Democracy means freedom for one and all, not just for the elite
The Hindu nationalist viewpoint has been demonised by drawing outlandish parallels to Nazism and excluded from the columns of mainstream...
Don’t worship a false icon like Tipu
The dogged persistence of the Karnataka government to continue with the Tipu Sultan celebrations for a fourth year in a...
NRC’s roots cannot be ignored
The political hue and cry over the release of the final draft of the Assam NRC (National Register of Citizens)...
Delete Pak from Kashmir equation
It was neither a match made in heaven nor a match made for each other. It was an unlikely amalgam...
The Northeast becomes the centre
The impressive electoral success of the BJP in the northeastern states of Tripura and Nagaland are epoch making events to...
Attempts being made to drive wedge between Dalits and other Hindus
The violent clash, allegedly between saffron waving groups and Dalits that erupted during the 200th anniversary celebrations of the Bhima-Koregaon...
Babri controversy, 25 years later
The demolition of the Babri-Masjid on 6 December 1992 was a political earthquake of seismic proportions that jolted the country...
Padmavati: The need of the hour is objectivity
India’s turbulent past with its innumerable alien invasions, rampant religious devastation and incredible material predation is a fertile ground for...
The judiciary must tread with caution
The Indian judiciary has been a rock of stability, a tempering force and the sage ultimate adjudicator in a seemingly...
This government has much to be proud of
Political discourse in India responds to frenzy, sensationalism and hype. It is a narrative driven overwhelmingly by personalities and identities...
Mobocracy is the bane of our society
Political discourse, the lifeline of a democratic society has become so partisan, so ideologically driven and vindictive in nature in...
Articles 370, 35A no longer valid
The studied decision of the Supreme Court to expand the ambit of the petition challenging the validity of Article 35A...
The bogey of 1962 must be erased
Riding a sagging but impressive economic prosperity and mesmerised by its own fantastic and exaggerated delusions of grandeur, China has...
Cow vigilantism is a criminal aberration
When the apocalypse that you prophesised with supreme confidence does not arrive, when the doomsday scenario that you presaged proves...
There cannot be any compromise with Kashmir’s separatists
The doomsday scenario vis-à-vis Kashmir being portrayed with alarming alacrity by a clutch of prominent personalities that include the historian...
The ethnic cleansing we have forgotten
To forget an evil is to condone the crime; to pardon an atrocity is to see it recur with dangerous...
Demonetisation is not about money alone
“Man doth not live by bread only”, so goes the adage from the Old Testament, implying that the sum total...
Restraint or not, Pak a threat to world peace
Despite India’s timely and evidence driven calls to brand Pakistan a terrorist state subject to international sanctions and despite the...
Wahhabis in Kashmir, your moon has blood clots
Clichéd interpretations contribute little to mitigating discord; they merely reinforce traditional ideological positions, make for sensational news-bites and heart-rending narratives;...
Kashmir: It’s time to call a spade a spade
The violent and raucous protests intentionally barrelled out onto the streets, the shrill extremist rhetoric and the ominous prognostications emanating...
China must reconsider its UN veto
China’s inveterate discordance with India is intuitively visceral rather than cerebral; a flagrant exposition of a primordial instinct driven by...
Genuine Hindutva is not radical
The campaign to demonise the Hindu nationalist movement is indefatigable; it knows no bounds, conforms to no stipulations and defies...
Tread gently while talking to Pakistan
It was a diplomatic upheaval that registered high on the Richter scale; a volte-face nonpareil; an embarrassing U-turn that collides...
Be like the French
The diabolical terror assault that devastated Paris on the night of 13 November was eerily familiar: it was a ditto...
