JNU has been in the eye of a storm lately — after its students protested and held Delhi hostage following a fee hike, questions were raised about the subsidies that the Indian taxpayer provides to the university. India’s taxpayers contribute nearly Rs. 300 crore a year towards the running of […]
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Sushma Swaraj’s Husband Is Sharing Her Memories On Twitter, And It’s The Sweetest Thing You’ll Read Today
During her tenure as India’s External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj had wielded Twitter like a weapon. Through the service, she helped people with their passport applications, she had helped travelers who were stranded abroad, and she even managed to bring human trafficking victims back to India. Ever since her death […]
Google Searches For “Plogging” Rise More Than 10,000 Percent After PM Modi Photoshoot
PM Modi isn’t only taking India to the world — he’s instituted the World Yoga Day, and made world leaders wear his trademark jackets in the past — but he also seems to be bringing some of the world’s best ideas back home. Google searches for “plogging” have risen more […]
The Chilling Similarities Between The Hate Speech Of The Fired NPR Producer And The Pulwama bomber
If it looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck..it probably is a duck. NPR producer Furkan Khan recently tweeted out this message: If Indians give up Hinduism, they will solve most of their problems, what will all the piss drinking and the dung worshiping. Khan was pilloried for […]