Month: January 2015
The industry of crying wolf
One of the fastest growing sectors in India is the industry of crying wolf. Be it liberalization, privatization, or...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Jan 2015, 02:09Poverty: A new deity
Once upon a time, might was right and justice was the interest of the strong. Whichever brigand became powerful...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Jan 2015, 01:56Perversity of Indian intellectual
If you are not a communist before 30, they say, you have no heart, and if you are a...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Jan 2015, 10:13The curious case of Dinanath Batra
What would Prime Minister Narendra Modi do to Dinanath Batra? An RSS apparatchik heading the Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Jan 2015, 09:48Intellectuals encourage hypocrisy
Why is there a gulf between public discourse and private deliberations? Anything that is asserted, cherished, and promoted in...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Jan 2015, 09:35Intellectuals refuse to see love jihad
When liberals and intellectuals do not see what they like to see, they don’t come to terms with the...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Jan 2015, 04:24The myth of youthful exuberance
Jayalalithaa’s conviction in the disproportionate assets case has also brought into focus a woman lawyer, 87-year-old Lily Thomas. She...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Jan 2015, 04:20Coal strike: Modi refuses to take a leaf out of Thatcher’s book
The five-day coal strike, which caused a loss of Rs 70 crore the very first day, epitomizes several ills of...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Jan 2015, 04:14The indecency of decency
The duplicity of our politicians is astounding. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s accused Aam Aadmi Party chief and former...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Jan 2015, 04:06Higher excise on petrol, diesel is bad economics, bad politics
The government’s decision to increase the excise duty on petrol and diesel, the third time in a two months, is...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 11 Jan 2015, 02:35