Mainstream Weekly

CJI could initiate a probe into fake degree holders occupying high offices | Faraz Ahmad

Faraz Ahmad — 2026-05-22T04:32:00Z

Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant stated recently in an open court, "There are youngsters like cockroaches. They don't get any employment. Some of them become media, some become social media, some become RTI activists, some of them become other activists."
When there was an outrage in the world outside, Justice Surya Kant clarified that his courtroom remarks comparing certain individuals to "cockroaches" and "parasites" were strictly aimed at individuals using fake degrees to enter (…)

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Modi squashes INDIA bloc; Rahul acquiesces | Faraz Ahmad

Faraz Ahmad — 2026-05-12T16:40:49Z

What's happening in Bengal, the way the Election Commission has not merely facilitated the loot of the Bengal polling but became an unabashed participant in this mayhem and dacoity throughout the state, doesn't surprise me one bit frankly, as I wrote in my previous piece that even if the Trinamul Congress TMC) were to scrape through by sheer grit, this is no Election when the bulk of voters prima facie suspects in the eyes of the BJP, have been literally weeded out and disenfranchised.
But (…)

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Do these SIR hampered elections denote Democracy | Faraz Ahmad

Faraz Ahmad — 2026-05-01T03:20:00Z

Whatever be the results of the West Bengal Assembly elections, where the last round of polling completed on Wednesday, 29 April, under the menacing eyes of an

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Should Open Court trials also follow the In Camera restrictions? | Faraz Ahmad

Faraz Ahmad — 2026-04-22T08:54:00Z

It is a curious situation that a lawyer named Vaibhav Singh has appealed to the Delhi High Court to put a ban on publicising court proceedings in Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma court where she is trying a case against former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, former Delhi Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and 21 others, including some prominent AAP leaders like Sanjay Singh, who were discharged by the trial court, finding no credible evidence presented by the investigating officer of the (…)

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Will there be a successful deal between US and Iran to end this war? | Faraz Ahmad

Faraz Ahmad — 2026-04-10T00:37:00Z

There can be no deal to end the Iran war, started by the Zionist Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his puppet the President of the United States of America (USA) Donald Trump, hugely deficient in the ordinary intelligence quotient, much as Trump seems desperate to end it, because his puppeteer Bibi is in no mood to relent, notwithstanding the devastation of Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities, the Tel Aviv International Airport, the Mossad headquarters and civilian casualties. (…)

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A Hamletian situation for Modi | Faraz Ahmad

Faraz Ahmad — 2026-03-19T03:36:00Z

Why is Prime Minister Narendra Modi reluctant to raise his little finger at the imperial bully, the President of the United States of America (USA), Donald Trump and the expansionist Zionist Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?
It is now full three weeks since US and Israel launched a joint unprovoked attack on Iran on February 28, killing Iran

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What's common between Trump, Modi and Netanyahu | Faraz Ahmad

Faraz Ahmad — 2026-03-07T23:21:04Z

If there is one thing common between US President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanyahu and our very dear Prime Minister Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi it is megalomania.
The Oxford English dictionary describes a megalomaniac as a person with an inflated sense of self-importance, power, and grandiosity, often believing himself to be superior, with extraordinary abilities, and an obsessive need for control, stemming from psychological condition like narcissistic (…)

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Modi has an excess of governance skills to make India a Hindu Rashtra | Faraz Ahmad

Faraz Ahmad — 2026-02-15T09:31:00Z

February 21, 2026
The other day I came across a video of Kapil Sibal, noted legal counsel to most dissenters against this Government, pronouncing the BJP government at the Centre and in so many states, as lacking the aptitude to govern and administer.
I beg to disagree with Sibal. Be it Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his second in command Amit Shah or the numerous chief ministers in the BJP ruled states, led by Uttar Pradesh (UP) chief minister Aja Bisht, all have a clear vision and (…)

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Justice Delayed is denied, but only for the chosen ones | Faraz Ahmad

Faraz Ahmad — 2026-02-07T05:11:51Z

The issue of Special Intensive Review (SIR) of the electoral rolls, imposed by the Election Commission (EC) on the people of India, beginning with Bihar, started in June last year, just few months before the state Assembly elections were scheduled and eventually held.
The EC, led by a very questionable CEC Gyanesh Kumar set about disenfranchising crores of voters in Bihar, mostly from the marginalised sections and minorities, who are easily identifiable as Opposition voters in the ruling (…)

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Food racism is condemnable in US or India | Faraz Ahmad

Faraz Ahmad — 2026-01-24T06:31:29Z

Two bright young scientists, Aditya Prakash and Urmi Bhattacharya from Colorado Boulder's University have abandoned their promising careers in the United States of America (USA) for experiencing intolerable "food racism" in the Anthropology Department of the University for heating Aditya's lunch tiffin containing 'Palak Paneer' in the department's microwave, a common practice among all staff members, because one staff member found the smell of Palak Paneer too 'pungent',
Urmi Bhattacharya, (…)

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