Month: July 2016
Hindutva cowboys and government’s narcissism
On the face of it, it is astonishing that the Sangh Parivar, including the Bharatiya Janata Party, failed to perceive...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 22 Jul 2016, 09:01Rahul sleeps during debate on Dalits in Lok Sabha
A video grab appeared on Wednesday showing Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi sleeping inside the Lok Sabha during a heated debate...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 20 Jul 2016, 11:59BJP sacks UP leader who badmouthed Maya
The Bharatiya Janata Party has sacked its newly-appointed vice-president of the Uttar Pradesh unit, Daya Shankar Singh, who had made...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 20 Jul 2016, 11:46Beating of Dalits over cow killing burns Gujarat
The brutal thrashing in full public view of four young Dalit men in broad daylight has triggered widespread protests in...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 20 Jul 2016, 11:36Just deserts for Rahul Gandhi
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is in a spot—and rightly so. Unquestioningly accepting the authenticity of the age-old Leftist-Congress canard that...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 20 Jul 2016, 12:04Sidhu quits RS; likely to move to AAP
Cricketer-turned-BJP leader Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned on Monday from Rajya Sabha, to which he was nominated by the government in...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 18 Jul 2016, 11:39Bastille Day attack: Intellectuals shield Islamism
The reactions of public intellectuals and the mainstream media to Islamist attacks follow a pattern: blame everything from the lack...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 16 Jul 2016, 05:48Jihad storms Bastille Day celebrations
If the storming of the Bastille triggered and symbolized the French Revolution, the attack against the Bastille Day celebrations on...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 16 Jul 2016, 02:26India flays Pak’s glorification of Burhan Wani
India strongly condemned Pakistan on Friday for its announcement that July 19 would be observed as “black day” to express...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 16 Jul 2016, 12:14156 rescued from South Sudan
A special Indian Air Force (IAF) craft, C-17 Globemaster, on Friday brought 156 persons, including 46 from Kerala, back to...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 15 Jul 2016, 11:51