RIGHT PERSPECTIVE
Price controls: Remedy worse than malady
What former US president John F. Kennedy said about victory and defeat can be paraphrased in the Indian context as: statism has a thousand fathers, but liberty is an orphan. Most politicians and intel... Read More
Dalit tourism: When defeat finds a parent
Bharatiya Janata Party Parliamentarian Udit Raj is right in slamming his own party leaders’ stunt of eating at Dalit homes. This practice “neither empowers the Dalit families nor benefits the poli... Read More
Getting it Right: On his 200th birth anniversary, Karl Marx continues to haunt us
Karl Marx was one of the greatest thinkers ever born; however, the adjective ‘greatest’ here doesn’t connote the beneficent aspects of his theories; instead it refers to the impact h... Read More
Left-liberal warning: If you are not with us…
Can a person disagree with the Left-liberal establishment and still be regarded as good, honourable, and decent? The answer is a big ‘no’ – that is, from the professional revolutiona... Read More
Jaitley’s goal in life (a poem)
If you speak, I’ll tax speech If you don’t, I’ll tax silence If you score well, I’ll tax high score If you fare bad, I’ll tax low grades If you eat, I’ll tax food If you don’t, I’ll ta... Read More
The new Bhakti Movement
Jawaharlal Nehru had (and still has) his admirers, Indira Gandhi her sycophants, and Sonia Gandhi her toadies. Narendra Modi is one up on all of them; he has admirers, sycophants, toadies—and a zill... Read More
Continuous claptrap
The Indian military complaining about shortage of funds when a soldier-worshipping, super-nationalist party is in office sounds incongruous, but the incongruities are an integral part of India. “The... Read More
Theatrics in testing times
Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar says the “culprits [of class 10 and 12 leaks] would not go scot free.” Spokespersons of the Bharatiya Janata Party have also been parroting si... Read More