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Modi promises, Trump delivers
It is fashionable among liberals to find similarities between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump. Since there...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 07 Feb 2017, 01:25There is no corruption in India
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, 06:40A scapegoat called Shivpal Yadav
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, 12:22Union Budget postponement: A non-issue
Indian politicians love to make a big fuss about non-issues. The demand for the postponement of the Union Budget in...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 05 Jan 2017, 10:47Regressive netas help molesters
Some incidents in India have predictable follow-up reactions. Molestation of women is one of them. A large number of women...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 03 Jan 2017, 09:36Intellectuals turn blind eye to Muslim appeasement
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her administration seem to working at cross purposes. She has denied any rioting...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 01 Jan 2017, 10:26The loneliness of Jaitley
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is generally regarded as a man about town as far as Lutyens’ Delhi is concerned. He...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 26 Dec 2016, 09:56Perils of marrying a Muslim man
How people name their kids is nobody else’s business, but when the naming smacks of Islamism there would be outrage....
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 21 Dec 2016, 11:15There is no Rightwing in India
On the face of it, the Right is on the ascendant. Within two-and-a-half years, the world’s two biggest democracies have...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 20 Dec 2016, 11:15How political debate degenerated into cacophony
With the government and the opposition accusing each other of running away from debate, and commentariat splitting hairs to apportion...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 19 Dec 2016, 10:54