Day: March 8, 2016
Nationalism gone berserk
Rightists, or a large section of them, seem to have lost all sense of proportion. The recent bounties announced by...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Mar 2016, 08:47US lawmakers shouldn’t meddle in India
India has rightly disallowed a proposed visit by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), which wanted to “discuss...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Mar 2016, 08:41Kanhaiya: A manufactured icon
In this age of instant communication, celebrity status comes fast. Especially if one fits into the scheme of things of...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Mar 2016, 08:33Unbridled moral policing in Mumbai
The Maharashtra government’s obstinate refusal to grant licences to dance bars has crossed all limits of propriety. The government seems...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Mar 2016, 08:31Maoist violence against childhood
During Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar’s incarceration, when many eminent jurists and prominent liberals were waxing eloquent...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Mar 2016, 08:27Kanhaiya: Free and unrepentant
The six-month interim bail to Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar will be hailed as a great victory...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Mar 2016, 08:20Chidambaram should be prosecuted
If there is even an iota of truth in the statements made by former home ministry officers G.K. Pillai and...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Mar 2016, 08:17Jaitley dumps privatization
It is a measure of the intellectual influence, rather hegemony, of the Left that nobody, certainly not Finance Minister Arun...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Mar 2016, 08:13Budget 2016: Unimaginative and uninspiring
There are very few surprises in Budget 2016-17, the most pleasant of them being Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s decision to...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Mar 2016, 08:08Unbridled sanctimony
A few years ago, the Indian cricket team, owing to its often erratic behavior, was often accused of ‘snatching defeat...
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