Month: January 2017
Padmavati suffers another jauhar
The attack on Padmavati film’s director Sanjay Leela Bhansali in Jaipur marks new lows in India: the assault came not...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 29 Jan 2017, 11:08There is no corruption in India
We, the people of India, live in the best of all possible worlds. After barbaric Muslim rule, the exploitative British...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 29 Jan 2017, 06:40Remembering Gulliver as Republic of Laputa celebrates 67the anniversary
As India celebrates the 67th anniversary of it becoming a republic, it is instructive to take stock of its basic...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 26 Jan 2017, 01:35Universal basic income: A vile idea
Some ideas, wrote George Orwell, are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them. Another group can be added to that—that...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 25 Jan 2017, 05:36A visit to an echo chamber
The embassy of a European country last week organized a talk by a professor from their country on the rise...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 24 Jan 2017, 11:09Why liberals hate Trump
Right from Day One, President Donald Trump is being hauled over the coals. In fact, from his inaugural address. The...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 23 Jan 2017, 11:20A scapegoat called Shivpal Yadav
In this age of finessed fakery, could a family feud be feigned? The question becomes pertinent in the context of...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 22 Jan 2017, 12:22Activists lose their war on Jallikattu
The Jallikattu controversy underlines not only the hold of activists over legislation and governance but also their disdain for tradition,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 21 Jan 2017, 12:42India should expose Pak’s genocide
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s support for the rebels in Balochistan in the Independence Day speech last year is increasingly looking...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 17 Jan 2017, 10:47Eyes of Darkness: The nation of the blind
How blind a nation can get? That is the question that comes to mind watching Amitabh Parashar’s documentary film, Eyes...
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