Arpita Chatterjee

IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on the recent surge in social media takedowns:

The world is being reordered by those who act and those who define. If India wishes to be counted among the latter, it must ensure that its silence does not speak louder than its convictions. We are living through a moment when the rules of the international system are being rewritten in real time. Assassinations of leaders, the killing of civilians, open assertions of force—these are no longer aberrations but instruments. In such a world, silence is not neutrality. It is read, interpreted, and often misread as consent. India has long claimed a distinctive space in global affairs—not as an appendage to power, but as a voice shaped by its own civilisational experience and its history of speaking for sovereignty, restraint, and balance. That voice mattered because it was consistent, even when inconvenient. Strategic autonomy cannot mean adjusting our language to the hierarchy of power. Restraint has its place. Calibration is necessary. But when fundamental questions arise—about sovereignty, about the limits of force, about the protection of civilians—India cannot afford to be silent. A moral compass is not an ornament of foreign policy. It is its direction. Without it, realism drifts into accommodation, and autonomy into ambiguity. This war has damaged India’s interests in almost every practical sense. It has raised costs, narrowed diplomatic room, stressed shipping, complicated Chabahar, and injected fresh instability into a region vital to India’s economy and external strategy. Even if New Delhi can cushion the blow, it cannot plausibly claim that the blow itself serves India. The deeper question is whether India is willing to say so with sufficient clarity.

Only if they weren’t running utterly corrupt governments in Maharashtra & Centre - the infrastructure wouldn’t be leaking & collapsing all around you. ₹37000 crores were spent on this Metro - yet, within 6 months, the corruption is leaking.

During Ram Navami celebration in Murshidabad, Hindutva mob vandalized, looted, and set fire to Muslim Owned shops. This is manufactured rioting to disrupt the peace and communal balance of Bengal. How many News Agencies and News Channels are showing this. How many News Anchors are discussing and condemning this?