Radhika Ramaseshan

Manipur violence makes the @nytimes while most Indians are unaware what’s happening in our own country nytimes.com/2026/05/26/wor…

Rahul Gandhi asks Siddaramaiah to step down as Karnataka Chief Minister, make way for ‘future’. Ball is now in his court Smooth transition without animosity in a week is the expectation Siddaramaiah is currently the longest serving CM of Karnataka & Congress’ only OBC chief minister thesouthfirst.com/karnataka/rahu…

Not on Indian news channels but on Al Jazeera, explainers on how trump and netanyahu 's unjustified war on iran has led to a surge in the prices of gas, ammonia, sulphur and of course, oil. How war is wrecking havoc on agriculture.

Sharp Edge: I don’t like Raj era clubs and I will never become a member of one. So whatever happens to the Delhi Gym makes no difference to my life. And yes it may be unfair to charge only a nominal rent to a club that mostly caters to retired army officers & civil servants But if you are talking about unfairness why stop at veterans? Why not throw ministers out of their huge houses? Why not take away their motorcades? Ground their private planes? Today’s Lutyens elite comprises politicians who have run Lutyens Delhi for a decade and live in those huge Lutyens bungalows.Why pamper the new Lutyens elite and persecute soldiers who have fought for our country and bureaucrats who gave their lives for India ? Don’t swallow the propaganda & the lies. Don’t let political dadagiri extend to attacking veterans and retired civil servants while politicians live off honest tax payers theprint.in/opinion/sharp-…

It has been almost five years since the Taliban stopped girls over 12 going to school. Millions of Afghan women are being erased from public life. Girls are growing up without the education they need and deserve. Mothers can't even take their children to the park. This cannot go on. You are not forgotten. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

“Without the chinar, #Kashmir would not feel like Kashmir” Residents, activists & environmental researchers tell @UnSeerat27736 of the growing conflict between infrastructure projects & Kashmir’s fragile ecological heritage The trees are losing article-14.com/post/as-highwa…

Shireen Ratnagar passed away last night. She was a phenomenal teacher & archaeologist.I was lucky to have been taught by her. Only she could walk into a class holding a stone & ask, what is this,& when someone muttered a stone, roar No, it’s a stone tool. Go well, Shireen.

By all means run a bulldozer over Delhi Gymkhana. But don’t give the bullshit of exclusivity or privilege or tax payer money. If thats the standard we are living by then shut down Constitution Club; demolish the CSOI where govt land was given at throw away price to babus; shut down DSOI; take back all newspaper properties on BSZ Marg; Take back all lands given to NGOs which are profit centres; demolish IIC and Habitat Centre; stop subsidised food in parliament. MPs get paid so why should their food be subsidised? if they cant afford it, step down from parliament and do something that pays you enough. Shut down the Air Force and Army Golf Clubs, Santushti Centre, Race Club, and the Delhi Flying Club where no one flies anything. The DGC is being targeted because someone has an axe to grind and didnt get membership. Now its being made an elite vs non-elite fight which it isn't. But since we all want to play Bolshevik commies or are inspired by CCP and Khmer Rouge to demolish everything nice, decent, genteel, lets do a comprehensive job of it. Make it all a animal shelter which would warm the cockles of Pol Pot's heart. But please don’t give the BS of security because that is total hogwash. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

This video is from M.P BJP leader can be seen using a 20+ car convoy to fight the fuel crisis in India. Peak Deshbhakti

I finished @weizman_eyal's Ungrounding last night and it has left me overwhelmed & speechless. I'll have a lot more to say about it but suffice it to say for now that, while some extraordinary books have been written about Gaza, this one for me is the most important. Here's why:

Are Hindutva and appropriate caste equations sufficient to buck a 10-year anti-incumbency in UP, says senior journalist Radhika Ramaseshan @Radrama in The Tribune @thetribunechd #TheTribuneOpinion tribuneindia.com/news/comment/y…

My piece on what UP polls could look like tribuneindia.com/news/comment/y…

मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ के निर्देश पर यूपी में अब सभी राष्ट्रीय राजमार्ग टोल प्लाजा पर देशभक्ति गीत और भजन बजाए जाएंगे. गाजियाबाद के जिलाधिकारी रविंदर मंदार ने जानकारी देते हुए कहा कि इस पहल का उद्देश्य यात्रियों में देशभक्ति और आध्यात्मिक भावना को बढ़ावा देना है. #TollPlaza #UttarPradesh #YogiAdityanath #ABPNews

'Sir, Give Us Water, People Will Die': Water Crisis In India's 'Cleanest City' Indore; Congress Councilor Falls On Cop's Feet During Protest etvbharat.com/en/bharat/sir-…

Inside TVK’s war room: The silent operators who scripted Vijay’s winning formula. A 40-member Gen Z team, led by chief strategist Kapil Sahu, spent a year mapping anti-incumbency seat by seat, recruiting disgruntled DMK and AIADMK insiders, and quietly building the coalition that brought Vijay to power. Their strategy in three words: “Less Vijay, more crazy.” newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-n…

FIFTY ONE deaths in Telangana due to heatwave yesterday! 51 people died in ONE SINGLE DAY! And it is not even the main news anywhere! This brings the total to 107 heatwave deaths in just three days. At least another four more days of heatwave conditions are expected. Highest number of deaths were reported from Warangal yesterday. 23 deaths were from this district alone. Temperatures are touching 42 to 46 degrees in Telangana. Imagine if 51 people died in a single day in a flight crash or a road accident or a stampede or a bridge collapse - we would have all been angry. With heatwave, we all tend to accuse the Sun and move on. Heatwave isn’t act of God. It is a direct result of mindless tree chopping our governments are doing in the name of development. Global warming & Climate change are real!!!

@anuarunima1 Arunima I agree. But it's not about marginalising the southern states. It's sheer laziness. Northerners won't exert mentally to understand these states each of which is distinctive. They're forced to reckon with TN for the 1st time because of Vijay!

@Radrama And frankly I’ve almost never seen a non Malayali journalist write about Kerala in the English language press. Neither they, nor the alternative Hindi YouTube channels have any understanding or interest in Kerala. Sometimes ‘The south’ is mentioned but what follows is….😃

However , when speaking of "Oppn" politics, are the non bjp parties only meant to draw lessons from WB? Why are TN Kerala n Puducherry not in the frame? Vandita Mishra writes: After West Bengal verdict, a new moment calls for a new Opposition politics indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

Just heard that a Boeing 737 of Air India Express lined up on the runway edge lights at Muscat. It started take off roll and then broke many runway edge lights and damaged its nose gear. After a very loud noise in cockpit they aborted take off but it was too late. Aircraft damaged . Runway light damaged. Passengers offload on runway. How is that news not in the mainstream media?