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Business Standard
19-07-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Best of BS Opinion: Power plays, star turns, and fading languages
There's something magical about the air after a downpour. The way the city exhales, windows open, dust settles, and colours emerge brighter. It's a small pause, a crisp clarity that cuts through the blur of everyday noise. Much like today's columns. Each of them, different as they are, arrives like sunlight reflecting off of puddles on the road, revealing what was murky just moments ago. Whether it's the stormy shifts in India's political alliances or the clouded future of venture capital, they invite us to look again at what's settling, what's washing away, and what's beginning anew. Let's dive in. Start with Parmy Olson's sharp look at the evolving VC landscape, where tech giants are now acquiring AI startups not to scale them, but to quietly absorb their talent — a practice known as 'acquihiring'. While this helps companies skirt antitrust radar, it's leaving investors in the lurch and threatening the very business model that built Silicon Valley. The rain of regulation may have driven VCs to chase fewer billion-dollar exits, but in its aftermath, a more sustainable startup culture could just be taking root. Back home in Aditi Phadnis' analysis, clouds loom over the TDP-BJP alliance. The TDP's vocal disapproval of the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision hints at deeper ideological rifts, especially as the party attempts to woo its minority voter base. Yet, both sides tread carefully, bound together by mutual need. The monsoon session of Parliament could reveal whether these are just summer winds or signs of a larger storm brewing. In London, however, the skies were all flashbulbs and white linen. Sandeep Goyal writes about the Wimbledon 2025, where India's cricket royalty rubbed shoulders with global icons in a dazzling collision of sport, fashion, and fandom. But was it an organic presence or a curated spectacle? Either way, India's stars now shine far beyond the boundary ropes, both on and off the court. Shekhar Gupta decodes the gusts of Trumplomacy. Donald Trump's loud, erratic, ego-driven diplomacy unsettles many, India included. Yet, his direct outreach to Pakistan's military confirms what India has long argued, that Rawalpindi, not Islamabad, holds power. Trump's chaos, he argues, is more style than substance and with 2026 in sight, the real forecast is to wait out the storm. And Kumar Abishek writes about a more silent storm: the death of languages. Over 250 Indian tongues lost, hundreds more on the brink. As families choose Hindi or English for upward mobility, entire ways of seeing the world are disappearing. But here too, the downpour brings reflection and maybe a chance to preserve what's left before it vanishes completely. Stay tuned!
The Print
02-07-2025
- Politics
- The Print
Party loyalist with RSS background, PVN Madhav is Andhra's new BJP chief, like his father 40 yrs ago
The BJP, in alliance with the TDP and the Jana Sena Party (JSP), is a partner in the Chandrababu Naidu-led state government. Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has picked P.V.N. Madhav, a party loyalist with roots in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), as the next Andhra Pradesh unit chief to expand its footprint in the southern state where it has been struggling to gain ground on its own. After a unanimous election, Madhav took charge in a ceremony at Vijayawada on Tuesday. Like Telangana, though several popular leaders were in the fray for the top post, the BJP high command opted for a staunch party loyalist in Andhra Pradesh. Like Ramchander Rao, the new Telangana BJP chief, Madhav also served as an MLC and a BJP leader in the legislative council. Both were elected from the Graduates' constituencies in 2015 and 2017, respectively, in their respective states. Both were associated with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the students' wing of the RSS, cutting their teeth in politics in their student days. While Rao is a Brahmin, Madhav is from an OBC community. Madhav's family has been associated with the Sangh for two generations. His father, P.V. Chalapathi Rao, was the president of the BJP in united Andhra Pradesh in the early 1980s. Madhav, 51, holds an MBA from Andhra University. Inheriting his father's legacy, Madhav served in various posts in the BJP. While Purandeswari, former chief minister Kiran Reddy and MLA Sujana Chowdary, among others, contended for the Andhra Pradesh BJP president post, sources said the high command honoured the Madhav family's active association and contributions to the RSS and BJP growth in the state by elevating him. 'I was born during the Emergency, and now, when that chapter completes 50 years, I have become the AP BJP chief. I am happy to assume the post in a year when the RSS is completing 100 years,' Madhav told party workers at his induction event in Vijayawada. Madhav said that under his predecessor, Purandeswari, the party achieved eight MLAs and three MP seats and it now aimed to double the numbers with the support of senior leaders. Later, after visiting the famous Kanaka Durga temple at Indrakeeladri hill on Krishna banks, Madhav said that 'he will resolve the minor differences within the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) in AP'. 'I will see that BJP gets more prominence in the alliance, by taking certain aspects to the notice of CM Naidu,' the new chief said, adding that the BJP will strive to bring more funds from the Centre to the state. In March 2023, a year before the TDP-BJP patch-up, Madhav lost the North Andhra graduate MLC seat to TDP's Vepada Chiranjeevi Rao. On Tuesday, both TDP chief Naidu and JSP supremo Pawan Kalyan congratulated Madhav on his appointment as the BJP state president. 'Madhav, in active politics since his student years, is a leader with nationalist spirit. Now as AP BJP President, I hope he carries forward the NDA's spirit,' Kalyan said in a party release. (Edited by Sugita Katyal) Also Read: An ex-MLC & Brahmin leader with ABVP roots, Ramchander Rao is new chief of faction-ridden Telangana BJP
