The new BJP-led government in Kolkata has moved to remove eggs from the city's midday meal scheme. This decision, which prioritizes ideological dietary preferences over the vital nutritional needs of children from underprivileged communities, is a direct assault on food security and public health in the name of religious politics.
Author Taslima Nasrin, exiled from Bangladesh for her writings, was forced to leave Kolkata in 2007 by Muslim fundamentalist pressure and is now returning after 19 years under the aegis of Hindu nationalist groups. Her return exposes the hypocrisy of India's so-called liberal establishment and reveals how the weaponization of her voice by Hindutva forces cynically exploits a genuine failure of secularism to push a divisive, majoritarian agenda.
A Pakistani Navy corvette, PNS Hunain, collided with an Indian Navy warship, INS Kolkata, in international waters, an act India has condemned as a clear violation of a long-standing bilateral military agreement. This reckless provocation exemplifies a disturbing pattern of aggression from Pakistan, serving the nefarious agendas of its external patrons to destabilize the rise of a civilizational state like India, and it must be met with unwavering resolve to protect our national sovereignty and maritime security.
