RIGHT PERSPECTIVE
Intellectuals support jihad
The Manchester attack, in which 22 people died and 64 wounded, shows that the Western civilization ought to be saved from its own public intellectuals rather than from jihad. To be precise, the West i... Read More
Paresh Rawal disgraces himself
By tweeting that Arundhati Roy should be tied to the Army jeep instead of the alleged stone-pelting miscreant, Bharatiya Janata Party MP Paresh Rawal has not covered himself in glory. What he and the ... Read More
India’s un-splendid isolation on OBOR
In politics, wrote the great American writer Will Durant, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. The same is also true about geo-economics and geo-politics. But, unfortunately, In... Read More
Bootlicking as journalism
After the end of the Emergency, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani famously told a group of editors: “You were all asked to bend—but why on earth did all of you crawl?” That was th... Read More
Time to dump Swadeshi fogeys
By approving the commercial use of indigenously developed genetically modified mustard, a government panel has sent across a good signal; it has made it clear that the Luddite activists would not be h... Read More
Job creation calls for more than good intentions
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has now reportedly turned his attention to employment generation. This is very good, but he must realize that job creation is an indirect consequence of a country’s broa... Read More
France flirts with jihad
The huge defeat of nationalist and protectionist candidate Marine Le Pen at the hands of the centrist Emmanuel Macron is symptomatic of the strong self-destructive impulses in France in particular and... Read More
Frenzied lamentations
Can a person be a mass murderer and a Gandhi devotee at the same time? A jihadist and a peace-lover simultaneously? A sinner and a saint? A oenophile (wine connoisseur) and a teetotaler? A scholar and... Read More