Next time you quote them on Dalits, put them to this neutrality test

There is little gain-saying that Dalits have not suffered in India. They have been raped, murdered, discriminated against, distanced from wells and temples and...

Who’s afraid of “Lobby of Six”? questions Gogoi; Puts nation on alert

It’s the last time readers you would hear about it. So I want you to be serious. Ranjan Gogoi, former Chief Justice of India and now a member of the Rajya Sabha,...

Justice Gogoi, the plot and the things you don’t know

I will try to attempt what you know and what you don’t know.

The saga of Kumaraswamy keeps Congress out of “mahagathbandhan”

Most prospective allies dread Congress as a partner in the approaching 2019 General Elections. They know of the mauling of HD Kumaraswamy (JDS) by its partner Congress in Karnataka...

Wish Barkha Dutt had spoken to my “piddi”

A righteous Barkha Dutt was ecstatic. An act of new Congress government in Rajasthan made her tweet pompously (see image): “In a deeply unequal country, education is a...

Hindus first lose lives; and then the narrative

Every Independence Day fills me with sadness and anger. For the day next is August 16, albeit of 1946, when the Muslim League government of the day in undivided Bengal provoked...

What Pranab da wanted us to pay heed to on Hedgewar

When former President Pranab Mukherjee visited Keshav Baliram Hedgewar birthplace in Nagpur on Thursday, he must have known better than the lies of TheWire that the founder of the...