Nikhil J. Alva

Today, the US can’t care less for our strategic interests; Russia has seen how unreliable an ally we are & that Trump dictates our foreign policy; And China must smirk seeing how isolated we are on the world stage. Well done EAM Jaishankar & the babus dictating foreign policy.

The PM’s decision to fly to Israel to hug that thug, Netanyahu, while Iran was being bombed, was in poor taste and ill advised. It destroyed our credibility with nations across West Asia, firmly shutting the doors on India as a neutral mediator, opening them instead for Pakistan.

With Pakistan taking centre stage in the Iran war as an unlikely ‘broker of peace,’ India’s foreign policy, dictated by Jaishankar, undoubtedly the worst EAM in our history, has left us isolated, irrelevant & weakened.

ALL NINE COPS TO BE HANGED!!! In a landmark judgement, the honourable First Additional District and Sessions Judge of Madurai, G Muthukumaran pronounced death penalty for all nine policemen in the Jeyaraj and Beniks custodial torture and death case. Inspector S Sridhar, sub-inspectors P Ragu Ganesh & K Balakrishnan, head constables S Murugan and A Samidurai and constables M Muthuraja, S Veil Muthu, S Chelladurai & X Thomas Francis have all been found guilty of the double murder. On 19th June 2020, Jeyaraj went to his son’s mobile shop in at Sathankulam in Thoothukudi. Police arrested him for violating Covid rules. Following the father’s arrest, Beniks went to the police station and requested for his father’s release. Beniks apparently had an argument with the cops. They arrested him also and tortured him and his father through the night and later sent to judicial remand. Beniks died at Kovilapatti Government Hospital on 22nd June, 2020, and Jeyaraj passed away the next day. The investigation later revealed that the mobile shop wasn’t open beyond the permissible hours. Basically a false case was slapped. Later, a female constable, Revathi came forward to tell the truth of their torture. Not only were the son & the father beaten brutally throughout the night but were also made to clean up their blood off the police station floor and walls with their clothes. Beniks sustained 13 external injuries and Jeyaraj had 17 wounds that ultimately led to their deaths. They were bleeding from their rectums when they were sent to jail!!! Following a huge social media uproar and protests, there was pressure on the then Tamil Nadu government to conduct a fair investigation into their deaths. If you go through the whole case, you will realise that 59 year old Jeyraj and 31 year old Beniks were killed purely because the ego of the policemen was hurt. They were angry that Beniks questioned why his father was arrested and being beaten up. Family of the victims hope this will be a lesson to all policemen who think they can get away with any crime. But unfortunately in our country most police don’t play by the rules. It is either their ego or orders from above or corruption that drives them. Hoping for better policing and a system that stands for victims, especially the voiceless ones.

The Centre has finally condescended to release Sonam Wangchuk. Each day this patriot spent in jail was a travesty of justice and a gross abuse of state power. I’m glad better sense has prevailed and that he’s been freed. @Wangchuk66 indianexpress.com/article/india/…

@anandmahindra @Nagaland_India @anandmahindra this video is from Mizoram & not Nagaland. The Mizos & Nagas are not the same ethnically. Tlawmngaihna (Cultural Ethic): is a traditional Mizo code of conduct that emphasizes selflessness, patience & altruism, putting the interests of the community above self.

The quality of urban life is ultimately shaped by the collective participation of its community. No amount of physical infrastructure can substitute for thst… (Video courtesy @Nagaland_India )

Unbelievable. Boeing has been driving the pilot suicide theory to explain the crash of AI 182, which all along seemed bizarre. Turns out the fuel switches on the Dreamliner can actually turn themselves off. ndtv.com/india-news/air…

This editorial in The Hindu of January 1, 2026 analyses how and why the Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Review (SIR) of electoral rolls across 12 States and Union Territories has descended into farce — actually much worse than farce. A combination of high-handedness, ad hocery, incompetence, indecent haste, and motivated and unlawful manoeuvres threatens to turn (where it has not already turned) the SIR exercise into a means of mass disenfranchisement on an unprecedented scale. The ongoing West Bengal SIR is an egregious case of this incompetence and grave abuse of procedure and process by the ECI. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court of India has failed “properly [to] vet the new SIR procedure for constitutionality.” But “it is still not too late for the Court to take note of the infirmities and to decide firmly in favour of the electorate. The fate of the very idea of universal adult franchise hangs in the balance.” Descent into farce The Hindu, January 1, 2026 thehindu.com/opinion/editor…

According to Govt data 34.8% of Delhi’s venomous air pollution is attributed to ‘others’ - the biggest source. When you’re clueless about what’s causing the problem, how can you hope to solve it? #TheRightToBreathe #ToxicAir

Delhi is a hell hole at the moment. The air is unbelievably wicked. It’s a full blown crisis that has united all our major political parties & their leaders in a conspiracy of silence, while citizens breathe poison and die slow deaths. #TheRightToBreathe

Patriot @Wangchuk66 is fighting to protect the rights of the people of Ladakh & for statehood - pissing off Big Brother, who has venomously thrown the CBI at him & cancelled his university’s land license. The Ladakhis need our support. Stand with them. #SaveLadakh

The timing of the release of the report into the AI 117 Dreamliner crash shows how much influence BOEING has over the AAIB. 1.30 AM IST, Saturday, just after the US stock markets shut for the weekend - to protect BOEING’s share price from the adverse effects of the report.

NDTV is reporting 1 survivor in the Ahmedabad Air India crash. The passenger in seat 11 A. According to the flight manifest that is Ramesh Viswashkumar, a UK national. I hope and pray that this news is true 🙏 #AirIndiaPlaneCrash

@RanaAyyub And you reposting it is only giving it more traction and higher circulation.

We blame the right wing twitter handles for spewing anti Muslim hate. This is a video approved by the Prime Minister of India

Here’s another blonde haired man dreaming of making a comeback 😂 #Borisfiletrump

In the chaos of the US election there was this hysterical side-show from the India Today group! The glee in the journalist’s voice quickly gave way to panic, when he realised he’d been reading from a parody account of @narendramodi

I was honoured with a ‘Last Girl’ award by the Asia Society, in New York, yesterday - in recognition of my life long commitment to fighting gender violence & stopping child sex trafficking. The award was presented by Nobel laureate, Leymah Gbowee. asiasociety.org/new-york/event…

Why has this man from Ladakh become a threat to New Delhi? #SonamWangchuk #Ladakh #MahatmaGandhi