The deeper concern is not about Pakistan’s diplomatic ambitions, but about our own interpretive habits
Construction workers, sanitation staff, delivery personnel, factory hands, and security guards make metropolitan life possible. Yet, their concerns often enter mainstream consciousness only when they interrupt the rhythms of middle-class convenience.
Politics, at its most meaningful, is a moral and ideological engagement between power and the people. Yet today, it risks being hollowed out into a spectacle driven by branding.
Why did it take so very long for India to find its voice in the context of the multipronged attack on Iran?
Silence in such situations does not indicate consent . Rather, it becomes a condition imposed by circumstance, an unwritten clause in the contract of continued relevance.
Expressions once confined to the fringes now circulate in homes, classrooms, and online forums with alarming ease
Where Nehru confronted blocs, Carney confronts caprice and greed. Yet both respond to the same danger: that global order might be shaped by coercion rather than consent.
The backlash against Rahman is part of a larger pattern: artists, writers, academics, and journalists who warn against polarisation are cast as “anti-national”
Elections stripped of ideology signal the rise of “marketisation” of politics—parties become brands, candidates turn into commodities and voters are treated as consumers to be enticed
As election campaigns grow increasingly polarised, religious identity is being weaponised for political gain. It goes against India’s ideals and the norms and practices in any established democracy.
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