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In this image posted on May 11, 2026, Indian Air Force's (IAF) Surya Kiran Aerobatic Team (SKAT) performs manoeuvres during the Somnath Amrut Mahotsav, which marks 75 years of the inauguration of the restored temple dedicated to the Hindu deity Shiva, at the temple, in Veraval, Gir Somnath district, Gujarat.

Howzat? An Air Show, 108 Horses and a Foreign Tour for Austerity!

13 May 2026

4 min read

Whatever the nature of the fiscal and economic crisis, if the country requires austerity, the leader should show by example, not by doing the opposite of what he preaches

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Howzat? An Air Show, 108 Horses and a Foreign Tour for Austerity!

The Chief Minister and his Nostradamus

Operation Epic Fury: Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing but Destruction

Attack on Iran, Wreckage of Diplomacy and Nuclear Regime Without Guardrails

Erasing Lutyens: The Man Who Built for Eternity, Not Himself

Ghost Newspapers That Exist for Government Advertising

A Peddler of an Immoral World, Epstein was Also its Product

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SATIRE: Rejoice the Fall of Medical College, Cave Dwellers

From No-Tolerance for Rapes to Support for Rapists

A Cyclone of Poor Response: A South Asia Story

Inventing an Enemy Within: ‘White Collar Hate’ to Combat ‘White Collar Terror’

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Fake Journalists: A Prescription Worse Than the Ailment

Common Concerns, Unbridgeable Gaps

India and Taliban: Meeting of Two Ideological Cousins

BJP is Fanning the Ladakh Flames into a Raging Inferno

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The Himalayan Deluge: Lessons from Ancient Wisdom, Scotland & Climate Diplomacy

If jailed, the PM Can be Removed Too: Is the reality that simple?

On What Indices Do We Measure Operation Sindoor’s ‘Success’?

If the photographs didn’t belong to the Pahalgam attackers, what were the actions based on?

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The Grand Circus of Indian Delegations Abroad

A Chance to be the Real Vishwa-guru: Is it Wishful?

Farooq caught in a tornado stirred by his friend Dulat

The Big ‘Deal’: Trump, Zelensky and the godi-media

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Inside MAGA team, clash of supremacists

NC’s silence will serve BJP’s aim of discrediting it

Two Messages from Bangladesh for Modi, But He May Shut His Eyes to Both

Modi’s delusion of divinity is a deviously crafted project

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The act of voting is a defiance against the forced silence of Kashmiris

From Khaliq-made-MLAs to BJP opting out of the contest, it’s worthwhile to view Indian elections from Kashmir lens

Who Should Speak For Revanna’s Victims? A PM Would, But A Megalomaniac Won’t

ECI’s Silence And Bias Are Devastating To Democracy

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Is This The First Light Of The Dawn?

Politics of imitation is nothing but surrender

The Self-Proclaimed Divine Incarnate Consolidates Political And Religious Power

Listen To The Anger And Pain Buried Beneath The Silence

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The ‘differently’ abled writers in an ecosystem of stenographers

Stuck in a long dark tunnel in the Himalayas

Imagined referendums, invisible public, no elections as a democratic experiment

The King and his courtiers

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Ceasefire Now: Silence Is Complicity And Evil

The Merry Party Time Over Article 370

Secluded Ghettos, Hardened Positions, Animosity Obstacles In Return Of KPS

Marginalia: Blood Thirsting Vindictive Zeal