US riots have all but secured Donald Trump’s re-election

If riots are the moment which sank the bobbing mass, be fairly sure that Donald Trump would not only float but sail to the promised land of US re-election this November. ...

Modi is India’s greatest prime minister by a distance—here’s why

The very headline demands a comparison. Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru had his own view of India, not the one he shared with his mentor Mahatma Gandhi. Views on science was one...

State and Indian media: The gloves are off; Where are the arbiters?

I am in the middle of writing a book on World History where I show strands vastly different to the narrative we have been fed through newspapers and academia. My compass...

Anniversary of Kashmiri Pandits’ exodus: Jagmohan’s bitter words to Rajiv Gandhi

You have virtually forced me to write this open letter to you. For, all along, I have persistently tried to keep myself away from party politics and to use whatever...

BJP are Nazis? It’s time to embarrass and expose you Mr. Kashyap

I would give credit to Anurag Kashyap for where he is a today. A small-town boy, an outsider to Bollywood, who has carved a niche for himself without quite directing a...

Now Congress has no problem with Shiv Sena which calls Godse a “patriot”

How difficult it is to visualize that tens of thousands of Mumbaikars are staying put in front of Matoshree and asking its most famous resident, Uddhav Thackeray, how...

New India beefs up Mahatma Gandhi in a formidable armour

India is abuzz with Mahatma Gandhi in the year of his 150th birth anniversary but there is a new version to his message of “ahimsa” (non-violence) which...