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Arun Srivastava — 2026-05-22T04:31:00Z

False allegations and fabricated narratives capture public imagination due to their emotional charge, often spreading faster than truth, particularly through social media and sensationalized reporting. Often stemming from motives like revenge, intention to malign, to set personal score or attention-seeking, these accusations cause immense, sometimes irreparable, reputational and psychological damage to the wrongly accused.
Saffron ecosystem in league with the nouveau riche and upper middle (…)

- 2026

Leadership quality of Rahul Gandhi has been put on test by his party MLAs cross-voting defying his ideological thrust | Arun Srivastava

Arun Srivastava — 2026-03-19T03:30:37Z

The voting pattern in the Rajya Sabha (RS) elections in Bihar and Odisha while has exposed the deepening crisis of unity within INDIA bloc, it has also put a big question mark on the tenability and pertinence of the politico ideological contour, a consistent, guiding set of political principles, beliefs, and strategies adopted to achieve a specific vision of society, being pursued by Rahul Gandhi as an alternative to the age old ideology of Congress. Politico-ideological line acts as a (…)

- 2026

Notwithstanding Supreme Court intervention every thing is not fair with SIR and its implementation in Bengal | Arun Srivastava

Arun Srivastava — 2026-03-01T15:07:00Z

The Supreme Court has not outright mocked the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise undertaken by the Chief Election Commissioner at the directive of Narendra Modi, but its two commands; first, criticising the implementation of the SIR in certain states, particularly regarding the use of "logical discrepancy" lists and software tools, and secondly, its directive to the CJ of Calcutta High Court to deploy serving as well as retired judicial officers to oversee adjudication of claims and (…)

- 2026

The BJP & the Boy with the Fist in the Dyke | Arun Srivastava

Arun Srivastava — 2025-12-21T05:47:02Z

PART II (Part I appeared as Why the RSS-BJP Juggernaut Needs a Political Seawall in the Dec 6, 2025 issue of Mainstream)
Hans ran and ran, past the fields of tulips and past the windmills. His small wooden shoes clicked and clacked against the brick road and kept his feet warm and dry from the sloshy mud and puddles. Hans was still running when he passed one of the many dykes. Something did not look right. Hans crept closer to the dyke to see. There, in the middle of the high stone (…)

- 2025

Why the RSS-BJP Juggernaut Needs a Political Seawall - Part 1 | Arun Srivastava

Arun Srivastava — 2025-12-06T03:29:35Z

After the Congress no-show in the November 2025 Bihar assembly election, Rahul Gandhi has become the punching pad for his friends and foes alike.
Everyone, irrespective of their political standing, is blaming him for the disastrous performance of not only the Congress, but INDIA bloc. The common refrain is: he did not handle the assembly election as it ought to have been. However, no one is pointing a finger at themselves or is ready to actually underline what should have been the correct (…)

- 2025

Lalu more concerned of his personal gains than fighting the fascist and rightist saffron ecosystem | Arun Srivastava

Arun Srivastava — 2025-10-25T05:00:07Z

Like his father Lalu Yadav, his younger son, the leader of opposition Tejashwi Yadav took to aggressive posture and announced headline-grabbing promises for the voters even before Bihar INDIA bloc comes out with its common minimum programme, purely with the intent of projecting himself as the chief minister face of Mahagathbandhan and the INDIA bloc.
Tejashvi would be next chief minister was never a contentious issue. Congress not declaring him as future chief minister was the part of its (…)

- 2025

Saffron ecosystem exposes its design to destabilise Mamata and remove her from power | Arun Srivastava

Arun Srivastava — 2024-03-09T04:43:29Z

by Arun Srivastava
Majority of the intelligentsia and illuminati, the conscience keepers, have been responsible for degeneration of secularism. ethical values and laying the red carpet for the majestic entry of the fascist and rightist BJP in the Indian polity. These people have been simply enjoying their adoration sitting in their ivory homes. They never bothered to caution or warn the political forces claiming to be secularists from digressing or taking the invasion of the rightist (…)

- 2024

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Narendra Modi twisting Hinduism to turn India into a Hindu Rashtra | Arun Srivastava

Arun Srivastava — 2024-01-27T00:31:11Z

Politics has been ubiquitous in India. Indians have a love and hate relation with it. From a teenager to a centenarian every one prefers to analyse and put forward his own perception on the political discourse. They claim to hate the politics of hate and deceit. But unfortunately the more the contour of politics is debated and discussed in public domain it is getting more and more murkier. Probably a common Indian must not have witnessed the murkiest face of politics in past as is seen (…)

- 2024

America using Quad and G7 to achieve its goal to keep China away from Russia | Arun Srivastava

Arun Srivastava — 2023-05-27T22:51:00Z

by Arun Srivastava
Probably this was for the first time that Narendra Modi's self-eulogy did not find significant takers. On his return from Australia, taking a swipe at his opposition detractors, Modi reminisced about his pleasant triumph, how the incumbent PM as well as the former PM and the rest of the opposition leaders of Australia hailed him but the opposition leaders in India were opposing his move to inaugurate the newly constructed parliament house.
In his own perception, he may (…)

- 2023

Atiq's Live TV assassination in UP Gets Big, Displacing Satyapal Malik's Pulwama Revelations to the Background - Who Gained? Will We Know the Truth? | Arun Srivastava

Arun Srivastava — 2023-04-22T02:11:14Z

by Arun Srivastava
Notwithstanding the week-old assurance from India's home minister Amit Shah to the delegation of Muslim leaders led by Mahmood Madani, president, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind that prompt action would be taken against the perpetrators of violence on the Muslims, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, was quite ebullient at the assassination of two famous gangsters from UP, Atiq, and Ashraf and even went up to claiming that no mafia can spread terror in Uttar Pradesh and (…)

- 2023