KM Rakesh

3 weeks ago | meer.com | KM Rakesh

All it took for US President Donald Trump to peeve India’s right-wing ecosystem that all along backed him was to jump the gun and announce a ceasefire, openly bragging about how he saved nuclear-armed India and Pakistan from the brink of a full-scale war. It is a fact that Washington, like the rest of the world, was concerned after India and Pakistan targeted each other with missiles, kamikaze drones, and artillery firing that killed several civilians.

1 month ago | meer.com | KM Rakesh

India and Pakistan are back in global focus as the two South Asian nuclear-armed neighbors following a deadly terror attack in the Indian union territory Kashmir, where Muslim terrorists shot and killed 26 men, most of them Hindu tourists out on a summer break. Four militants from The Resistance Front, a little-known offshoot of the proscribed terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, picked Hindu men from tourists who had come from various parts of India to the picturesque Kashmir Valley.

2 months ago | meer.com | KM Rakesh

India is in the midst of yet another language war with the southern states up in arms accusing the federal government of using covert means to impose Hindi. To the uninitiated, Hindi is not a pan-Indian language and such protests are not new. The official data shows that Hindi — as defined by the federal government that bunched a bouquet of North Indian languages, all bracketed under Hindi — is spoken by 42 per cent of the approximately 1.4 billion people.

Mar 6, 2025 | meer.com | KM Rakesh

The German national elections that sent shockwaves in Europe with the emergence of far-right Alternative for Democracy (AfD) as a mainstream party also saw how the party’s influence forced the centre-left and conservative parties to compromise on their long-held policies on welcoming refugees and other irregular immigrants.

Nov 30, 2024 | thefederal.com | KM Rakesh

Political parties across the Centre-Left spectrum in Germany had come down heavily on Bjoern Hoecke of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD; Alternative for Germany) when he vented his fury against a Holocaust memorial in the heart of Berlin nearly eight years ago.