Life, Leisure, Letters
Liberals on jihad mode against Kanye West and the West
The rapper Kanye West’s slavery remarks are indeed insensitive. He suggested that the blacks in America chose to become and...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 17 May 2018, 11:43
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
