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India’s Cockroach Janta party protest victory signals trouble ahead for Modi

Ally forced to resign, with opposition parties reinvigorated and strongman leader’s grip over media channels rocked

The Guardian - UK · Jul 26

Be it NEET or Ayodhya, BJP’s accountability problem is getting harder to hide. Media must keep asking

Accountability and corruption. These two words are now haunting the Modi government. Not just because of the ongoing protests by the Cockroach Janta Party and its followers in New Delhi demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the leak of the NEET examination papers. The bigger story…

Newslaundry · Jul 9

Trump’s demand that India stop buying Russian oil puts Modi in tight spot

Prime minister faces a choice between high tariffs or giving up cheap oil, putting New Delhi’s non-alignment policy under severe strain

The Guardian - UK · Aug 4, 2025

Row at India’s premier private university sparks debate on academic freedom

Ashoka University is accused of stifling academic freedom after it distances itself from a research paper on 2019 polls.

Al Jazeera · Aug 28, 2023

Beyond Putinism: Ukraine war commentary shows how Hegelian binaries run into blind spots

There are points of ferment in world politics when one is tempted to define the zeitgeist of the current or the emerging world order. Many times the tumult is cast in a way that it takes the form of a Hegelian contest of ideas and the systems representing them; sometimes…

Newslaundry · Apr 26, 2022

Indians reluctant to denounce Russian ‘brothers’ over Ukraine

While street-level opinion is even-handed, commentators from right and left are converging on the war

The Guardian - UK · Mar 27, 2022

#HaftaLetters: A critique of Anand Vardhan’s Article 370 piece

Hello NL Team,

Newslaundry · Aug 24, 2019