Life, Leisure, Letters
CBFC guidelines are real culprit
Pahlaj Nihalani never was so much in news when he was actually part of the film industry, making execrable movies,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 27 Feb 2017, 11:22
How freedom is gasping for breath in India
The attacks on Canadian writer of Pakistani origin and television personality Tarek Fatah are growing by the day. A day...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 22 Feb 2017, 10:51
Poll panel’s undue haste
The Election Commission’s promptitude in ordering FIRs against Dainik Jagran’s website smacks of undue haste, if not high-handedness and disproportionate...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 16 Feb 2017, 01:17
India on highway to prohibition
On the face of it, the Supreme Court’s December 2016 order banning the sale of liquor within 500 metres of...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 15 Feb 2017, 09:19
Padmavati suffers another jauhar
The attack on Padmavati film’s director Sanjay Leela Bhansali in Jaipur marks new lows in India: the assault came not...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 29 Jan 2017, 11:08
Remembering Gulliver as Republic of Laputa celebrates 67the anniversary
As India celebrates the 67th anniversary of it becoming a republic, it is instructive to take stock of its basic...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 26 Jan 2017, 01:35
Activists lose their war on Jallikattu
The Jallikattu controversy underlines not only the hold of activists over legislation and governance but also their disdain for tradition,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 21 Jan 2017, 12:42
Eyes of Darkness: The nation of the blind
How blind a nation can get? That is the question that comes to mind watching Amitabh Parashar’s documentary film, Eyes...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 14 Jan 2017, 08:55
Indian reality became post-truth before 2016
Hindutva votaries claim that everything invented in the last 5,000 years was actually invented by our ancestors in some distant...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 31 Dec 2016, 05:55
History as handmaiden of politics
In a bid to edit the reality according to the ruling ideology, Hindutva, a scholar has claimed that the famous...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 27 Dec 2016, 11:40
