Ravi Shanker Kapoor, Author at The Hindu Chronicle

The reaction of the mainstream media and public figures to US President Donald Trump’s order pertaining to more rigorous screening...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 04 Feb 2017, 04:55

The best that can be said about Budget 2017-18 is that it is not bad, which is actually a big...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 02 Feb 2017, 01:05

The attack on Padmavati film’s director Sanjay Leela Bhansali in Jaipur marks new lows in India: the assault came not...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 29 Jan 2017, 11:08

We, the people of India, live in the best of all possible worlds. After barbaric Muslim rule, the exploitative British...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 29 Jan 2017, 06:40

As India celebrates the 67th anniversary of it becoming a republic, it is instructive to take stock of its basic...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 26 Jan 2017, 01:35

Some ideas, wrote George Orwell, are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them. Another group can be added to that—that...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 25 Jan 2017, 05:36

The embassy of a European country last week organized a talk by a professor from their country on the rise...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 24 Jan 2017, 11:09

Right from Day One, President Donald Trump is being hauled over the coals. In fact, from his inaugural address. The...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 23 Jan 2017, 11:20

In this age of finessed fakery, could a family feud be feigned? The question becomes pertinent in the context of...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 22 Jan 2017, 12:22

The Jallikattu controversy underlines not only the hold of activists over legislation and governance but also their disdain for tradition,...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 21 Jan 2017, 12:42

Author: Ravi Shanker Kapoor