Life, Leisure, Letters
A critique of Nehruvian Consensus
In a country where public discourse is still hugely influenced by Left-liberals, it takes guts to come out with a...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 25 Feb 2018, 01:13The age of flippancy
Public opinion, they say, is fickle. We, however, have redefined fickleness: changing one’s views on a subject without much discernment,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 23 Dec 2017, 11:26It’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, 11:27Talibanization 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, 11:08Political 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, 01:25BHU’s VC is a disgrace; should be prosecuted
That a Neanderthal man is the Vice-Chancellor of the prestigious Banaras Hindu University (BHU) is shame enough; that Girish Chandra...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Oct 2017, 01:45Evolving with Subramanian Swamy: A Roller Coaster Ride
Nobody likes or dislikes Subramanian Swamy; they love or hate him. He is fortunate enough that his wife, Roxna, belongs...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 02 Oct 2017, 11:09SC frees Indians from netas
The Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision by nine judges, declared privacy “as an intrinsic part of the right to...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 30 Aug 2017, 11:10Culture of intolerance in the name of culture
The complaint filed against actor Kamal Haasan by a fringe group, Hindu Makkal Katchi, for hosting Bigg Boss Tamil is...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 14 Jul 2017, 12:54Hypocrisy, thy name is Chidambaram
Normally, there are two kinds of politicians—hypocrites and unabashed hypocrites. Congress leader and former Union minister P. Chidambaram belongs to...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Jul 2017, 10:27