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Sep 4

A lot of people say “Nirmala Sitharaman hasn’t been a good Finance Minister.”

But this is unjust.

Since 2019, she has brought some of the most transformative reforms India has seen in decades.

Let’s look at what the critics conveniently ignore.

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She simplified GST slabs, reducing them mainly to 5%, 18%, and 40%.

Luxury and sin goods are taxed at the highest rate, while compliance has become easier for small businesses.

This is about making the economy transparent + business-friendly.

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India’s corporate tax rates were slashed to align with global standards.

That move told the world: India is open for business.
More investment, more jobs, more confidence in our economy.

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Sep 3

Hakla Khan is called the “King of Bollywood”.
Now his daughter Suhana Khan wants to be the “Queen of Farmers”

She recently bought 1.5 acres of agricultural land in Alibaug for ₹12.91 crore.

On paper, nothing seems wrong, until you realize this land was originally meant only for farming, and as per Maharashtra law, only a farmer can buy agricultural land.

So Suhana was shown as a farmer in the land deal documents.

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Now think about this carefully.

How many young people from rural Maharashtra, whose families have been farming for generations are denied land rights because of strict regulations?

Yet, here we have a Nepo Kid with no connection to farming, being magically registered as a farmer.

This is not about one plot in Alibaug. It is about a pattern. A system that bends for the rich while suffocating the real farmers.

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Being a “farmer” is not just an identity. In India, it is a legal category that comes with privileges:

1. Agricultural income is 100% tax-free.

2. Capital gains exemptions apply if you reinvest in agricultural land.

3. Property taxes are much lower compared to commercial or residential properties.

For the real farmer, this system is meant to provide relief and survival.
For the wealthy elite, it is a backdoor into tax havens and luxury estates.

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Sep 1

Lokah is being celebrated as a “pathbreaking Malayalam superhero film.”

But beneath the spectacle lies a narrative that systematically vilifies Hindu traditions while glorifying missionary imagery.

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The central figure, Kalliyankattu Neeli, comes from Kerala folklore where she is feared as a Yakshi.
In Lokah, she is reimagined as a savior of the “marginalized.”

Her turning point is that She kills a Hindu king who massacred her people for entering a temple.

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This storyline frames Hindu kings as cruel oppressors and temples as sites of exclusion and violence.
It normalizes the idea that rebellion against dharmic traditions is heroic.

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May 21

Kapil Sibal recently declared in court, “Once a Waqf, always a Waqf.” That one line says everything about the Emergency India is under—not declared by a state, but imposed silently by Islamists, enforced by mobs, and legitimized by ‘secular’ elites.

Decades ago, Sitaram Goel saw this coming. In his collection of articles 'Freedom of Expression', he warned us: Islam has imposed an Emergency on India.

From CAA to NRC, from Triple Talaq to Waqf, from Sar Tan Se Juda threats to blasphemy laws—every issue must pass an Islamic test, or else.

The Hindu voice is muzzled, critique is criminalized, and facts are labelled “hate speech.”

What Goel wrote decades ago stands truer today than ever before.

Here’s a long thread from that prescient essay—unedited, unfiltered, unflinching.

No newspaper or periodical worth its name in India will publish what I write in the lines that follow.

Not because the subject matter is seditious or sacrilegious or obscene, or even controversial, but simply because it defies the Emergency imposed on this country by Muslim theologians and politicians backed by ‘secularist’ intellectuals and politicians and riotous Muslim mobs and plain terrorists.

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The Indian intelligentsia, by and large, is very well aware of what Emergency means. It had a firsthand experience during 1975-77 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi extended to everyone the fullest “freedom” to extol her, but put in jail all those who asked inconvenient questions about her doings.

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May 20

On May 19th, one of the most controversial figures of Modern India, Nathuram Godse, was born.

Some rally that he was right. Others say he was fatally wrong.

But this is his final statement—unedited, unapologetic. A window into his mind and why he did what he did.

It is upto you to decide!

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On January 13, 1948, I learnt that Gandhiji had decided to go on fast unto death. The reason given was that he wanted an assurance of Hindu-Muslim Unity… But I and many others could easily see that the real motive… [was] to compel the Dominion Government to pay the sum of Rs 55 crores to Pakistan, the payment of which was emphatically refused by the Government….

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But this decision of the people’s Government was reversed to suit the tune of Gandhiji’s fast. It was evident to my mind that the force of public opinion was nothing but a trifle when compared with the leanings of Gandhiji favourable to Pakistan.

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May 19

26 people died in Pahalgam. Killed not in war—but in yet another jihadi ambush.

Their only fault was that they belonged to Sanatan Dharma. They belonged to Bharat

India responded with fire:
Operation Sindoor—a clean, precise military strike.
But let’s step back.
Because this cycle… isn't new.

And there was only one man who predicted this years ago. A man who was laughed at in his time—and is being proven right in ours.

Sitaram Goel.

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Goel was no firebrand.
He wasn’t trying to go viral in the 90s.
He just read deeply, thought clearly, and wrote with brutal honesty.

What he wrote disturbed people. Not because it was false.
But because it sliced through polite lies we were taught to believe.

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Let’s be honest. We grew up hearing things like:
“Islam and Hinduism coexisted peacefully.”
“India is secular because we respect all religions.”
“Partition solved the Hindu-Muslim problem.”

Goel called this a dangerous fantasy.
And showed us the bones beneath the fabric.

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