Life, Leisure, Letters
Pakistanis begin to acknowledge their pre-Islamic roots
This is a battle India should not mind losing to Pakistan. To be sure, right now Islamabad is not fighting...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 17 Oct 2016, 10:57How Gandhi ruined India
Nobody in our country has played as much role in shutting down the Indian mind to reason, scientific temperament, and...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 02 Oct 2016, 01:19Dev Anand: Always a gentleman
Once upon a time, forests were green, women were beautiful, and men were chivalrous and heroic. But in this postmodern...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 28 Sep 2016, 01:53Man with a blithe spirit
On Monday, September 26, a number of articles appeared in the electronic media celebrating what would have been the 93rd...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 28 Sep 2016, 01:52Dadlani SLAPPed
The case of music composer Vishal Dadlani, whom the Supreme Court recently refused relief, has highlighted, for the nth time,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Sep 2016, 09:08Time to sack AFI autocrats
The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has not covered itself in glory by defaming and maligning marathoner O.P. Jaisha. The...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 24 Aug 2016, 02:16Modi should rein in Sri Sri, Ramdev
The abuse-and-accuse strategy, which has delivered rich dividends to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, has found favor with several men, including...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 20 Aug 2016, 10:18Let Amnesty expose itself
The Narendra Modi regime and the Sangh Parivar may find it odd but their excessive zeal to combat ‘anti-national’ elements...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 19 Aug 2016, 01:12Independence Day and content of freedom
Busy celebrating the 69th Independence Day, India tends to ignore a disturbing reality: the sphere of liberty is incessantly shrinking—and,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 15 Aug 2016, 11:20Act against Naik, not liberty
We, the people of India, claim to have become free on August 15, 1947. Over the years, however, we have...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Jul 2016, 10:54