Lately our Benguluru development minister is not hogging much limelight. Footpaths are again occupied, garbage mounts reached the same heights as before, and potholes have become deeper.
Gold loans is a loan category almost entirely concentrated in southern India.
After a long verbal altercation, a physical spat broke between two ladies and the auto driver. Bystanders said it started due to the fare. HSR layout.
Smash patriarchy?
Only when it’s convenient. Only when the target is the right kind of patriarchy.
Recently Rahul Gandhi came on stage in Pune and tells young women: “You belong to nobody except yourself. Be loud. Be proud. Fight for your space. Smash the patriarchy!” He rails against the “Manusmriti mindset,” against cages, against control. Fine words. Applause. Camera-ready feminism.
Now let's look at Kerala, where his party leads the government.
A senior Muslim mullah, Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliyar, tells women they should remain confined to their homes. Public platforms with unrelated men will lead to “great destruction.” Women are like gold ornaments — best kept locked in a box so they don’t lose their value. Classic, unapologetic patriarchy, dressed up as religious instruction.
Journalist Aparna Kurup does exactly what Rahul claims to want: she challenges it. On air. Loudly. She questions the logic that keeps women indoors while treating them as objects to be protected (or controlled).
What follows? Threats. Online abuse. Death threats. She files a complaint.
And then the Congress-led government books *her*. What an irony!! HYPOCRISY PRO MAX!
FIR under sections for outraging religious feelings, promoting enmity, provocation to riot. The video is taken down. An apology is issued. The woman who spoke up is the one facing police action, while the mullah’s words sail on with far softer consequences.
This is the selective feminism of RaGa in 2026. “Smash patriarchy” is a slogan aimed at one community’s texts and traditions. When the same control over women’s bodies, mobility, and public presence comes from another community, suddenly it’s pin-drop silence. The woman who refuses to stay quiet becomes the problem.
If patriarchy is wrong when it cites Manusmriti, it is equally wrong when it cites the Quran or any other text. If women belong only to themselves, that truth does not stop at the boundary of vote-bank arithmetic.
Rahul’s speech sounded powerful until reality in Kerala showed the fine print: smash only the patriarchy that is politically safe to smash. The rest gets an FIR and a forced apology, may be even worse...
Hope women notice.
India's corporate balance sheet looks much better.
For the first time in India, cleaner-fuel vehicles overtook petrol cars in August, accounting for 42% of passenger vehicle sales, compared with 41% for petrol.
Error #1: Take a nominal GDP number from the old series and compare it with a nominal GDP number from the new series.Divide one by the other and proclaim 2.6% "growth."That is comparing apples with oranges.
Fact: When GDP series are revised, historical numbers are re-estimated using the same methodology to ensure an apples-to-apples comparison. Such an ECON 101 error!
Error #2: Use nominal GDP arithmetic to challenge a real GDP growth rate of 7.8%, while ignoring double deflation, a globally accepted methodology that India now adopts, and the actual constant-price estimates.
Error #3: Treat routine revisions, based on improved data and methodology, as "manipulation." Historical estimates are revised precisely because new data arrive and better information becomes available.
Such revisions happen routinely, including when the person making this claim was in Government.
Error #4: Claim consumption growth was negative by committing the same errors, when official data show real private consumption grew 7.1%.
The 2.6% number is not the growth rate under the old GDP series. It is not the growth rate under the new GDP series either. It is simply the percentage change obtained by dividing a number from one statistical system by a number from another statistical system.
Think of a company switching from Indian GAAP to US GAAP. Suppose last year's profit was reported as ₹100 under Indian GAAP. When the same underlying transactions are restated under US GAAP, the comparable number becomes ₹90.
That does not mean the company somehow became ₹10 less profitable last year. You cannot go back in time and change what happened. The same economic activity occurred. Only the accounting framework used to measure it has changed.
Now suppose this year's profit, measured under US GAAP, is ₹100.
What is the correct growth rate?
₹100 compared with ₹90: 11.1%.
But suppose someone compares this year's ₹100 under US GAAP with last year's ₹100 under Indian GAAP and declares growth to be zero.
What has he calculated?
Not growth under Indian GAAP. Not growth under US GAAP. Just a meaningless percentage obtained by comparing numbers produced under two different accounting systems.
And for an even simpler example: suppose last year your weight was recorded as 100 pounds and this year, after changing the measurement system, it is recorded as 45 kilograms. Dividing 45 by 100 does not tell you that you lost 55% of your weight.
The same principle applies here. You cannot calculate GDP growth by comparing apples and oranges: GDP estimates produced under two different statistical series.
India didn't just weather the worst oil crisis in a generation but emerged as a net winner, overtaking Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to become the top supplier of petrol, diesel and jet fuel to Kenya, while its fuel exports to Africa climbed to their highest level ever.
It was the only economy in Asia that fully recovered its oil imports after the shock, refilled its strategic reserves and resumed exporting, energy economist Dr. Anas Alhajji said at Elara Capital's Ashwamedh — Elara India Dialogue 2026. While other big Asian economies stayed on the back foot, India kept moving.
She is Ramabai Ranveer, a 47-year-old mother from Ambajogai in Maharashtra.
She works hard to support her family and her daughters’ education. After the death of her husband, the responsibility of raising and educating her two daughters fell on her shoulders.
When she heard about a local marathon called Amrit Daud, she decided to participate. The winner would receive Rs 3000. For many people, Rs 3000 may seem like a small amount.
But for a mother struggling to support her children’s dreams, that money meant something much bigger. It could help with education. It could help with fees. It could help her daughters move one step closer to their dreams.
She did not have proper running shoes, professional sportswear, or special training. But she had something much stronger than all of that....a dream for her daughters and the determination to make sure their education continued.
On the day of the race, she arrived wearing a simple saree and slippers. Around her were younger runners, many of them better prepared and wearing proper running shoes. But Ramabai was there with only one goal in her heart: to run for her daughters and their future.
As the race began, her slippers started causing problems and slowing her down. She could have stopped. She could have given up. But she didn’t. Instead, Ramabai removed her slippers, held them in her hands, and continued running barefoot.
Imagine that moment. A 47-year-old mother, running on the road without shoes, wearing a saree, competing against younger runners with proper running shoes. Every step must have been difficult, but the thought of her daughters and their education gave her the strength to keep moving forward.
And then, she did something truly incredible. Ramabai Ranveer crossed the finish line first and won the marathon. She won the Rs 3000 prize money that she had hoped to use to support her daughters’ education.
Respect to you, Ramabai Ji. There is no greater warrior than a mother.
Maharashtra govt should help fund her daughters’ education. When so many freebies and welfare schemes are being offered, why shouldn’t meaningful support be given to those who truly need it and are working hard to build a better future?
So, apparently, the problem is not an Islamic scholar saying that women should remain confined to their homes.
The real problem is why is the media reporting it now?
Exactly. It’s all about timing. When patriarchy is being "smashed" by targeting one particular religion to suit a certain agenda, why bother looking at similar statements made by religious leaders from other faiths?
Same as title.
MUSLIM MAN : "Land mafias had illegally occupied my son's land"
"My child went to Yogi Ji. He was offered breakfast, tea, and water.
"I swear to God, within 48 hours, the bulldozer was deployed"
"I will always praise Yogi Ji"
But why is this unavailable most of the time.
ORRCA has a point. The government should first finish the ORR metro and then take up white topping.
BMRCL informed ORRCA that ORR metro will be operational by Jun 2027. I am 100% sure it won't be operational even by Jun 2028.
An Indian engineer in Bengaluru got tired of potholes destroying his car.
So he built an app with Codex that detects them, finds who is responsible, and files a complaint.
Here is how it works. He installed a dashcam with GPS and an accelerometer. The app records everything while he drives.
A vision model classifies every pothole by size. Small, medium, large.
But here is the clever part. Most Indian roads are under warranty.
The contractor who built them is legally responsible for fixing potholes for free.
His app searches through 2,900 government contracts, finds the exact tender number, identifies the officer responsible, attaches the photo and geolocation, and generates a ready-to-file complaint.
One drive to work. 12 potholes detected. 12 complaints ready.
A serious safety hazard exists on Holiday Village Road, Talaghattapura Ward, where an old drainage/manhole pit has been left without a proper cover.
Recently, a cyclist lost balance on the road and fell into the open drainage, highlighting the serious risk this poses to cyclists, pedestrians, and two-wheeler riders.
Hope it helps in getting rid of those omnipresent gutkha stains. But why just 1 year? There should be a permanent ban.