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 […]
NDTV, Quint And Others Report Cost Of Deepotsava At Rs. 133 Crore, Actual Cost Was 1.33 Crore
This Diwali, India created history. By simultaneously lighting 5.51 lakh diyas in Ayodhya, India entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest display of oil lamps. The pictures of Ayodhya went viral, citizens toasted the creation of yet another world record, and the nation brought in its largest […]
Beneath His Accent, Shashi Tharoor Is Just Your Average Fake-News-Spreading WhatsApp Uncle
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is lionized by India’s liberals for his English — they fawn over his vocabulary, they swoon over his accent, and they proclaim him an intellectual because he uses words that they need a thesaurus to understand. But beneath Tharoor’s veneer of linguistic sophistication might lie what […]
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 […]
Former Congress Spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi Trolls Party 5 Months After Quitting
What’s the acceptable time period to start badmouthing your former employer after you’ve quit? Five months, if you ask Priyanka Chaturvedi. Former Congress Spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi today tore into the Congress party, five months after resigning as its National Spokesperson. “The social media of Congress continues to plumb new lows. […]
Urmila Matondkar Quits Congress 6 Months After Joining Party
The Lok Sabha elections are over, and chips are falling where they belong. Bollywood actress Urmila Matondkar, who’d joined the Congress in March this year right before the Lok Sabha elections, has now quit the party. “My political and social sensibilities refuse to allow vested interests in the party to […]