Author: Ravi Shanker Kapoor
In the name of Islam?
Wherever jihadists strike, the Pavlovian response of intellectuals all over the world is that the outrage was carried out...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 30 Nov 2015, 01:57Growing intolerance of intellectuals
There is a Hindi proverb, ulta chor kotwal ko daante (the thief scolding the police chief). This aptly summarizes...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 26 Nov 2015, 02:45But where would Aamir Khan go?
Film star Aamir Khan’s wife believes that the Narendra Modi government has been such a calamity that wants to...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 24 Nov 2015, 02:09Intellectuals de-Islamize terror
Even before the blood of the victims had dried on the streets of Paris, the mainstream media (MSM) in...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 15 Nov 2015, 11:29Reprimand, not revolt
That the ruling troika of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, and Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Nov 2015, 02:31There no such thing as hate speech
The issue of hate speech crops up frequently in India and elsewhere. Politicians, and often other public figures, all...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 05 Nov 2015, 02:08Swamy betrayed
The Narendra Modi government’s loathsome affidavit in the Supreme Court favoring the retention of penal provision for hate speech...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 05 Nov 2015, 01:52BJP’s shocking philistinism
Much of the outrage expressed by the eminent writers who have returned Sahitya Akademi awards is indeed selective and...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 16 Oct 2015, 11:42Sena is right on Ghulam Ali
Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali has suddenly become the touchstone of liberality and secularism. And, eager to be seen on...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 11 Oct 2015, 01:46Hintutva hotheads besmirch Hinduism
The mob attack in a Dadri village that resulted in the killing of Mohammad Akhlaq, 50, and serious injury...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 04 Oct 2015, 02:41