As we await the inferno
Northern India, including Delhi, is facing the prospect of becoming one of the most polluted places on earth. Northern...
Pakistan, a country that is in love with lies
The Pakistani claim that their country is a victim of terror is akin to the lamentation of the drug lord...
Is Ayushman Bharat the right medicine?
Against the backdrop of inadequate state capacity and a dissolute political class, redeeming the health sector is difficult. The...
Banking on old nostrums
At the heart of banking woes are structural problems and ideological cobwebs. Einstein is said to have described absence...
When believing is seeing
The protests of intellectuals appear as the fulminations of has-beens rather than the roars of revolutionaries. Witnessing any gathering...
Dissent as smoke and mirrors
If anybody goes around with Naxals who are violent rogues, that person becomes a suspect. Dissent is legitimate but not...
Blaming the messenger: Lynching of reason
Social media platforms have indeed exacerbated the scope of evil deeds, but they have not occasioned evil. If an...
Imperial loot of India is a myth
In our schools and colleges, we are told how British rule was an unmitigated disaster, how our imperial rulers looted...
When faith acts as a stimulant
As Kanwarias throng the cities and towns of northern India, people at large patiently suffer the inconvenience of blocked or...
When ‘Moral Policeman’ Nitish ignored horrible immorality
It was the welfarist apparatus, funded by taxpayer money, that was used to run a brothel. It took a visit...
Reasoned debate, RIP, abuse (and abuser), welcome
Rarely, if ever, was logic so distant from ethics in political discourse in India. From ad hominem and tu quoque...
‘Bad’ better than ‘good’ in cinema, literature
Given our natural predilection for the deviant and the unusual, a movie on Sanjay Dutt was anyway due. T^he...
Net neutrality: A socialist idea whose time has come
By accepting net neutrality, the government has proved that it is committed to socialism. You can trust India to...
MSP hike is both bad politics and economics
The decision may provide some succour to agriculturists, but the claim that it would end farm distress is a gross...
Another awful report targets India
The Thomson Reuters Foundation survey, which says that India is the world’s most dangerous country for women, is an affront...
MEA must move beyond Nehruvian past
Our foreign office must perceive the machinations of pinkish UN tsars and discern the pattern in UN actions. John...
Little sweet in sugar package
Rural distress is not restricted to sugarcane farmers. Redemption is possible only with structural reforms. The Rs 7,000-crore sugar...
Disinvestment, then and now
It seems that the incumbent regime is uncomfortable with the D-word. We don’t slaughter cows, Arun Shourie once said,...
Sterlite: When Caesarism undermines administration
The casualty is the image of India as an investment destination. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is often accused of...
George Orwell 2.0 in Karnataka
Lawmakers elected by people are herded, flocked, and shepherded by party bosses. Is it democracy? During the high-voltage drama...
Feminism is illiberal
The recent spate of rapes highlighted by the media has once again brought the champions of feminism to the fore....
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...
We need policing, not moral policing
Instead of tilting at windmills and crusading against porn, focus should be on improving law and order. Our politicians...
Rape and reason: Remedy is in improving justice delivery system
If rape and murder have the same punishment, the culprit will find it reasonable to kill the victim, for this...
