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...

Pehlu Khan, a cow-smuggler: Indian Express, enough is enough

Indian Express can’t expect its readers—and I am one—to be polite any longer. The newspaper is telling lies, promoting communal divide and Hinduphobia...

Manmohan Singh and the winter of public life

The winter of public life is setting upon Dr. Manmohan Singh.  By all accounts, it is doing no good to his feeble frame. Or self-esteem, never mind it wasn’t...

Guess who supported the Emergency? Commies, of course

Every anniversary of Emergency in India (June 25, 1975) and worn-out clichés on muzzling media, despotic Indira, state repression and the complicity of judiciary...

Akademi stands up to Vijayan’s govt. in Kerala

No praise is too high for Kerala Lalithakala Akademi for standing up to the repressive move of Pinaryi Vijayan’s Left government in Kerala and refusing to withdraw...

For god’s sake, stop this my Twinkle and your Asifa nonsense

Some crimes shake the conscience of the nation: Like the one of Twinkle in Aligarh. Or Asifa in Kathua, Jammu.

No Hindi-must in New Education Policy: But try telling it to DMK

Nobody is imposing Hindi anywhere. Two Union Ministers, both of Tamil origin—Nirmala Sitharaman and Subrhmanyam Jaishankar—have clarified so in...