India
Reprimand, not revolt
That the ruling troika of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, and Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Nov 2015, 02:31There no such thing as hate speech
The issue of hate speech crops up frequently in India and elsewhere. Politicians, and often other public figures, all...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 05 Nov 2015, 02:08Swamy betrayed
The Narendra Modi government’s loathsome affidavit in the Supreme Court favoring the retention of penal provision for hate speech...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 05 Nov 2015, 01:52BJP’s shocking philistinism
Much of the outrage expressed by the eminent writers who have returned Sahitya Akademi awards is indeed selective and...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 16 Oct 2015, 11:42Sena is right on Ghulam Ali
Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali has suddenly become the touchstone of liberality and secularism. And, eager to be seen on...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 11 Oct 2015, 01:46Hintutva hotheads besmirch Hinduism
The mob attack in a Dadri village that resulted in the killing of Mohammad Akhlaq, 50, and serious injury...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 04 Oct 2015, 02:41Hindutva fanatics besmirch Hinduism
The biggest problem Hindu society faces today is that many of its professed champions are involved in activities that...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 20 Sep 2015, 07:52Meat ban exposes BJP as anti-Hindu
As if the meat ban during a Jain festival were not enough, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Culture...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 15 Sep 2015, 12:02Ansari peddles Muslim victimhood
Vice-President M. Hamid Ansari’s fulmination about Muslims’ plight in India is as astonishing as it is deplorable. Interestingly, his...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 03 Sep 2015, 03:33Hardik Patel symbolizes Modi’s failure
Typically, the meteoric rise of Hardik Patel, who is demanding the other backward class or OBC status for Patels,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 28 Aug 2015, 02:32