The writer is a Middle East based columnist.
When the history of these extraordinary times is written, the BJP may go down as a ‘great leveller.’ It has succeeded in razing to the ground...
The writer is an independent writer and former editor.Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages, said Spiro Agnew. I wonder what...
Amid this deepening darkness of all-round doom and gloom, there is a ray of hope at last. The raging global pandemic of the coronavirus has killed...
A Hindu friend of mine refers to India’s ruling party as the Bharat Jalao Party . Every time he says it, he says it with greater conviction....
The sale of George Orwell’s dystopian novel, ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, has reportedly surged 10,000 times since a New York property developer...
So the aam aadmi’s ‘jharu’ has swept away the toxic garbage that the BJP had flooded the national capital of Delhi with.The credit for the...
Justice Markandey Katju is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. Long before he retired in 2011, he had been known for both his outspoken...
Narendra Modi is in a league of his own. He swept back into power in May 2019, defying disasters like demonetisation, GST, unemployment and agrarian...
I have never felt so proud of my country in a long, long time. Led mostly by students and the youth, Indians are marching in their millions across...
“Where do we go from here?” asked a US-based Indian Muslim friend the morning after India lurched further to the right with the smooth passage...
Can a leopard change its spots? Can the saffron clan led by the RSS and BJP ever give up its core philosophy and agenda that is founded on a...
If the bizarre Ayodhya verdict of India’s Supreme Court is a classic case of adding insult to injury, on the one hand, it marks the final and...
Thanks to my solitary existence, I end up spending hours watching television. I keep telling myself to do something useful and worthwhile like read...
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a young and upcoming American writer and author of the bestselling novel, ‘The Sympathizer’. He landed in the ‘land of...
Whatever you may think of the BJP and its extended Parivar, they have a sordid sense of humour. At a time when India and the world are celebrating...
Indian Muslims fell out of love with the Congress Party, long before Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in his infinite wisdom decided to unlock the doors...
Salman Khurshid is a man of few words. On rare occasions when he speaks his mind, he weighs his words carefully like the seasoned and successful...
Nothing is so prized in politics as a short public memory. As India and the world mark the 150th birth anniversary of Gandhi, and world leaders ply...
The Indian judiciary, once known for its independence and integrity, had been the last hope of the dispossessed. Where do they turn for justice if...
The ghosts of Ayodhya just refuse to go away. They have been kept around, and busy, with great effort and ingenuity. The tragedy has remained as...
