Month: February 2017
CBFC guidelines are real culprit
Pahlaj Nihalani never was so much in news when he was actually part of the film industry, making execrable movies, as he is now, enjoying a sinecure as the chief of the Central Board of Film Certifica... Read More
ABVP feels like law unto itself
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s student wing, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), has not covered itself in glory by participating, if not triggering, the ruckus in Delhi University’s Ramj... Read More
Myth of Sufi-Wahhabi clash
Liberals love to pit Sufism against the puritan forms of Islam like Wahhabism and Salafism, often presenting Sufism as the real thing, the soul of Islam. Concomitantly, Wahhabism is presented as a cor... Read More
How freedom is gasping for breath in India
The attacks on Canadian writer of Pakistani origin and television personality Tarek Fatah are growing by the day. A day after he was thrown out of the Jashn-e-Rekhta festival in Delhi, a religious org... Read More
Ranjeet Ranjan marries politics with hypocrisy
No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. It is a subject of debate who made this remark, for it has been attributed to Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, and Gide... Read More
Need to expedite PSU restructuring
The Narendra Modi government appears to be as ambiguous over the public sector as ever. Now it wants to list all profit-making public sector undertakings (PSUs)—a good move indeed but it’s typical... Read More
Poll panel’s undue haste
The Election Commission’s promptitude in ordering FIRs against Dainik Jagran’s website smacks of undue haste, if not high-handedness and disproportionate action. The website allegedly posted the r... Read More
How democracy is getting degraded
Words retain their etymology for a long time. ‘Herd’ and ‘shepherd,’ when used as verbs, are such words. Their association with sheep and goats is known quite well, and used even by urbanites ... Read More