Decoding the Aam Aadmi Party

By any reckoning, Arvind Kejriwal’s rise is astounding. One year in politics, and he is chief minister of the Delhi state. As I mentioned in an earlier article, he has blasted many a myth about Indian politics More...

Indian Intelligentsia’s war against commonsense

With the liberal-secular establishment busy trying to prove that the Modi factor was not at work in the recent state elections, a couple of facts have largely gone unnoticed. First, measures like populist schemes, More...

 Tehelka is the UPA of media

The relationship between Tehelka and the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was more than symbiotic. Of course, both benefited each other; both are Left-leaning; but the hallmark and the conspicuous More...

If you ain’t a Left-libber, you ain’t human

Poet and secularist par excellence Javed Akhtar was hauled over the coals by Twitterati for his comment on former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal which was seen as supporting the beleaguered editor. But More...

Sanctimony, Hubris and Downfall

Tehelka magazine editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) boss Arvind Kejriwal were the self-appointed guardians of morality. In the reckoning of their supporters, they were the conscience of the More...