Disco Dancer: India’s First 100 Crore Movie. Cinema as an art is very versatile but when understood as commercial venture, it has the severe limitations. There are formulas of success but the…
Is India in Governance Crises?
Chapter 5 The Media Without Journalism India’s free press was constitutionally guaranteed. What was never guaranteed was that the press would want to use that freedom. It had freedom to criticise the…
Is India in Governance Crises?
Chapter 4 Lokpal: The Watchdog that Sets Wrong Example. India’s VIP culture in bureaucracy is not a side effect of governance. It is not a collection of bad actors in an otherwise…
India is Saraswati River Valley Civilization
Earliest Urban Civilization in the World. Civilisation of India is called Saraswati River Valley Civilization. Civilisation of India was wrongly believed to be limited to Mohanjodoro and Harrappa on the basis of…
Is India in Governance Crises?
Chapter 3 This was the question I had posed a few months back (in Chapter 1): If the bureaucracy, police, regulators, and enforcement apparatus are internally sabotaging the elected government, is this…
The Domestic Network that Connects Dhurandhar to Pakistan
Reasons for Opposition to Dhurandhar 2. Dhurandhar: Revenge is a movie about Pakistan’s institutional rot, but it produced an interesting side effect in India. Muslim politicians across the board opposed it. Alia…
What is so threatening in the Movie Dhurandhar: Revenge?
A Review of Dhurandhar: Revenge Dhurandhar in common parlance means someone extraordinarily capable. We assume that Ranveer Singh playing Hamza on screen is the Dhurandhar. Well, he is not. Clue lies in…
What USA Is Waiting for near Hormuz?
The Great Poker Game Unfolds near Hormuz War with Iran started on 28 February 2026 is now struck near strait of Hormuz. I had predicted, it was a commercial enterprise to strengthen…
From Dhurandhar One to the Boomerang of Critics
Producer of Dhurandhar Laughing on His Way to Bank. First part of movie Dhurandhar was released in 2025 and it invited the criticism similar to what its part 2 ‘Revenge’ has attracted….
A Satire on Journalism-Activism
A Satirical Advertisement This is a satire created by AI from my previous two articles which were the counterpoint to the articles of Raza Rumi opposing the Movie Dhurandhar: Revenge, published in…
The New Face of Journalism-Activism
Emergence of the Grant-Funded Journalism Professionals writing on contract are called copy-writers. Professionals writing for others e.g. biographies are called ghost writers. But these remain behind the scene. Their names remain hidden.Often…
Raza Rumi: The Critic Who Never Watched the Dhurandhar Movie, and the Pakistan He Never Visited
Dhurndhar Movie Critique without watching it. On 17 March 2026, two days before ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’ released in theatres, Raza Rumi published a piece in Himal Southasian calling Hindi cinema’s treatment of…
How to Review Movies? Is There a Scientific Method?
Introduction: Moving past the Old Yardsticks to Review Movies For decades, films have been judged primarily on star power, narrative originality, technical finesse, and box office returns. While these metrics remain relevant,…
Sheshnaag 150, India’s Loitering Drone
India, Preparing for the War of Future A decade back, drone was a word known only to bee keepers. Then came the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The Drones outshone all military…
Review of Google NotebookLM
NotebookLM Is Overhyped Google NotebookLM is being marketed as the greatest product. Repeated advertisement on YouTube forced me to try it. It is claimed to be the best tool for content creators….
Was the War on Iran, an Economic Compulsion for USA?
What Caused the War on Iran? The war on Iran started on 28 February 2026 and has entered attrition phase. USA seems helpless to conclude the war it started with fanfare under…
The Tale of Pakistan, the Chirping Sparrow
Tale of Two Sparrows India was once the golden sparrow. Pakistan emerged from that same bird. Today Pakistan is the injured sparrow nearly eaten by cats. India is reclaiming its original identity…
The British Suffering of Karma.
The Vanishing British Names from Public Life. British ruled India for approximately 175 years. There Officers created townships like Dalhousie and Lansdowne named after their surnames. The people behind those names vanished…
The LPG Policy Blind Spot in India
An Analysis of the 2026 LPG Crisis Is India in Governance Crises? (Chapter 2) How Three Decades of Policy Failure Left a Billion People Queuing for Gas. The Strait of Hormuz did…
Iran Declares Blockade of Strait of Hormuz
Why USA Seem Helpless? When USA alongside Israel declared Operation Epic Fury on Iran, on 28 February 2026, it avowed to change the regime and liberate the people of Iran. So far…
Pakistan Is a New Iran in Making
(Part 11) America Has Embraced the Jinx of Pakistan In geopolitics, a “jinx” forms when a system is so unstable that anyone who interacts with it gets damaged even without harm being…
How to Deal with America Today?
The Mast Elephant: Understanding America Today John Mearsheimer is one of the few Western political scientists willing to say what most others avoid. In an interview with Glen Diesen he asserts that…
War Between USA, Israel and Iran Part 6
Why War with Iran Will Have no Result? Abstract: The war with Iran did not begin with missiles. It began in 1924 when the Ottoman Caliphate collapsed and nobody answered the question…
Raisina Dialogue 2026 (Part 3)
(Part 3) Musings on Raisina Dialogue 2026 Shifting Sands of Time Time has one persistent habit. It changes. Humans have one persistent struggle, they refuse to acknowledge the change. Time changes for…
Academic Research of Tehran University of Iran Commenting on Politics of India
Research on India in Iran. Syed Mostafa Mostafavi is M.A. in Indian Studies from University of Tehran, Iran has written a research paper under the guidance Heshmat Sadat Moinifar, an Associate Professor…