Life, Leisure, Letters
Net neutrality: A socialist idea whose time has come
You can trust India to remain faithfully wedded to the big-state dogma. By accepting the principle of net neutrality, which...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 22 Jul 2018, 11:46
MEA must move beyond Nehruvian past
John O’Sullivan, a British conservative commentator, has a law named after him. O’Sullivan’s First Law says: “All organisations that are...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 22 Jul 2018, 11:37
Feminism is illiberal
The recent spate of rapes highlighted by the media has once again brought the champions of feminism to the fore....
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 17 Jun 2018, 11:44
Liberals on jihad mode against Kanye West and the West
The rapper Kanye West’s slavery remarks are indeed insensitive. He suggested that the blacks in America chose to become and...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 17 May 2018, 11:43
Getting it Right: On his 200th birth anniversary, Karl Marx continues to haunt us
Karl Marx was one of the greatest thinkers ever born; however, the adjective ‘greatest’ here doesn’t connote the beneficent aspects...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 04 May 2018, 11:49
Jaitley’s goal in life (a poem)
If you speak, I’ll tax speech If you don’t, I’ll tax silence If you score well, I’ll tax high score...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 04 May 2018, 08:41
The new Bhakti Movement
Jawaharlal Nehru had (and still has) his admirers, Indira Gandhi her sycophants, and Sonia Gandhi her toadies. Narendra Modi is...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 19 Apr 2018, 11:06
Continuous claptrap
The Indian military complaining about shortage of funds when a soldier-worshipping, super-nationalist party is in office sounds incongruous, but the...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 09 Apr 2018, 12:18
Theatrics in testing times
Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar says the “culprits [of class 10 and 12 leaks] would not go scot free.”...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 30 Mar 2018, 05:28
How to invent a martyr
Everybody loves a martyr in India. And the intensity of love is so great that if some group finds no...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 22 Mar 2018, 03:07
