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A few questions to Sanjaya Baru on his categorization of Lutyens’ media
In his book “India’s Power Elite”, Sanjaya Baru writes: “I had categorised Delhi’s media into four groups: (a) the pure professional (b) pro-government (c)...
No Hindol, its not the affluent class but Nehruvian power elite who are responsible for Covid-19 crisis
Vikram -
With the Covid-19 second wave raging through Bharat, commentary on need for introspection, systemic failures, societal attitudes, proposed solutions etc was expected. Such churning...
Sanjay Baru and Karan Thapar mourn loss of influence for Lutyens’ Power Elite
Anuradha -
For the launch of his latest book “India’s Power Elite: Class, Caste, and Cultural Revolution,” former bureaucrat Sanjay Baru chose to do an interview...
एक नए सांस्कृतिक भारत का उदय हो रहा है: संजय बारू
“प्रधानमंत्री मोदी ने एक नए सांस्कृतिक भारत का निर्माण किया है, जो कुलीनता विरोधी है और बौद्धिकता-विरोधी है (एंटी-एलीट और एंटी इंटेलेक्चुअलिजम) और एक...
Dear SC, why can’t Shaheen Bagh protestors move to Jantar Mantar/Ramlila Maidan where everyone else protests?
In September 2016, after the horrific Uri terror attack which shook the entire nation, a group of us living in NCR decided to pay...
Calling Rahul Bajaj’s bluff over ‘atmosphere of fear’ remark is not intolerance of dissent
Vikram -
There is a fresh spring in the step of the old establishment elites. These benefactors of the stifling & decayed Nehruvian 'Ídea of India'...
Way, way over the top.
There are many things that one can legitimately find fault with Indira Gandhi. But to term her as ‘the economic equivalent of a war...
Lutyens’ Darling Mani Shankar Aiyar threatens to hit News 18 journalist, tells him to “F*** Off”
Veteran Congress leader & Nehru-Gandhi family loyalist Mani Shankar Aiyar Tuesday is back in the news.
First, he justified the neech aadmi (lowly man) casteist...
Lutyens Circuit’s Resilience Against Modi-Led Changes
Web Desk -
For the past three years, lutyens’ Delhi has been in the throes of a deep existential crisis. The departure of the Congress from the seat of power always affects it profoundly...
An Indian Marxist exposes his own stupidity
Siddharth Vardarajan, an American citizen, is one of the rare hard-core Marxists left in the world. While such Marxists in the erstwhile Soviet Union...