India

Nationalism gone berserk

Rightists, or a large section of them, seem to have lost all sense of proportion. The recent bounties announced by...

Read More  By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Mar 2016, 08:47

Kanhaiya: A manufactured icon

In this age of instant communication, celebrity status comes fast. Especially if one fits into the scheme of things of...

Read More  By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Mar 2016, 08:33

Maoist violence against childhood

During Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar’s incarceration, when many eminent jurists and prominent liberals were waxing eloquent...

Read More  By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Mar 2016, 08:27

Kanhaiya: Free and unrepentant

The six-month interim bail to Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar will be hailed as a great victory...

Read More  By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Mar 2016, 08:20

Chidambaram should be prosecuted

If there is even an iota of truth in the statements made by former home ministry officers G.K. Pillai and...

Read More  By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Mar 2016, 08:17

Unbridled sanctimony

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

Clueless Khattar

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

Sedition charges are excessive

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

Azaadi is slavery

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

BJP?s self-goal

  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