[caption id="attachment_17719" align="alignleft" width="350"] Author Austin Kochar[/caption] The immigration enforcement debate in the United States has long been organized around a single, visible institution: detention. Whether the question is how many beds to fund, which…
[caption id="attachment_17719" align="alignleft" width="350"] Author Austin Kochar[/caption] The population at ICE’s Dilley family detention center in south Texas has surged from fewer than 500 people in October to 1,332 as of late January, according to…
Elon Musk has a talent for turning product launches into cultural events, but his latest move around X’s new messaging system—Chat, often referred to as X Chat—has a sharper edge. In essence, he is signalling…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has asserted that Naxalism in India has reached the verge of extinction. From the narrow standpoint of armed Maoist violence in parts of central India, this claim may appear defensible.…
The same logic applies to red sorghum for animal feed, which is essentially jowar in Indian terms. Here the political language risks running ahead of agronomic reality. Jowar is not a major crop in Punjab…
At the RSS centenary lecture series in Mumbai, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat made a set of remarks on Sikhs that merit careful and sober attention—particularly in Punjab, where questions of identity are neither…
On Saturday evening, 7 February, a post on X by Dr Gitanjali J. Angmo—written shortly after she met Sonam Wangchuk in custody—cut through the day’s noise because it was not slogan but detail. She relayed…
[caption id="attachment_19105" align="alignright" width="475"] Gurpartap Singh Mann is a farmer and former Member of the Punjab Public Service Commission[/caption] There is intense anxiety today in India’s agricultural sector. The recent India–United States trade deal has…
[caption id="attachment_19101" align="alignleft" width="500"] President Donald Trump speaks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a meeting in the Oval Office in February 2025. (The Washington Post)[/caption] As of 3 February 2026, the public knows…
This article reads Alphabet’s latest earnings through a political-economy lens, viewing artificial intelligence not merely as a technological breakthrough but as an infrastructure-heavy sector where capital, scale and control increasingly shape outcomes. The aim is…
