H. H. Asquith’s eventful tenure as British prime minister (1908-16) in the high noon of the Liberal Party was rendered colorful by the devastatingly witty utterances of his formidable wife…
Those who wish to know why simple, straightforward, uncomplicated people hold in revulsion those fond of publicly flaunting their “liberal” credentials now have a ready referral: Indira Jaising, lawyer and…
In his famous essay “On The Ignorance Of The Learned,” the 19th century English essayist, William Hazlitt, was not far wrong in observing that you will hear more good things…
The formal entry of Priyanka Gandhi-Vadra in politics has always been a gleam in the eye of her admirers periodically given to sloganeering, “Priyanka lao desh bachao”. The slogan is…
India’s most revered left-liberal intellectual Ramachandra Guha has recently written in the Hindustan Times – “Why the Narendra Modi government has invested so much political capital in the Citizenship (Amendment)…
Getting personal, taking snarky swipes, hitting its old bugbear, the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS), below the belt is an old Congress disease which has only gotten worse after 2014….
Never before in its checkered 50-year history has there been a more pressing need to clean up or close down an institution of apparent academic excellence than the government funded…
It is unfortunate that the provocative decision of the ruling Marxists in Kerala to pass a resolution in the assembly against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the “rejection” of…
Four days into my first student teaching placement in a second-grade classroom on the Upper East Side was the day the planes hit the towers. In the days and weeks…
All ultra radical, fundamentalist outfits bear a pretence of performing social service and the Popular Front of India (PFI) is by no means an exception, as indeed is Pakistan based…