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Political History of India

Freight Equalisation Policy: Another Nehru ‘gift’ that kept mineral-rich states like Bihar and Odisha backward while Southern states and Maharashtra prospered with industrialisation

Rukma Rathore - 27 June, 2025

Former Union Minister Hansraj Bhardwaj admitted that the FEP needed to be abolished because it had failed to meet its goals.

News Reports

Mohanlal starrer Empuraan receives backlash for grotesque misportrayal of 2002 Gujarat riots and pushing an anti-Hindu narrative

OpIndia Staff - 29 March, 2025

Mohanlal starrer Empuraan allegedly portrays the events after the Godhra riots in a manner that pushes an anti-Hindu narrative

Culture and History

The Portuguese onslaught Part 1: How Vasco da Gama’s ‘discovery’ of India brought years of bloodshed, murders and violence to our shores

Rukma Rathore - 30 January, 2025

King Manuel of Portuguese wanted to find a direct sea route to India to bypass Arab and Venetian merchants.

News Reports

Rani Chennamma of Kittur led a armed revolt against the British decades before 1857: Read about her valour and honour in face of abject...

Rukma Rathore - 23 October, 2024

The queen emerged victorious in the first battle against the Britishers, but she was captured in the subsequent fight.

News Reports

Zoho CEO rejects allegations of ‘ignoring south India’ in selecting AI Centres of Excellence, says committee with majority from south unanimously selected 3 institutions

OpIndia Staff - 17 October, 2024

The Zoho CEO stated that many people on the panel were from the south and the government did not advise us on who to choose.

News Reports

‘Columnist’ Andy Mukherjee goes on a blocking spree after Indians point out gaping holes in his Bloomberg op-ed claiming South India is ‘rejecting’ Modi

OpIndia Staff - 9 April, 2024

Andy Mukherjee recently came up with a comical opinion column wherein he claimed India's south has been rejecting Modi.

News Reports

South India got investments, North Indian states lagged behind because of Congress govt’s Freight Equalisation Policy: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

ANI - 2 February, 2024

"It is also necessary for the people of India today, especially in North India, to know why it is that North India has lagged behind South India in development," Chandrasekhar said while talking ANI.

Opinions

The Hindu and how it is creating the North-South Divide: Repeatedly lying about devolution of funds and cheating their readers with misinformation

S. Sudhir Kumar - 6 October, 2023

The Hindu published an article on 5th October 2023, with a very combative headline – “Retribution for the South, accolade for the North”. I think you got the gist just by looking at the headline

Opinions

Divisive, fallacious argument by KTR: Breaking down the 321-slide presentation debunking lies about South’s tax devolution and central govt’s infra spend

S. Sudhir Kumar - 21 June, 2023

One of the narratives around the South-North divide is that the South states contribute more money to the central government and are therefore much more superior than the Northern states.

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