Ravi Shankar
Did we come from apes and fish? Or AI?
Religion and science have been battling it out for centuries over the authorship of man. Hindus believe that Brahma created man and woman by divvying himself into two.
20 hours ago
Will prison walls a leader make
Justice is blind. The law is cockeyed. The caged hawks have been let out, to go for the Gandhi jugular.
18 Jun 2022
End Bollywood control of geography of greatness
In Canadian actor Akshay Kumar’s crossword version of Indian history, ‘Mughal’ is a four-letter word.
11 Jun 2022
Netaji in Nagaland: The untold story
A 103-year-old freedom fighter recalls his life with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose who came to stay in his mountain village during the INA advance into India By Ravi Shankar
05 Jun 2022
Why elections don’t always mean democracy
He is Chinese dictator Xi Jinping’s puppet panjandrum who oversaw the savage suppression of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests. The farce of democracy couldn’t be more complete.
04 Jun 2022
The tyranny of little guys
Indian public life has become ludicrously litigious with a police complainant hiding behind every door, ready to leap out with a punitive yell to torment cocky columnists and social media mavericks.
21 May 2022
Leave Lord Hanuman Out of Power Games
Trust politicians to warp the most sacred of symbols to feed their power hunger.
14 May 2022
Stop medical hypocrisy, not Hippocrates
Hindu, Hindutva and Bharat are the soapboxes of the day, which every obscure wannabe nationalist uses as a podium.
07 May 2022
Out of the Blue
Elon Musk buys Twitter, the world’s most powerful social media weapon which has 23 million Indian users. What does this mean for free speech, trolls and government control?
30 Apr 2022
India Needs Charm Offensive to Avoid a MEA Culpa
The subcontinent is a seismic zone where pressures and shifts from the US, China and Russia make the tectonic plates of geo-power groan in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka.
23 Apr 2022
Pakistan beyond Imran
The crisis can help Pakistan take a hard look at its exploitative elite or allow the country to slide into irrevocable darkness
11 Apr 2022
South Goes North with a New Endgame
Dravidian power officially planted its flag in the heart of North Indian power last week.
09 Apr 2022
Humour is freedom’s subversive statement
Was it fine for Will Smith to get pissed off at funnyman Chris Rock for joshing his wife Jada who has a hair fall problem?
02 Apr 2022
Selective indignation is racist hypocrisy
All lives are equal but some are more equal than the others. Caucasian lives command a larger premium in the outrage market than others.
28 Mar 2022
Go! Tumultuous times for the Gandhis to walk away from the Congress leadership bridge
It is time for the Congress to look within and beyond the Gandhis. But the family seems in no hurry to vacate the premises.
20 Mar 2022
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