Month: November 2017
It’s right to offend that makes speech free
What Churchill said about buildings—we shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us—is equally true for ideas. Further, bad ideas always...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 26 Nov 2017, 11:27What they don’t tell you about Russian Revolution
In a country known for ignorance of and unconcern for history, it is not surprising that few, at least in...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 26 Nov 2017, 11:16Talibanization in India
The controversy surrounding Sanjay Leela Bhansali-directed Padmavati underlines a disturbing fact about India: it is impossible for a filmmaker to...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 20 Nov 2017, 11:08Politicians are dirtier than Delhi smog
It seemed another world, perhaps in another eon, about which the Hindi poet Dharamvir Bharati wrote his poem ‘November’s afternoon’—Apne...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 09 Nov 2017, 12:12Bank recapitalization is waste of money
Child marriage is a social evil, so it should be eradicated. But what if everybody seeks to preserve it? It’s...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 02 Nov 2017, 02:08Political inertia, cultural indifference make us a ‘fear society’
Ravi Shanker Kapoor’s latest book, There is No Such Thing as Hate Speech, published recently by Bloomsbury, is a timely and...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 01 Nov 2017, 01:25