Ravi Shankar

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Modi’s centrality is in jeopardy

It is not Rahul Gandhi that Modi should worry about, Modi the Man is Modi the Image. For seven years and more, the centrality of Modi in Indian public consciousness defined politics.

11 Jul 2021

The science of political variants in Covid-19 times

Government bashers are unaware that a Statue of Unity-sized top secret effort is underway to bloody the coronavirus’s nose.

03 Jul 2021

A new Rao-Manmohan team in the offing?
 

In May, no bookie would have put money on an understated Southern politician becoming India’s most progressive leader.

29 Jun 2021

Love, Actually: The effects of the pandemic on human bonding

Relationships have changed drastically during enforced seclusion and togetherness since the pandemic struck.

27 Jun 2021

Greeks bearing gifts: Understanding the history of Indo-Greek cuisine

After Alexander’s invasion, the history of the 4th century BC Indo-Greek kingdom is a history of the cuisines of the world

26 Jun 2021

Shaping an opposition in PK's form

The tactician behind Mamata Banerjee's thunderous victory declared that he was no longer in the election game.

20 Jun 2021

Are aliens real? Close encounters of many kinds

Are aliens real? A Pentagon report containing details about UFOs and clandestine space programmes will be out this month.
 

13 Jun 2021

Fowl is Fair

Chicken curry, the most underrated Indian culinary export, has innumerable avatars that define the country’s history and regions

13 Jun 2021

Dear government, please take a joke

For a powerful government to perceive a cartoon as a threat is either a sign of fear or intolerance of criticism.

12 Jun 2021

'The evil empire': Is China on its way to world domination?

With reports alleging that the novel coronavirus was made in China, President Xi Jinping has made the first move towards world domination giving India reason to worry
 

06 Jun 2021

Israel is the victim of history’s hatred

The liberals are clamouring for Israel to be tried for human rights crimes, but not the Hamas which fired over 4,000 rockets into the Jewish homeland.

05 Jun 2021

The contest between belief and relief

Romanticising rural India or for that matter the bucolic parts of any country can be emotionally satisfying because everyone craves pastoral purity.

28 May 2021

Showing the Gates: What is the future of the Gates Foundation

The surprise divorce of Bill Gates and wife Melinda has exposed a marriage fraught with infidelity and derision.

28 May 2021

An open letter from a cow to all Indians

I’m a cow living in India, mostly in Bharat. I am a gentle beast. I have horns, but I do not hurt people.

22 May 2021