Month: November 2017

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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, 11:27
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What 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, 11:16
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Talibanization 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, 11:08
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Politicians 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, 12:12
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Bank 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, 02:08
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Political 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

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