Ravi Shanker Kapoor, Author at The Hindu Chronicle

There are very few surprises in Budget 2016-17, the most pleasant of them being Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s decision to...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Mar 2016, 08:08

A few years ago, the Indian cricket team, owing to its often erratic behavior, was often accused of ‘snatching defeat...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Mar 2016, 08:05

The depredations wrought by the violent Jat agitation in Haryana are as much testimony to the inadequacies of the Narendra...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Mar 2016, 08:00

The arrest of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar on charges of sedition is certainly excessive. Indeed, the...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 06 Mar 2016, 12:06

Donald Trump has become the favorite hate object of liberals all over the world. From those Parliamentarians in the UK...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 27 Feb 2016, 12:11

After appropriating Sardar Patel and Ambedkar, the Narendra Modi government is ready for encore. This time, the target is a...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 27 Feb 2016, 12:02

There is little surprise in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent Leftward turn. Aadhar, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 27 Feb 2016, 11:57

Governments change, said James Bond in Golden Eye, the lies stay the same. A few years ago, when the economy...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 27 Feb 2016, 11:54

Some ideas are so stupid, George Orwell wrote, that only intellectuals believe them. Azaadi, as promoted by Afzal Guru and...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 27 Feb 2016, 11:45

I am not sure if I recollect it verbatim, but the Urdu couplet that comes to mind in the...

Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 24 Jan 2016, 02:45

Author: Ravi Shanker Kapoor