Report busts propaganda on India’s treatment of minorities

NEW DELHI: Unlike in India, where the...

Debunking Beauty Misconceptions and Embracing Reality

Beauty, an age-old concept that humanity has...

Is corruption really an issue in Indian elections?

The brutal and uncomfortable fact based on...

Ravi Shanker Kapoor

Banality of calamity

Accidents keep happening, followed with media outrage and public outcry, but nothing meaningful happens to check them.   The Amritsar train mishap during the Dussehra celebrations...

Banality of calamity

Accidents keep happening, followed with media outrage and public outcry, but nothing meaningful happens to check them.   The Amritsar train mishap during the Dussehra celebrations...

MeToo: Good but fraught

On the face of it, the MeToo movement in India can be dismissed as a dangerous trend, as trial by the media today and...

MeToo: Good but fraught

On the face of it, the MeToo movement in India can be dismissed as a dangerous trend, as trial by the media today and...

MeToo: Good but fraught

On the face of it, the MeToo movement in India can be dismissed as a dangerous trend, as trial by the media today and...

As we await the inferno

Northern India, including Delhi, is facing the prospect of becoming one of the most polluted places on earth.   Northern India—including Delhi, the national capital of...

As we await the inferno

Northern India, including Delhi, is facing the prospect of becoming one of the most polluted places on earth.   Northern India—including Delhi, the national capital of...

As we await the inferno

Northern India, including Delhi, is facing the prospect of becoming one of the most polluted places on earth.   Northern India—including Delhi, the national capital of...

Pakistan, a country that is in love with lies

The Pakistani claim that their country is a victim of terror is akin to the lamentation of the drug lord whose own children have...

Pakistan, a country that is in love with lies

The Pakistani claim that their country is a victim of terror is akin to the lamentation of the drug lord whose own children have...

Pakistan, a country that is in love with lies

The Pakistani claim that their country is a victim of terror is akin to the lamentation of the drug lord whose own children have...

Is Ayushman Bharat the right medicine?

Against the backdrop of inadequate state capacity and a dissolute political class, redeeming the health sector is difficult.   The Bharatiya Janata Party is delighted over...

Is Ayushman Bharat the right medicine?

Against the backdrop of inadequate state capacity and a dissolute political class, redeeming the health sector is difficult.   The Bharatiya Janata Party is delighted over...

Is Ayushman Bharat the right medicine?

Against the backdrop of inadequate state capacity and a dissolute political class, redeeming the health sector is difficult.   The Bharatiya Janata Party is delighted over...

Banking on old nostrums

At the heart of banking woes are structural problems and ideological cobwebs.   Einstein is said to have described absence of sanity as doing the same...

Banking on old nostrums

At the heart of banking woes are structural problems and ideological cobwebs.   Einstein is said to have described absence of sanity as doing the same...

Banking on old nostrums

At the heart of banking woes are structural problems and ideological cobwebs.   Einstein is said to have described absence of sanity as doing the same...

When believing is seeing

The protests of intellectuals appear as the fulminations of has-beens rather than the roars of revolutionaries.   Witnessing any gathering of intellectuals, whether it is a...

When believing is seeing

The protests of intellectuals appear as the fulminations of has-beens rather than the roars of revolutionaries.   Witnessing any gathering of intellectuals, whether it is a...

When believing is seeing

The protests of intellectuals appear as the fulminations of has-beens rather than the roars of revolutionaries.   Witnessing any gathering of intellectuals, whether it is a...

Dissent as smoke and mirrors

If anybody goes around with Naxals who are violent rogues, that person becomes a suspect. Dissent is legitimate but not when it becomes accessory...

Dissent as smoke and mirrors

If anybody goes around with Naxals who are violent rogues, that person becomes a suspect. Dissent is legitimate but not when it becomes accessory...

Dissent as smoke and mirrors

If anybody goes around with Naxals who are violent rogues, that person becomes a suspect. Dissent is legitimate but not when it becomes accessory...

Blaming the messenger: Lynching of reason

Social media platforms have indeed exacerbated the scope of evil deeds, but they have not occasioned evil.   If an alien were to land in India,...

Blaming the messenger: Lynching of reason

Social media platforms have indeed exacerbated the scope of evil deeds, but they have not occasioned evil.   If an alien were to land in India,...

Blaming the messenger: Lynching of reason

Social media platforms have indeed exacerbated the scope of evil deeds, but they have not occasioned evil.   If an alien were to land in India,...

Imperial loot of India is a myth

In our schools and colleges, we are told how British rule was an unmitigated disaster, how our imperial rulers looted us. It is time...

Imperial loot of India is a myth

In our schools and colleges, we are told how British rule was an unmitigated disaster, how our imperial rulers looted us. It is time...

Imperial loot of India is a myth

In our schools and colleges, we are told how British rule was an unmitigated disaster, how our imperial rulers looted us. It is time...

When faith acts as a stimulant

As Kanwarias throng the cities and towns of northern India, people at large patiently suffer the inconvenience of blocked or choked roads, frustrated commuters,...

When faith acts as a stimulant

As Kanwarias throng the cities and towns of northern India, people at large patiently suffer the inconvenience of blocked or choked roads, frustrated commuters,...

When faith acts as a stimulant

As Kanwarias throng the cities and towns of northern India, people at large patiently suffer the inconvenience of blocked or choked roads, frustrated commuters,...

When ‘Moral Policeman’ Nitish ignored horrible immorality

It was the welfarist apparatus, funded by taxpayer money, that was used to run a brothel. It took a visit by a Mumbai-based body...

When ‘Moral Policeman’ Nitish ignored horrible immorality

It was the welfarist apparatus, funded by taxpayer money, that was used to run a brothel. It took a visit by a Mumbai-based body...

When ‘Moral Policeman’ Nitish ignored horrible immorality

It was the welfarist apparatus, funded by taxpayer money, that was used to run a brothel. It took a visit by a Mumbai-based body...

Reasoned debate, RIP, abuse (and abuser), welcome

Rarely, if ever, was logic so distant from ethics in political discourse in India. From ad hominem and tu quoque to theatre, it’s been...

Reasoned debate, RIP, abuse (and abuser), welcome

Rarely, if ever, was logic so distant from ethics in political discourse in India. From ad hominem and tu quoque to theatre, it’s been...

Reasoned debate, RIP, abuse (and abuser), welcome

Rarely, if ever, was logic so distant from ethics in political discourse in India. From ad hominem and tu quoque to theatre, it’s been...

‘Bad’ better than ‘good’ in cinema, literature

Given our natural predilection for the deviant and the unusual, a movie on Sanjay Dutt was anyway due.   T^he Ranbir Kapoor-starrer Sanju has disturbed the...

‘Bad’ better than ‘good’ in cinema, literature

Given our natural predilection for the deviant and the unusual, a movie on Sanjay Dutt was anyway due.   T^he Ranbir Kapoor-starrer Sanju has disturbed the...

‘Bad’ better than ‘good’ in cinema, literature

Given our natural predilection for the deviant and the unusual, a movie on Sanjay Dutt was anyway due.   T^he Ranbir Kapoor-starrer Sanju has disturbed the...

Net neutrality: A socialist idea whose time has come

By accepting net neutrality, the government has proved that it is committed to socialism.   You can trust India to remain faithfully wedded to the big-state...

Net neutrality: A socialist idea whose time has come

By accepting net neutrality, the government has proved that it is committed to socialism.   You can trust India to remain faithfully wedded to the big-state...

Net neutrality: A socialist idea whose time has come

By accepting net neutrality, the government has proved that it is committed to socialism.   You can trust India to remain faithfully wedded to the big-state...

MSP hike is both bad politics and economics

The decision may provide some succour to agriculturists, but the claim that it would end farm distress is a gross exaggeration.   The Narendra Modi government...

MSP hike is both bad politics and economics

The decision may provide some succour to agriculturists, but the claim that it would end farm distress is a gross exaggeration.   The Narendra Modi government...

MSP hike is both bad politics and economics

The decision may provide some succour to agriculturists, but the claim that it would end farm distress is a gross exaggeration.   The Narendra Modi government...

Another awful report targets India

The Thomson Reuters Foundation survey, which says that India is the world’s most dangerous country for women, is an affront to common sense and...

Another awful report targets India

The Thomson Reuters Foundation survey, which says that India is the world’s most dangerous country for women, is an affront to common sense and...

Another awful report targets India

The Thomson Reuters Foundation survey, which says that India is the world’s most dangerous country for women, is an affront to common sense and...

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