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Month: February 2017

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Sehwag hits another six

By Ravi Shanker Kapoor | February 28, 2017
Former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag seems to have more grey matter and wit than all the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members’ put together. The way he has satirized the fake champio... Read More

Indian Bollywood film producer Pahlaj Nihalani attends an event to honour politician and former finance minister Yashwant Sinha, who was conferred the Officer of the Legion of Honour in New Delhi earlier in the week, in Mumbai late on June 23, 2015.    AFP PHOTO        (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

CBFC guidelines are real culprit

By Ravi Shanker Kapoor | February 27, 2017
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

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ABVP feels like law unto itself

By Ravi Shanker Kapoor | February 24, 2017
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

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Myth of Sufi-Wahhabi clash

By Ravi Shanker Kapoor | February 23, 2017
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

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How freedom is gasping for breath in India

By Ravi Shanker Kapoor | February 22, 2017
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

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Ranjeet Ranjan marries politics with hypocrisy

By Ravi Shanker Kapoor | February 20, 2017
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

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Need to expedite PSU restructuring

By Ravi Shanker Kapoor | February 19, 2017
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

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Poll panel’s undue haste

By Ravi Shanker Kapoor | February 16, 2017
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

Sasikala Panneerselvam

How democracy is getting degraded

By Ravi Shanker Kapoor | February 16, 2017February 16, 2017
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

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India on highway to prohibition

By Ravi Shanker Kapoor | February 15, 2017
On the face of it, the Supreme Court’s December 2016 order banning the sale of liquor within 500 metres of national and state highways may appear an exercise in judicial outreach, even a capricious ... Read More
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