Condemning neutrality is a terrible way to build consensus
If you are active on social media and broadly fall to the right of the Indian ideological spectrum, chances are that recently either you have used or know someone who has used this poem by the late Ramdhari Singh More...
Why I am scared of liberals
Legendary newsman Walter Cronkite once said, “I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being non-doctrinaire, non-dogmatic, non-committed to a cause — but examining each case on its merits.” And More...
Of monuments and memories
A few months back, I visited the War Memorial in Ghorpadi, Pune with my friend, the columnist, Shefali Vaidya. It was a sobering occasion. We were there to pay tribute to the fallen martyrs of Uri and light a candle More...
What stops me from speaking my mind- a common man’s open letter to Rama Guha
Dear Mr Guha, Even though I cannot claim to be your fan, or even someone who follows your writings seriously, I cannot help, but notice some similarities between us. Like you, I too have been a lifelong cricket More...
Amnesty India: Hypocrisy And Tyranny Of The Unelected
In season four, episode 11 of Boston Legal, the brilliant but quirky lawyer Jerry Espenson makes this opening statement arguing on behalf of a woman suing a law firm that encouraged her husband for seeking divorce: “I More...
The Zombie lies of Left-Liberals
In the aftermath of the extremely acrimonious debate over the Obamacare bill in the United States, talk show host Bill Maher coined the term ‘zombie lies’ to denote those points that the Republican party refused More...
Does the Left feel overwhelmed by ‘Buddha in a Traffic Jam’?
In a performance that won him a posthumous Oscar, Peter Finch’s television anchor, Howard Beale, exhorts people to open their windows, lean outside, and scream loudly “I am as mad as hell, and I am not going More...
A Bridge Too Far: Nitish Kumar’s PM Aspirations For 2019
Anyone remotely connected with the marketing of products has heard “sell the sizzle not the steak”. For the uninitiated, it simply means you sell the customers what they want, not what they need. After the general More...
Barkha’s nihilistic cult of biased journalism
Here are the rules to live by as per Barkha- 1) Hindu women concentrating on problems in their own religion is perfectly acceptable. 2) Women from other religions, or agnostic women like Barkha, concentrating on More...
The Arrogance Of The USCIRF
Dear Ms. Katrina Swett Lantos, This is with reference to the remarks made by you and your colleague and the chairman of the United States Commission for International Religious Freedom about Indian government’s More...