If India Burns (Part II): No longer a question now that Nadda has thrown down the gauntlet

This glimmer of hope which I mentioned in the first piece has been offered by JP Nadda, Bharatiya Janata Party president, who has announced in Bengal that...

India’s police and the manufacturing of a storm

We don’t trust our police. Most would say they are brutal and corrupt.  There is nothing new here. You talk to your parents and grandma. It would be no...

US riots: Modi should watch out for a repeat post Covid-19

The riots in United States have spread across the nation. From Minneapolis to Dallas, Los Angeles to Atlanta, New York to Portland, 40 cities are under curfew. National...

Indians can’t desert Modi and leave him at the mercy of sharks

All of us would agree that public transport should’ve been allowed to let migrants reach home. Done and dusted in the first week of Lockdown 1.0...

Would Indian Express not mind a communal flare-up?

 On a day when every mainstream national daily has lauded the message of “peace and brotherhood” in the Shoba Yatra at Hauz Qazi to douse communal...

The future headlines which await you!

One of the charms of the future is its powerful element of unpredictability, its ability to ambush us in lovely ways or bite us unexpectedly in the ass. Most of the futures I...

Does Europe have a future?

Europe has no future. Yes, it rises like a phoenix. But before that, it routinely self destructs itself.