India
Should be seen as impartial
Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora’s homilies on election commissioners being independent minded functionaries cut no ice. He has a lot...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 19 May 2019, 12:51Of sacrificial lambs and scapegoats
Ever wondered why a goat is sacrificed? Well, you can’t sacrifice a lion, for he is capable of returning the...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 18 May 2019, 05:52Petulant patriotism
A lot of people are demanding an apology from the British government for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. On April...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 19 Apr 2019, 11:24‘Next-door boy’ Indranil Banerjee contests from Dum Dum
Indranil Banerjee, a close associate of senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy is fighting the...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 15 Apr 2019, 11:33Netas destroying India
The only time politicians in India speak the truth is when they talk against each other. But they remains boring...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 16 Sep 2018, 01:56The said and the unsaid
The picture of Atal Bihari Vajpayee portrayed by the media and others after his death is that of a cultured...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 21 Aug 2018, 08:56A dark horse gets ready
At the fag end of Jawaharlal Nehru’s regime, political commentators discussed no end ‘after Nehru who’; an American journalist even...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 18 Jul 2018, 11:34Ex-Prez holds a mirror to Congress
The political controversy created by former president Pranab Mukherjee’s speech at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur has actually underlined much...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 26 Jun 2018, 08:46George Orwell 2.0 in Karnataka
During the high-voltage drama in Karnataka, a lot of terms pertaining to domestication were used—flock, herd, poaching, shepherd, horse trading,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 17 Jun 2018, 11:47Dalit tourism: When defeat finds a parent
Bharatiya Janata Party Parliamentarian Udit Raj is right in slamming his own party leaders’ stunt of eating at Dalit homes....
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 07 May 2018, 11:21