Abhinav Shukla

Saudi Arabia is under attack by the Houthis, a group in Yemen backed by Iran. Just weeks ago, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed a pact promising to defend each other. Now that Saudi Arabia is actually being attacked, we can see whether that promise means anything. It also matters to us, because this fight is around the oil routes that India depends on. The Pact On 7 August 2026, in the holiest city of Islam, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed a Joint Defence Agr

Before we start, I would like your attention towards paragraph 35 of Ashok Kumar Gupta v. State of U.P., (1997) 5 SCC 201, where three judges of the Supreme Court of India reached for a propagandist's pamphlet, titled, without irony, Merit, My Foot (“A Reply to Anti Reservation Racists”) and allowed it to speak at considerable length while considering what “efficiency of administration” under Article 335 actually means, the Court reproduced V.T. Rajshekar's assertions that:

A sovereign and republic nation, these are the characteristics attributed to our nation, Bharat, which is entitled to know what enters it. The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill of 2026, addresses the same, as of this writing, has been referred to a Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament, which will submit a report due by the first week of the Winter Session of 2026. Before getting into the chronology, it's crucial being plain about what the law actually c