Kartavya Evam Adhikar (Duties and Rights)
Recently, in one of his statements in Lok Sabha, the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, said that we need to move from an Adhikar (rights) based society to a Kartavya (duty)…
Ashok Chowgule
Working President (External), Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bharat.
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 criminal’ is way, way over the…
Abhijit Banerjee: Thank You, Prime Minister
When he came out of the meeting with the Prime Minister, Abhijit Banerjee made the following statement: “(Prime Minister) talked about his way of thinking about Bharat. Which was quite…
The Demonisation Of The Brahmin
One wonders if there is any social class anywhere in the world that is demonised as much as Bharat’s Brahmins by those occupying the intellectual spaces. The amazing irony is…
Revocation of Article 370 and special status
There is a lament amongst the Khan Market Gang that the revocation of Article 370 and Article 35A has removed the special status on the basis of which the state…
Pakistan has no choice
Cyril Almeida is a Pakistani journalist based in Karachi, who writes for Dawn, an English daily started by Jinnah. This is what he tweeted recently – cyril almeida (@cyalm) tweeted…
Media misled Rahul Gandhi, not his data analysts
A serious attempt is being made by the members of the Khan Market Gang that Rahul Gandhi was completely misled into believing that the BJP will lose a large number…
Who are the real idiots?
A few years before he passed away in 2016, Umberto Eco, an Italian contemporary writer, said: “Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke…
The terror that is Indira Jaisingh
For quite some time there has been an investigation going on over alleged violations of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) by the NGOs set up by the senior lawyer…
Katherine Mayo and the present manufacturers of intolerance
Kanchan Gupta wrote on November 30, 2015, an article at Mid-Day where he narrates ‘a Cossack folktale (he has) often recounted because it helps explain attitudes and concerns of our…