Cry me a river
In a previous post I wrote of Hitler, of fascism, of the means to the murderous end that…
Lies, damned lies, and then there’s the BJP…
This story opens with the line “The Shaheen Bagh shooter Kapil Gujjar admitted to the Delhi Police that…
People versus the State
Earlier today there was a hearing at the Tis Hazari court in Delhi, where Judge Kamini Lau sat…
Odds and trends: March 21 edition
RAVISH Kumar of NDTV reports that Modi’s “massive outreach” to chowkidars via an audio bridge (the point of…
Yeh lo ji, 2G
FIVE years ago, the 2G scam was the centrepiece of the Modi-led BJP’s relentless campaign against the Congress…
WTF Just Happened: December 24
#1. In Uttar Pradesh, the always-innovative Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath — who, last month, came up with the…
Another day, another balloon goes pffft
The Adarsh Housing Society scam first hit the headlines in 2010. Eight years later, today, the Bombay High…
1.76 lakh crore and other fictions
For those interested, here is the full text of the CBI special court’s judgment in the case of…
Amusing ourselves to death
For the two weeks that I have been away, I lived a pre-internet life. I consumed “news”, such…
Oops!
It is not that the Delhi High Court dismissed Subramanian Swamy’s PIL seeking a court-monitored SIT investigation into…
