A lightly edited version of this article, written with Karuna Gopal, appeared on Firstposthere. Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man who tried to shoot Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania, was 20 years old. Thankfully, the former President survived the attack. We know that nobody in the US establishment likes Donald Trump. Nobody knows how Continue reading From America to the Balkans: A history of the 20 year oldassassin

A lightly edited version of this article, written with Karuna Gopal, appeared on Firstposthere. It seems that the Congress party is bitter about Prime Minister Modi. Somehow this bitterness seems to increase whenever the Prime Minister goes abroad. Now in his third term, the Prime Minister has just returned from a trip to Austria. And Continue reading With his role in the emergence of Austria, did Nehru help whitewash crimes ofNazism?

An edited version of this article, written with Karuna Gopal, appeared on News18 here. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is back for a third term. No Prime Minister has managed such a thing since 1962. How big is this? What does it mean for the BJP? What does it mean for the Congress and the Nehru-Gandhi Continue reading How Narendra Modi has made electoralhistory

A lightly edited version of this article, written jointly with Karuna Gopal, appeared on News18here. How many Indians were murdered by the government during the Emergency? If you have never heard this question before, you should wonder why. The answer is two thousand men. They were kidnapped randomly, from trains, from the fields, anywhere. Sometimes, Continue reading The Nazi roots of the Emergency in India, and the legacy of hardsocialism

A lightly edited version of this article, written jointly with Karuna Gopal, appeared in the New Indian Expresshere. Did India become richer or poorer during the UPA years? And how does the Modi government compare? At first, it may seem difficult to compare across different eras. For instance, the UPA had to deal with the Continue reading Did UPA or Modi do better on the economy: what the datasays

A lightly edited version of this article, written jointly with Karuna Gopal, appeared on News18here. Dhruv Rathees two recent videos on supposed dictatorship in India have gone viral on Youtube. Together, they have gathered over 40 million views. Most of those people will never be able to take him on with the right questions. How Continue reading Debunking the false narrative of Dhruv Rathee on dictatorship inIndia

A lightly edited version of this article, written jointly with Karuna Gopal, appeared on Firstpost here. The electoral bonds are gone now. But we have to ask what was achieved by this moral panic. Did it make anything better? No, every party will now go back to a cash system. But they got a win Continue reading Just look at the data : Why there was never a scam in electoralbonds