Rudraksh Aneja

The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, introduced in the Lok Sabha on 25 March and now listed for passage in the Monsoon Session, has been met with the familiar chorus that greets every attempt to bring foreign money under scrutiny. Democracy in danger, civil society under siege, minorities targeted. Strip away the theatre and read the bare Act, and a plainer truth appears. FCRA does not ban a single rupee of foreign funding. It asks three questions any sovereign state is...

What the examination-integrity agitation of 2026 teaches about the sequence in which a government should respond. The standard post-mortem of any large street mobilisation reaches for one of two explanations. Either the police handled it badly, or the government failed to communicate. Both are usually true and neither is very useful, because they describe symptoms rather than the mechanism. A more instructive way to read the examination-integrity agitation that ran from the Jantar Mantar...

On March 30, 2026, Union Home Minister Amit Shah stood in Parliament and made a declaration that would have seemed fantastical just twelve years earlier, India is now officially, Naxal-free. The Red Corridor, that vast, forest-shrouded arc of insurgency stretching from Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh to the Nepal border near Pashupati, had been decimated. What had once been India's longest-running internal armed conflict, spanning six decades and ten states across nearly 200 districts, covering...