The Manufactured Persona of a “Victim-Politician” Zohran Kwame Mamdani  is not merely a New York Assemblyman; he is a political personality carefully curated for American progressive spaces. Instead of focusing on crime, housing, affordability, or the daily concerns of his constituents, Mamdani has reinvented himself as the Western interpreter of Indian politics — the man who must lecture 1.4 billion Indians on morality, democracy, and pluralism. Again and again, he frames hi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi , speaking at the Sixth Ramnath Goenka Lecture, urged India to embark on a ten-year national mission to eliminate what he called the “Macaulay mindset” — a lingering colonial-era psychological framework that, he argued, continues to influence India’s education, culture and outlook. Drawing attention to Thomas Babington Macaulay’s 1835 Minute on Indian Education, Modiji  said that the British deliberately engineered an intellectual disconnect betwe

Suzanna Arundhati Roy  is hailed internationally as a literary icon and a fearless activist. Since winning the Booker Prize in 1997 for...