Life, Leisure, Letters
Getting it Right: On his 200th birth anniversary, Karl Marx continues to haunt us
Karl Marx was one of the greatest thinkers ever born; however, the adjective ‘greatest’ here doesn’t connote the beneficent aspects...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 04 May 2018, 11:49
Jaitley’s goal in life (a poem)
If you speak, I’ll tax speech If you don’t, I’ll tax silence If you score well, I’ll tax high score...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 04 May 2018, 08:41
The new Bhakti Movement
Jawaharlal Nehru had (and still has) his admirers, Indira Gandhi her sycophants, and Sonia Gandhi her toadies. Narendra Modi is...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 19 Apr 2018, 11:06
Continuous claptrap
The Indian military complaining about shortage of funds when a soldier-worshipping, super-nationalist party is in office sounds incongruous, but the...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 09 Apr 2018, 12:18
Theatrics in testing times
Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar says the “culprits [of class 10 and 12 leaks] would not go scot free.”...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 30 Mar 2018, 05:28
How to invent a martyr
Everybody loves a martyr in India. And the intensity of love is so great that if some group finds no...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 22 Mar 2018, 03:07
A critique of Nehruvian Consensus
In a country where public discourse is still hugely influenced by Left-liberals, it takes guts to come out with a...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 25 Feb 2018, 01:13
The age of flippancy
Public opinion, they say, is fickle. We, however, have redefined fickleness: changing one’s views on a subject without much discernment,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 23 Dec 2017, 11:26
It’s right to offend that makes speech free
What Churchill said about buildings—we shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us—is equally true for ideas. Further, bad ideas always...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 26 Nov 2017, 11:27
Talibanization in India
The controversy surrounding Sanjay Leela Bhansali-directed Padmavati underlines a disturbing fact about India: it is impossible for a filmmaker to...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 20 Nov 2017, 11:08
