May Month Article

• ‘Khan Market Gang’: India’s Modi Mocks His Elite Adversaries
  • Mayank Bhardwaj
    A tatty shopping center originally built to house refugees in the heart of New Delhi has become a handy symbol for Prime Minister Narendra Modi..…

• Muslim mother changes child’s name from ‘Narendra Modi’ to ‘Mohammed Altaf Modi’, claims pressure from family and community
  • Opindia.com
    In Uttar Pradesh recently, a Muslim woman had named her newborn son ‘Narendra Modi’ after the Prime Minister...…

• Lata chides Savarkar's detractors
  • Ambarish Mishra
    Lata Mangeshkar on Tuesday paid glowing tributes to Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar to commemorate his 136th birth anniversary..…

• From a falsehood, anything
  • Surendra Chandra
    That the Hindutva project of the Sangh Parivar is catalyzing a nation’s rising above such differences would be a cause for celebration in any rational country...…

• Kin of BJP workers killed in Bengal to be at swearing-in
  • Akhilesh Singh and Dipak K Dash
    BJP has invited families of over 50 party workers killed in political violence in West Bengal to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the Narendra Modi government on Thursday...…

• Read this before deciding whether Savarkar was a British stooge or strategic nationalist
  • Vikram Sampath
    Rahul Gandhi’s selective quoting of Savarkar’s prison petition is intellectually disingenuous....…

• Rahul Gandhi and Congress might insult Veer Savarkar now, but this is what Indira Gandhi had to say about the freedom fighter
  • Opindia.com
    Veer Savarkar has departed from this world in 1966 with his reputation unsullied. No amount of fake research and slander will tarnish it....…

• Reinventing the brand
  • Sandhya Jain
    Modi’s victory marks a tectonic shift in the history of the republic. He may have seemed presidential but the spirit was republican...…

• Hidden within Narendra Modi's masterclass to first-time MPs is a strong critique of the state of India's media
  • Sreemoy Talukdar
    It is rarely that we get insights into the mind of Narendra Modi, the politician who is redefining politics in our era.....…

• Constitution is meant to preserve integrity of nation and institutions; romanticising it is like confusing medium for message
  • J Sai Deepak
    Every value, concept, construct, ideology, language or even faith, no matter how universal or universalist it may be or claims to be.…

• Dear Gautam Gambhir, just like in cricket, in politics, timing is everything
  • Editorial Desk
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi came back to power with a thumping, blinding majority begging 303 seats...…

• Why and How Pakistani Christian Girls Are Smuggled to China
  • Irfan Yar
    The dark side of the two countries’ “iron brotherhood”: human trafficking...….

• I am a Modi Supporter in a Media Office Watching the Ultimate Liberal Meltdown
  • Mamlesh Tiwari
    Looks like it’s going to be Phir Ek Baar Modi Sarkar. As Narendra Modi is set to make a comeback.….

• Rahul Gandhi: India served you 17 ‘Andas’
  • IENewsDesk.com
    The drubbing at the Lok Sabha 2019 General Elections is an eye-opener for the Congress but it is also a tight mental and emotional slap on the face of one man..….

• The Left has lost its deposit. It is time for the Right to fight Modi
  • Anand Ranganathan
    To build a Right-wing Ecosystem would be to replicate a Left-wing ecosystem. Nothing could be more tragic...….

• Rahul Gandhi: India served you 17 ‘Andas’
  • IENewsDesk.com
    The drubbing at the Lok Sabha 2019 General Elections is an eye-opener for the Congress but it is also a tight mental and emotional slap on the face of one man..….

• Therefore
  • Chitra Subramaniam
    Therefore the resounding victory of the Narendra Modi led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the 2019 elections means many things….

• In Backward Regions Of A Backward State, Modi Is The Choice
  • Kunal Purohit 
    Ramgarh district (Jharkhand): The way to Malhar Toli was difficult to find, partly because there is no road to this untidy hamlet of around 250.….

• Crores of people of Bharat are fortunate to once again have a stable government
  • Bhayyaji Joshi
    Crores of people of Bharat are fortunate to once again have a stable government. This is the triumph of the national forces.…..

• Dear New York Times, India has chosen Modi 2.0, deal with it
  • Sanghamitra
    Modi's win thumps the arrival of a unified, assertive and proud India that has finally learnt to bury its faultlines and look forward into the future.…..

• LS Results: PM Modi's mother greets media outside residence
  • Aninews.in
    With trends showcasing BJP-led NDA's comfortable victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections…..

• ‘EVMS cannot be hacked, they are tamper-proof,’ the unequivocal verdict of various Courts on EVMs
  • Opindia.com
    The Opposition parties and their sympathizers have initiated a tirade against EVMs….

• Narendra Modi's 'Khan Market gang' jibe sums up disempowerment of elites, rise of new middle class with a voice
  • Sreemoy Talukdar
    With his "Khan Market gang" jibe, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has introduced a new lexicon in political discourse that appears to have rubbed his rivals and critics the wrong way.…..

• The message of exit polls: 6 messages from voters to politicians, writes Arun Jaitley
  • Arun Jaitley
    Many of us may continue to squabble over correctness and accuracy of the Exit Polls. The hard reality is that when multiple Exit Polls convey the same message…..

• ‘Journalist sitting in a political party’s lap is calling others godi media’, Aaj Tak’s Rohit Sardana hits out at NDTV’s Ravish Kumar
  • Opindia.com
    After two journalists at Aaj Tak, Anjana Om Kashyap and Shweta Singh, made sly comments rebutting their colleague..…..

• The Beginning Of The End For Mamata Banerjee?
  • Jaideep Mazumdar
    Mamata Banerjee was gifted a golden opportunity in 2011 to transform Bengal, which had been ravaged for three decades under communist rule..…..

• Bhakt, Gaumutra and how hate for modi is affecting Hinduism worldwide. A thread-
  • Ananya
    Couple of days ago a friend from Assam posted a story in which she was blaming modi for a local incident which ultimately turned out to be a fake news..…...

• The Mundari: The tribe dying for their cows
  • Thomas Page
    South Sudan is the world's youngest country, and it has witnessed immense change since gaining independence in 2011..…...

• Will Modi Meditating be the Defining Moment of This Election?
  • Rajat Mitra
    The picture of Modi sitting in the cave with his eyes closed, meditating reminded me of a picture from another era from childhood.…...

• Mob, supported by Congress & SP MLAs, offers Namaz on highway & pelts stones on police: Kanpur, UP
  • Hindupost.in
    A mob in Kanpur blocked a busy highway by offering namaz and pelted stones on police after authorities tried to disconnect electricity connections of tanneries in the city’s Jajmau area.…...

• The side of Rabindranath Tagore that ‘Liberal Intellectuals’ don’t want you to see: Here is what he thought of Islam
  • K Bhattacharjee
    Over time, a certain effort has been made by the intellectual Bengali elite to recast cultural icons of yore into stereotypes that fit perfectly with their own imaginations.…...

• Activist opposing Akshaya Patra’s mid-day meal contract thinks ‘Brahmins obstruct India’s development’
  • K Bhattacharjee
    A prominent activist associated with the Right to Food campaign, Dr Sylvia Karpagam, who wants Akshaya Patra’s mid-day meals…...

• Lanka deports 600 clerics, including 100 Indians
  • The Pioneer
    Out of the 600 foreigners including 200 hardcore maulvis (Muslim religious preachers) deported by Colombo over the last week after the suicide bombings there…...

• Once a Naxal, Now a Commando: 30 Women Pick Up Weapons to End 'Hollow Ideology' of Extremists
  • Raunak Shivhare
    The all-women anti-Maoist force is made of two groups of 30 highly trained women commandos, who are trained by Dantewada police.…...

• Nehru’s Himalayan UN gaffe: File on permanent UNSC membership offer to India must be traced and declassified
  • DP Srivastava
    Over past few years, a number of articles have appeared on the offer of permanent membership of UN Security Council to India in the 1950s..…...

• Narendra Modi's 'Khan Market gang' jibe sums up disempowerment of elites, rise of new middle class with a voice
  • Sreemoy Talukdar
    With his "Khan Market gang" jibe, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has introduced a new lexicon in political discourse that appears to have rubbed his rivals and critics the wrong way.…...

• NDTV’s Prannoy Roy says youth voting for a strong leader is ‘worrying’, twists voter’s statements to further his own agenda
  • Nupur J Sharma
    The 2019 Lok Sabha election has seen “journalists” who have thus far pretended to be neutral while subtly …...

• Zakir Naik Says Won’t Come To India Till BJP Is In Power; Claims Situation Was Better Under Previous Regime
  • Swarajyamag.com
    Controversial Islamist preacher Zakir Naik has said that he will not come back to India as the situation is not favourable for his return in the tenure of Bharatiya Janata Party…...

• RSS And Freedom Struggle: Separating Facts From Fiction, Propaganda From History
  • Aravindan Neelakandan
    Recently, another article appeared in the media which claimed that during the Indian freedom struggle…...

• Media tries to provoke Khan Market merchants against PM Modi, get a befitting response
  • Opindia.com
    Just a few days ago, Prime Minister Modi, in his interview to Indian Express had slammed the ‘Khan Market gang’. …...

• The intolerance of Time
  • Sandhya Jain
    Nation-centric leaders like Putin and Modi are being subjected to a dominant Western narrative of leadership. Modi’s rise is actually a revolt against the Nehruvian order…...

• Here is what vindictive Rajiv Gandhi did after Indian Express covered the story of his INS Viraat vacation
  • Opindia.com
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened the Pandora’s box when he mentioned Rajiv Gandhi’s vacation in Lakshadweep when he and his family…...

• When Manmohan Singh blamed RSS for 1984 Sikh genocide
  • Opindia.com
    During the 1999 Lok Sabha elections, senior Congress leader and former Prime Minister, who was contesting…...

• The Economist Or the Pulp Fiction?
  • Milind Sathye
    The Economist editorial is an example of frustration of a section of the British who feel jealous that India under Modi is becoming stronger by the day..…...

• The Left massacre of migrant Hindus in Bengal that was bigger than 2002 & 1984
  • Deep Halder
    Not much is known about the Marichjhapi massacre that took place under the Jyoti Basu government on a tiny island in the Sundarbans where Hindu refugees had settled.…...

• No, Aatish Taseer, ‘Nehruvian Secularism’ will not endure another five years of Modi government and that’s a good thing
  • K Bhattacharjee
    The cover story if Time Magazine, penned by Aatish Taseer, son of Indian journalist Tavleen Singh and late Pakistani politician and businessman Salman Taseer…...

• OPINION | How Rajiv Gandhi's 10-year Era Made India a Colony of Mere 5,000 'Loyalists'
  • Akhilesh Mishra
    When Rajiv Gandhi could have used his historic mandate to change the destiny of India, he used it to organise melas in Delhi and poverty tourism in remote corners of India.…...

• Italian journalist accuses journalist Ajai Shukla of being sexist, calls journalist Karan Thapar a liar
  • Opindia.com
    Italian journalist Francesca Marino has accused journalist Ajai Shukla of being sexist person ‘who reached the bottom attacking her on sexist and insulting bases’..…...

• Previous govts were soft on Muslim radicalisation and terror due to political reasons, former RAW officer reveals
  • Opindia.com
    Former Raw officer Amar Bhushan maintains that the agencies never got a free hand under the previous government to act against radicalisation and terrorism down South.…...

• TIME magazine cover shows the globalization of Hinduphobia
  • Abhishek Banerjee
    If some people in the West foolishly believe that the Hindu swastika has something to do with Nazis, the liberal is quite happy to let them keep believing that.. …...

• Italian journalist accuses journalist Ajai Shukla of being sexist, calls journalist Karan Thapar a liar
  • Opindia.com
    Italian journalist Francesca Marino has accused journalist Ajai Shukla of being sexist person ‘who reached the bottom attacking her on sexist and insulting bases’. …...

• The Real Legacy of Rajiv Gandhi that the Congress does not want you to know
  • Shwetank Bhushan
    A couple of days back, Prime Minister Modi called late former PM Rajiv Gandhi “Corrupt No 1” at an election rally in Basti.…...

• Exclusive: The Bofors scam angle to Rajiv Gandhi’s vacation on-board INS Viraat
  • Nupur J Sharma
    While Sonia's Italian family on board an Indian Naval warship is a matter of concern on its own…...

• Claims of William Dalrymple on Babur debunked by Babur himself
  • Aabhas K Maldahiyar
    William Dalrymple, author of several books and a favorite of the Lutyens historians, recently in a vile tweet claimed that 'Babur scarcely refers to Islam.…...

• BJP Demands Apology over Sam Pitroda's 'So What' Remarks on 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots
  • News18.com
    Accusing Sam Pitroda for playing with public feelings, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said the comments were 'shocking'.…...

• NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks To China, India
  • Trevor Nace
    NASA has some good news, the world is a greener place today than it was 20 years ago. What prompted the change?…...

• #PGurusImpact NewsX covers PGurus Balakot Air Strike interview with Francesca Marino and Abhijit Iyer-Mitra
  • Sahil Mishra
    NewsX coverage on PGurus Balakot Air Strike and Debate on it with Sree Iyer and Francesca Marino.…...

• Veer Savarkar: The Man And Mission Beyond The Mercy Petitions
  • Aravindan Neelakandan
    Analysing Savarkar’s mercy petitions without looking at his life before and after them would be gross injustice to the freedom fighter...…...

• Jharkhand: Missionary school head, 5 others convicted in gangrape case
  • zeenews.india.com
    Additional District Judge Rajesh Kumar found the six them guilty and will pronounce the quantum of sentence on May 15..…...

• The Economist & the art of eternal daydreaming
  • Vijay Chauthaiwale
    Its claim of a raging Hindu-Muslim divide by the current government is also equally baseless.…...

• Dutch marauders Occupation of Tiruchendur Temple in 1648-53
  • Sanskriti Magazine
    The Murugan temple at Thiruchendur was occupied by the Dutch East India company between the years 1646 to 1648…...

• Girls and Guns: Celebrating four tough women cops who nabbed the most dreaded gangster of Gujarat
  • Deepansh Duggal
    Once upon a time, we had to search hard for tales of women warriors who wielded weapons with ruthless pizzazz.…...

• Temple In Ayodhya Is a Must – Swami Chinmayananda
  • Arise Bharat
    Interview to Sri Ram Madhav, then Editorial in Charge, “Vande Bharat Mataram” in Jan 1993…...

• “Joy Shri Rama”: Rise Of The Unapologetic Hindu
  • M.Ritam.App
    The Ramayana and Rama unite India culturally. In the 1990s, they turned into symbols of political unity. Today…...

• U.S. revokes citizenship of Portland mosque’s imam
  • Maxine Bernstein
    The U.S. government has revoked the U.S. citizenship of the former imam of Portland’s largest mosque after he arrived in Somaliland last week.…...

• A “surgical strike” on Manmohan Singh and no less by army generals
  • Ashish Shukla
    As bug zappers are to mosquitos in a room, Congress and its lies are similarly sounding a clang on being caught out in public sphere every living minute of this election.…...

• Deposits In Jan Dhan Accounts Inch Close To Rs 1 Lakh Crore
  • Pallavi Nahata
    Deposits in ‘Jan Dhan’ accounts, intended as a first step in reducing financial exclusion across India’s population.…...

• CPI(M) leader’s daughter dismissed from govt job months after her son attends BJP rally
  • Sreedevi Jayarajan
    Asha, daughter of CPI(M)’s MM Lawrence, alleged that her dismissal was politically motivated.…...

• UK’s ‘most dangerous extremist group’ regenerating after terrorist prisoners released
  • Lizzie Dearden
    Supporters of Anjem Choudary's al-Muhajiroun group seen street preaching and protesting in London.…...

• Rahul Gandhi and how the media has been making him ‘come of age’ for the past 10 years
  • Opindia.com
    This is the age of sequels and franchises. Whether it is our own Bahubali or Hollywood’s Avengers, this trend in films is the vogue now...…...

• Jharkhand: Muslim woman assaulted by husband for voting BJP, FIR lodged
  • Opindia.com
    In a shocking incident a Muslim woman in Chanho district, Ranchi, Jharkhand, was allegedly beaten up by her husband and family members for casting her vote in favour of BJP..…...

• “Was your party working with a crony capitalist by awarding projects over Rs 100,000 crore?” – Reliance Group hits back at Rahul Gandhi
  • Opindia.com
    Reliance Group said that Anil Ambani led company was awarded projects of over Rs. 1,00,000 crores by UPA government..…...

• Manmohan Singh launches surgical strike against truth
  • Virendra Kapoor
    Fearing complete rout, Congress invents mythical strikes to erode Modi magic..…...

• Sri Lanka Expels 600 Foreign Nationals Including 200 Islamic Clerics After Easter Bombings
  • Out Look India
    "Considering the current situation in the country, we have reviewed the visas system and took a decision to tighten visa restrictions for religious teachers," Sri Lanka Home Affairs Minister Vajira Abeywardena said.…...

• 3 Held For Chanting ‘Joy Sri Ram’ Near Mamata’s Convoy
  • Piku Mukherjee
    Three person named Sitaram Midya, Sayan Midya and Budhudeb Duloi has been arrested by Chandrokona police for their ‘Jai shri Ram’ chant near Mamata’s convoy.…...

• Suicide bombers visited Kashmir, Kerala for training: Sri Lanka Army chief
  • India Today.in
    The Sri Lankan Army commander has said suicide bombers who carried out a series of blasts in Sri Lanka travelled to India to receive training.…...

• No records of any previous "surgical strike": DGMO
  • The Economic Times
    The Directorate General of Military Operations of the Army does not have records of any "surgical strike" conducted before September 29, 2016.…...

• A Dynast’s non-Existent Revenge Against the Man who Defeated Him in 2014 – “I Dismantled PM’s
  • Arun Jaitly
    Dynasts have self-illusory opinion about themselves. They create a disproportionate image about their own…...

• Five Massacres That Every Indian Communist Must Be Reminded Of
  • Anirban Ganguly
    A recollection of the totalitarian and violent regime of Communists in Bengal.…...

• India rejected China’s terms for ban on JeM chief Masood
  • Indrani Bagchi
    In the course of the high-level exchanges between India and China, Beijing offered to lift its “technical hold” on Jaish-e-Muhammed chief Masood Azhar’s terror listing if India…...

• Lanco debacle : A perfect example of the banking sector mess Congress created
  • Jain Amitanshu
    Public Sector Banks’ (PSBs) Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) – this is one of the biggest frauds in recent Indian…...

• Sunetra Choudhury & NDTV's Honour
  • Media Crooks
    In January 2011 NDTV carried a recruitment ad in newspapers - Train with the best. The line below the picture reads…...

• Vishal Dadlani, Tehseen Poonawalla Fined Rs 10 Lakh For Insulting Jain Monk Tarun Sagar
  • Jayant Mundhra
    Punjab and Haryana High Court has disposed of an FIR against singer and composer Vishal Dadlani.…...

• Stop the Waffling: The Sri Lanka terror attack was definitively about religion. It was an Islamic attack on Christians. Why fudge the truth?
  • Vikram Sood
    When Christchurch happened, the liberal reaction was loud and clear, but when Colombo happened, there was a deafening silence.…...

• Barbarians Cannot Restore Islamic Cultural Glory
  • Ravi Shankar
    The Sri Lanka massacre proves without doubt that the civilised world and Islam are at war.…...