Author: Ravi Shanker Kapoor
So mundane
A visit to Ayodhya, I was told, would drive me to my faith. Being an agnostic Hindu, I wasn’t very...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 30 Jul 2019, 11:04
Lynching: The rampaging monster
The Supreme Court’s notices to the Central government, the National Human Rights Commission, and state governments over unabated mob lynchings...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 27 Jul 2019, 06:56
RIP, Sheila Dikshit
Poignancy was evident in the reactions of politicians and people at large over the death of former Delhi chief minister...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 21 Jul 2019, 10:51
50 years of bane called bank nationalization
Half a century ago, a day before Neil Armstrong’s “one giant leap for mankind,” Indira Gandhi made a giant stride—to...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 20 Jul 2019, 02:37
Dil pukare, aa re aa re aa re…: Unparalleled beauty
As in most songs of Vijay Anand-directed movies, this one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYjy6StBg3E) too is embedded in the backdrop—picturesque surroundings, a melody...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 18 Jul 2019, 10:52
Big Sister is watching
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s decision to restrict the entry of journalists to North Block, which houses her Ministry, should be...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 16 Jul 2019, 11:01
Modi promotes water conservation, literature
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Mann Ki Baat programme on radio yesterday, the first after returning to power, has been widely...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 01 Jul 2019, 01:22
Modi makes 5 recommendations at BRICS meet
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made five key recommendations in an intervention at the BRICS leaders’ informal meeting on the margins...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 28 Jun 2019, 08:56
The oneness syndrome
The Narendra Modi government’s keenness on ‘one nation, simultaneous elections’ becomes evident from the fact that President Ram Nath Kovind,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 28 Jun 2019, 12:28
Kohli’s reckless generosity
Excess of everything is bad, even that of a virtue like sportsmanship. Indian skipper Virat Kohli ought to realize this....
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 17 Jun 2019, 02:02
