Ravi Shankar
Non-BJP federalism and modified India for 2024
Since Muslims comprise only 12.91 percent of the population, it can be safely assumed that most Hindus in 135 constituencies didn’t panic about love jihad.
25 May 2023
Rewriting history has geographical perils
Students aren’t taught about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. But many young Chinese, eager to know more about their past, are learning about the country’s erased past online.
16 Apr 2023
Pastoral pandering of soul and style
A unique gourmet destination with sustainable design aesthetics took a hedge fund manager and celebrity architect seven years to build
15 Apr 2023
Trump ensures American civilisation is a dud
The journey of a nation to empire status and coming of age as a civilisation is an arduous passage.
10 Apr 2023
Words speak louder than actions in Bihar
A language is neither good nor bad; superior or inferior. Language is an evolving cultural experience, which is connected to experience through memory.
01 Apr 2023
Modi aces global leadership crisis
China’s Xi is busy putting down revolts and jailing critics as the economy falters and official corruption is rampant.
24 Mar 2023
Paradox of the liberal racists
Even now, arts, culture, science, medicine and finance in the West have white donors and patrons.
18 Mar 2023
Reservation in corruption counterproductive
Once, politics used to be live and let live, to die another day: vindictiveness, not vindication, defined the brotherhood of corruption.
11 Mar 2023
The fall and fall of Pakistan
Islamist policies, political and military corruption, and a terrorism problem of its own creation has brought India’s rogue neighbour to the brink of destruction
05 Mar 2023
Indian right must fill its scholarship blanks
The question to B or not to BBC cannot be resolved in India. The Indian Right seems to lack the intellectual depth and scholarship to mount a counter-narrative.
29 Jan 2023
Judiciary, executive can't be law unto themselves
In a democracy, everywhere, the winning lot is considered the good lot. Democracy’s greatest flaw, and its greatest virtue, is the will of the people.
21 Jan 2023
The sudden Russian death syndrome
The defenestration of millionaire Pavel Antov in Odisha is the latest in a series of mysterious deaths of Russian oligarchs, millionaires and members of Putin’s inner circle
10 Jan 2023
Rahul's beard of self-discovery
Beards in politics are mainly subcontinental affairs. American, British, European and Australian leaders are largely clean-shaven, except for the few Sikh politicians and wannabe Khalistanis in Canada
07 Jan 2023
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