Author: Ravi Shanker Kapoor
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
Farming woes: The cure is not more socialism
That rhetoric and events are no substitute for reforms is increasingly becoming evident in the economic sphere. The farmers’ march...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 22 Mar 2018, 02:59
Mandatory CSR is morally reprehensible, logically repugnant, and economically wasteful
Of all the sins perpetrated by the political class against private enterprise in this century, the most conspicuous and insidious...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 22 Mar 2018, 02:52
Sonia, a perfect hypocrite
Deceit and hypocrisy are not the preserve of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In her speech at India Today Conclave 2018,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 22 Mar 2018, 02:48
Fleecing taxpayers to fatten fraudsters
Behind every great fortune, wrote the French author Honore de Balzac, lies a great crime—or a great scam, which is...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 14 Mar 2018, 11:59
Nirmala Sitharaman’s inscrutable silence
What can our country expect from the Defence Minister who cannot even defend the soldiers who are politically targeted? Well,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 14 Mar 2018, 11:55
