Life, Leisure, Letters
Law Commission wants to curb free speech
The Law Commission of India’s recommendation that the government should check the so-called hate speech is a serious assault on...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 26 Mar 2017, 06:23
Liberty in India, RIP
The right to freedom of expression, though enshrined in Article 19 of the Indian Constitution, is increasingly shriveling in our...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 18 Mar 2017, 06:54
Akbar: A fine biography
If a sign of a good book is that it whets your appetite to know more about the subject, Shazi...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 05 Mar 2017, 05:08
The Left and Right of intolerance
Intolerance is soaring new heights, with Leftists and liberals slamming anybody who dares to question faddish pacifism, on the one...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 02 Mar 2017, 09:17
Sehwag hits another six
Former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag seems to have more grey matter and wit than all the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 28 Feb 2017, 11:21
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,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 27 Feb 2017, 11:22
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...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 22 Feb 2017, 10:51
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...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 16 Feb 2017, 01:17
India on highway to prohibition
On the face of it, the Supreme Court’s December 2016 order banning the sale of liquor within 500 metres of...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 15 Feb 2017, 09:19
Padmavati suffers another jauhar
The attack on Padmavati film’s director Sanjay Leela Bhansali in Jaipur marks new lows in India: the assault came not...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 29 Jan 2017, 11:08
