Month: December 2016
Indian reality became post-truth before 2016
Hindutva votaries claim that everything invented in the last 5,000 years was actually invented by our ancestors in some distant...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 31 Dec 2016, 05:55A bikini called statistics
Statistics are like a bikini, said Aaron Levenstein, for what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital....
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 30 Dec 2016, 02:03UN resolution against Israel: Obama’s depravity
The United Nations Security Council’s resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem as a “flagrant violation”...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 29 Dec 2016, 11:40History as handmaiden of politics
In a bid to edit the reality according to the ruling ideology, Hindutva, a scholar has claimed that the famous...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 27 Dec 2016, 11:40The loneliness of Jaitley
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is generally regarded as a man about town as far as Lutyens’ Delhi is concerned. He...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 26 Dec 2016, 09:56How liberals are promoting jihad in Germany
The jihadist attacker who drove a 32-ton truck through a Christmas market in Berlin has, for the nth time, proved...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 25 Dec 2016, 11:28Seamier side of welfare state
Middle class Indians and intellectuals in general talk romantically about the excellent social security system in Scandinavian countries. What they...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 23 Dec 2016, 12:28Perils of marrying a Muslim man
How people name their kids is nobody else’s business, but when the naming smacks of Islamism there would be outrage....
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 21 Dec 2016, 11:15Know your Taimur
Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor have decided to name their newly born son Taimur Ali Khan Pataudi. The idea...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 21 Dec 2016, 11:37There is no Rightwing in India
On the face of it, the Right is on the ascendant. Within two-and-a-half years, the world’s two biggest democracies have...
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