Life, Leisure, Letters
Freedom screams: Repeal Section 66A
A school student allegedly maligns the image of senior Samajwadi Party leader and Uttar Pradesh Urban Development Minister Azam...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 20 Mar 2015, 03:25India’s Daughter and India’s pathology
India’s reaction to India’s Daughter, the BBC documentary on the Nirbhaya gang-rape, has been a mix of sanctimoniousness, chauvinism,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 07 Mar 2015, 09:59Muslim woman scribe persecuted: Jinhe naaz hai secularism par wo kahaan hain?
Shirin Dalvi, who was the Mumbai bureau chief of the Urdu daily Avadhnama till two weeks ago, has lost...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 03 Feb 2015, 02:08PK and the truth about Hindu-Muslim marriages
The movie PK is in the news for a number of reasons. Some saffron outfits have complained that it...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 15 Jan 2015, 08:43Haider: Hamlet without the prince
Jesus cautioned the faithful about the menace of charlatans, saying “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 15 Jan 2015, 08:31Felony triumphs, freedoms gasp for breath
We live in an age in which villainy dons the mantle of victimhood and the victim is put on...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 14 Jan 2015, 12:54Nannies rule the roost
As if the intrusive statutory messages regarding tobacco use popping up during smoking scenes in movies and TV were...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Jan 2015, 04:37The curious case of Dinanath Batra
What would Prime Minister Narendra Modi do to Dinanath Batra? An RSS apparatchik heading the Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Jan 2015, 09:48Intellectuals encourage hypocrisy
Why is there a gulf between public discourse and private deliberations? Anything that is asserted, cherished, and promoted in...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Jan 2015, 09:35