Life, Leisure, Letters
Nationalism sucks
In the wake of JNU-Afzal Guru row and the subsequent events like Waris Pathan’s suspension from the Maharashtra Assembly, it...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 18 Mar 2016, 06:36Money > national interest
Bharatiya Janata Party MP and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Anurag Thakur has a lot of...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 14 Mar 2016, 08:15Culture of pageantry
The World Culture Festival, organized by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living (AoL) Foundation, may be a good idea,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Mar 2016, 08:19Unbridled moral policing in Mumbai
The Maharashtra government’s obstinate refusal to grant licences to dance bars has crossed all limits of propriety. The government seems...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Mar 2016, 08:31How Gandhi ensured India’s enslavement
We have been tutored to venerate Gandhi as a great philosopher, as the embodiment of nobility, profundity, and wisdom....
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 02 Oct 2015, 01:15Indrani case becomes pretext to flay media
In his non-fiction work, The Rebel, Albert Camus says that “all contemporary action leads to murder, direct or indirect…”...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 05 Sep 2015, 06:44How intellectuals glorify Aurangzeb
The New Delhi Municipal Council’s (NDMC) decision to rename Aurangzeb Road in Lutyens’ Delhi as Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 30 Aug 2015, 03:38Hit FTII agitators hard
Pune’s Film & Television Institute of India is once again in the limelight—this time for the supposedly draconian crackdown...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 20 Aug 2015, 04:14Ban on porn: Max government, min governance
The Narendra Modi government’s ban Internet pornography, on the pretext of checking child pornography, is yet another instance of...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 05 Aug 2015, 02:40Shashi Tharoor is a gasbag
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not covered himself in glory by praising Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s Oxford speech...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 23 Jul 2015, 03:52