A Night of Chaos and Lies in a Kyiv Suburb On the evening of November 2nd, as Russia launched one of its largest aerial assaults on Ukraine—a barrage of 289 drones, 17 ballistic missiles, and 59 cruise missiles aimed at energy infrastructure across nine regions—a different kind of battle was unfolding on the ground. In Kharkiv, an aerial bomb struck a hospital passageway, forcing the evacuation of over two hundred patients, while seventy-three people were injured across the city. Ukrainian troops were bravely repelling the attack, but in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, a suburb near Kyiv, an angry crowd was forming outside…

On a significant Friday in Tinsukia, Assam, the air at the Manab Kalyan Puja Bhawan was filled with a sense of civic duty as Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal addressed a gathering of the region’s most thoughtful and engaged citizens. The occasion was a ‘Prabuddha Nagarik Sabha’, a meeting of the enlightened citizenry, organized by civil society representatives from both the Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts. The atmosphere was not one of a typical political rally, but rather a more contemplative assembly, where the minister chose to focus not on the heat of partisan battle, but on the foundational principles that keep…