression.

How impartial and fair is the current Election Commission of India? Read this editorial in the Deccan Herald, “Election calendar suits BJP well”. deccanherald.com/opinion/fir…

Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar is completely out of line in making these over-the-top and outrageous comments targeting the Judges of the Supreme Court of India in the wake of the historic judgment in The State of Tamil Nadu…Petitioner(s) versus The Governor of Tamil Nadu & Anr…Respondent(s) [Civil Original Jurisdiction: Writ Petition (Civil) No. 1239 of 2023]. Is this not an egregious case of the executive pressuring the highest Court in the land to fall in line? ————————————————————- From the report: “So, we have judges who will legislate, who will perform executive functions, who will act as super Parliament and absolutely have no accountability because the law of the land does not apply to them,” Mr. Dhankhar said. The Vice-President also described Article 142 of the Constitution, which gives the Supreme Court the power to issue orders that ensure “complete justice” in any matter before it, as a “nuclear missile against democratic forces available to the judiciary 24x7”. “There is a directive to the President by a recent judgment. Where are we heading? What is happening in the country? We have to be extremely sensitive. It is not a question of someone filing a review or not. We never bargained for democracy for this day. President being called upon to decide in a time-bound manner, and if not, becomes law,” Mr. Dhankhar said. The Vice-President said his worries were at a “very highest level” and he never thought in his life that he would have the occasion to see it. ———————— “Judiciary can’t attack forces of democracy, says Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Supreme Court verdict”- The Hindu thehindu.com/news/national/v…

The Election Commission of India has badly let down the Indian voter. It has failed a tough test that is vital to electoral democracy.

It’s absurd for the Ministry of External Affairs to issue a statement chastising people, including celebrities, outside India for exercising their right of free speech in support of the agitating farmers! “Rihanna angers Indian government with tweet...” theguardian.com/world/2021/f…

Fact-check: Call out the bigoted and casteist coterie targeting T.M. Krishna and The Music Academy for its choice of Krishna as Sangita Kalanidhi for the 2024 annual conference and concerts — which Hindutva disinformation text is the small coterie of musicians reading from? Here below is a link to T.M. Krishna’s erudite and nuanced long-form essay on M.S. Subbulakshmi, genius of song. Agree with it, disagree with it, but does this read like “insulting…MS”? Krishna concludes his assessment thus: “She was determined, strong, focussed, committed, and brave. She was also introspective, innocent, and fragile. The Carnatic world, for its part, has simplified her music and boxed it into either of two categories: the celestial, or the ordinary. But her music was both, and everything that lies in between. She, and her music, will never cease to bewitch us. They will only ever continue to raise the unanswered question about where the real MS resides.” “MS Understood: The myths and misconceptions around MS Subbulakshmi, India’s most acclaimed musician,” Arts/Essay by T.M. Krishna published in The Caravan, October 1, 2015: caravanmagazine.in/reportage…

Read this important editorial: Undeclared Emergency: The Hindu Editorial on the arrests in the Newsclick case - The Hindu thehindu.com/opinion/editori…

A dark day indeed for the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression, guaranteed by our republican Constitution and central to our freedom struggle.

Support the Dainik Bhaskar Group. Let us be clear: the crude, mala fide raids on this media group are in retaliation against its brave journalism, its investigation & exposé of the catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic crisis by the Hindutva Authoritarianism Regime (HAR).

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Welcome the Supreme Court of India’s no-nonsense interim order putting the State Bank of India on notice for potential punitive action against it for wilful disobedience of court and directing the bank to submit by tomorrow, March 12, detailed information on electoral bonds and the parties that received them, as specified in its judgment of February 15, 2024 (see screenshot in next post)— and let’s see what comes out of the black box and is shared with the Election Commission of India tomorrow and, more interestingly, what is revealed at the ECI’s website by 5 pm on March 15: thehindu.com/news/national/e…

It’s extraordinarily difficult and emotionally wrenching to come to terms with the death of Sitaram Yechury (August 12, 1952-September 12, 2024), a friend and comrade of close to 50 years. Sita was brilliant, versatile, charismatic, empathetic, and amiable — and his life was a model of purity, integrity, commitment, sacrifice, and ideological and political accomplishment. As the CPI(M) Polit Bureau’s statement of homage points out, his untimely death “at this crucial juncture in our national politics is a big blow to the CPI(M) and a grievous loss for the Left, democratic, and secular forces.” The people of India have lost of their finest sons.

Fali Nariman, India’s most eminent lawyer and jurist, tells Rajdeep Sardesai that in its judgment upholding the abolition of the special status of Jammu & Kashmir, the “Supreme Court failed to recognise that abrogation of article 370 even if it is a temporary provision was not done in the right constitutional manner as should have been done through a constitutional amendment.” piped.video/watch?v=WrooFx…

Read this important interview by The Hindu with Amartya Sen on the Election Commission of India’s so-called Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, the dangers of targeted disenfranchisement of groups of citizens, alleged atrocities against Bengali migrant workers in BJP-ruled States, and efforts to promote Hindutva in West Bengal, which has a long and proud history of Hindu-Muslim cordiality and cooperation.

Read Prakash Raj’s moving and beautifully narrated story of Umar Khalid’s five-year incarceration and the wider socio-political message it sends: “The unfinished fight of an ‘anti-national’,” published as the editorial page main article in The Hindu, April 17, 2025: thehindu.com/opinion/lead/pr…

The ‘Kerala model’ is also a model for complete transparency & elegant communication of what’s been happening in the battle against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19): GoK Dashboard | Official Kerala COVID-19 Statistics dashboard.kerala.gov.in/inde…

The misuse of official agencies to target Opposition political leaders has reached ugly new levels. It is no coincidence that the Enforcement Directorate has been let loose against another Tamil Nadu Minister, K. Ponmudy, at a time Opposition leaders are meeting in Bengaluru.

SC decision on Rafale case review pleas: Red-letter day for the press, says N. Ram thehindu.com/news/national/s…

A timely and statesmanlike gesture by Prime Minister Imran Khan, this should help de-escalate a dangerous situation: “IAF Pilot Abhinandan Varthaman: Pakistan To Release Pilot Abhinandan Varthaman Tomorrow As "Gesture Of Peace".’ ndtv.com/india-news/pakistan…

This well-reasoned editorial page article in The Hindu of February 9, 2022 by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin explains how and why NEET is unacceptable — and how The NEET Exemption Bill defends the right to education & social rights & upholds the State’s rights:

The right thing: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin announces a full Statewide lockdown from 4 am, Monday, May 10 to 4am, Monday, May 24. He has released a detailed explanation for why this has become necessary & unavoidable.

Viral: Fake quotes by world leaders offering support to India over tensions with China - Alt News altnews.in/viral-fake-quotes…

A superb educative response from Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Dr Palanivel Thiaga Rajan (PTR): ndtv.com/video/exclusive/no-…

A must read for anyone who wishes to understand what’s going on in India.

Every State should adopt such a law: West Bengal Assembly passes bill against mob lynching, Congress and CPI(M) back legislation scroll.in/latest/935709/west… via @scroll_in