Life, Leisure, Letters
Indrani case becomes pretext to flay media
In his non-fiction work, The Rebel, Albert Camus says that “all contemporary action leads to murder, direct or indirect…”...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 05 Sep 2015, 06:44How intellectuals glorify Aurangzeb
The New Delhi Municipal Council’s (NDMC) decision to rename Aurangzeb Road in Lutyens’ Delhi as Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 30 Aug 2015, 03:38Hit FTII agitators hard
Pune’s Film & Television Institute of India is once again in the limelight—this time for the supposedly draconian crackdown...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 20 Aug 2015, 04:14Ban on porn: Max government, min governance
The Narendra Modi government’s ban Internet pornography, on the pretext of checking child pornography, is yet another instance of...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 05 Aug 2015, 02:40Shashi Tharoor is a gasbag
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not covered himself in glory by praising Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s Oxford speech...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 23 Jul 2015, 03:52In defence of Gajendra Chauhan
The 40 alumni of the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), who have extended their support to the...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 19 Jun 2015, 01:44Enemies of reason try to SLAPP Swamy
The issuance of a non-bailable warrant against BJP leader Subramanian Swamy by an Assam court is an assault on...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 03 Jun 2015, 02:43Bravo, Anupam Kher!
In a country where film stars and other celebrities wallow in platitudes and politically correct claptrap, it is indeed...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Apr 2015, 03:29Filmmakers, say no to message
How many messages the people of a country can be burdened with? This is a question worth pondering over....
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 Apr 2015, 02:39Sacrifice: The bane of India
We, the people of India, have been conditioned to believe that tyaag or sacrifice is a great virtue. The...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 25 Mar 2015, 02:13