The Penguin

Pakistan has restored pre partition names for multiple locations. Babri Masjid Chowk is now Jain Mandir Chowk. Rehman Gali is now Ram Gali. Islampura is now Krishan Nagar. Mustafabaad is Dharampura Many other changes listed below. Good to see this !!

Fun fact: the cultural distance between North and South India is actually greater than that between North India and Pakistan.

Pakistan is restoring area names in Lahore 🇵🇰 Islampura → Krishan Nagar Rehman Gali → Ram Gali Sunnat Nagar → Sant Nagar Babri Masjid Chowk → Jain Mandir Chowk Mustafabad → Dharampura Pakistan is secure in its identity and being an Islamic State it never fears other religions or cultures. Now compare this with the so-called secular country "India" 🇮🇳 👀

This entire Meloni thing is so cringe. Just playing to the gallery to distract from real issues.

“I told PM Modi that you may have the 5th largest economy in the world but the world respects Gandhi more. The world has not named streets after you like they have for Nehru. I told Modi this and he winced,” says US Congressman Ro Khanna

This cartoon, which I assumed wrongly was from some cheap tabloid but was published in Aftenposten, Norway's largest newspaper and "paper of record", isn't a great advertisement of supposedly superior journalistic standards.

What bogus gyaan is the self-styled but thoroughly exposed Vishwaguru giving to the Dutch PM who actually called him out?

A decade of BJP rule has done overwhelming damage to public discourse in India. It's not just Whatsapp university, but even serious scholarship that has gone to shit. Never has independent India's intellectual landscape, which was not exactly overflowing with rigor to begin with, looked this degenerate. The article below is a typical example. Until a decade ago, this sort of civilizational fan-fiction would've been dismissed as fringe crankery, and laughed out of respectable publications. Today, it has become mainstream and is marketed as serious scholarship. Putting aside the unstated (and false) claim of this article that Hindu rulers and dynasties were all saints, unlike those evil Mughals, note the other equally horrific implication: that the old Nehruvian obligation to appease Muslims has expired. Of course you can't say "Muslims" directly, whether in a speech in Gujarat in 2002, or in an online history article in 2026. At least not yet. So you use euphemisms, like "Mughals". In 1947, the logic goes, when India was a newly independent country, we had to tolerate those pesky Muslims for the sake of national unity. We had no choice but to put up with their shenanigans (i.e. treat them as equals). But now, the time has come to remind them of their "proper" place in the hierarchy.

Then go ahead and make a film based on the Ramayana or Mahabharata without casting a single Indian in it. I'm sure the Indians would react just as politely...

The King and Queen leave Buckingham Palace by carriage procession as they travel to the Palace of Westminster for the State Opening of Parliament.

It takes guts to speak against the govt. Andhbhakts and Sanghi don’t have that courage, but we do.

Brave - TMC chief Mamata Banerjee pens a poem, after her party’s defeat