Karan Thapar ‘s Coke-crazed advice to Narendra Modi
On 27 September, eminent journalist and anchor Karan Thapar penned an op-ed in the Hindustan Times where he slyly proclaimed to offer a ‘bit of gratuitous but well-meant advice’ to Prime Minister Narendra Modi More...
Lessons for Comrade Yechury
An op-ed penned by CPM’s Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury which appeared in the Hindustan Times on September 23 2014 echoes the same allegation mentioned in a previous report also from the Hindustan Times– that More...
Ahmed Hassan Imran poses a threat to national security
On 19 January 2014, Ahmed Hassan Imran was nominated to the Upper House of the Parliament by Trinamul Congress (TMC). This is the same Imran who had an important role to play in the communal carnage that plagued More...
Hindustan Times’ Incomplete Report on the RSS
On 22 September 2014, this report from Hindustan Times speaks of the RSS’s new found agenda of absorbing Dalits into the larger Hindu fold by rewriting history. The report goes on to mention how following the More...
Will Rahul Gandhi make the Congress irrelevant?
Dissent is the hallmark of democracy, as long as it is not directed at the Congress party. The catastrophe faced by the Congress in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections finally woke up the senior leaders from their slumber. More...
Sagarika Ghose must go to school
On 17 September, 2014 in an op-ed on Times of India titled ‘Rename secularism. Call it ‘dharma’ or righteous administration,’ senior columnist and former news anchor Sagarika Ghose claimed among other things: Secularism More...
Nothing to celebrate about Periyar
Today is the 135th birth anniversary of Erode Venkata Ramaswamy Naicker, or as he is affectionately called Periyar (the Great Man). In the birth anniversaries of great men who are no longer with us, it is the More...
Remembering Sharatbabu
We are often disheartened to hear news of abject poverty, mistreatment of women, as well as social injustice flashed around in newspapers. These kinds of news give rise to the question: which way this nation is More...
Stalin’s Apologetic Atheism
On 31 August there was a buzz on social media as DMK leader M.K. Stalin was damned by his supporters for allegedly greeting people on the Ganesh Chaturthi via his social media accounts. Stalin’s party rushed to More...
Mahatma Ayyankali—A brief profile
On 8 September 2014, a historic moment was witnessed as for the first time, the celebrations of Dalit icon Mahatma Ayyankali’s birth anniversary was attended by the Prime Minister of India.Mahatma Ayyankali was More...