When a win is not a win
Finally, the last ballot has been cast in the 2022 round of assembly elections to five states. Exit…
Amit Shah and the big lies
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.…
“Twas a famous victory”. Wasn’t it?
‘Burn out’ is an actual thing. I learned this the hard way, after writing well over 20,000 words…
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…
A campaign of hate
This morning, I saw a startling thread on my Twitter timeline. Joe Walsh, a Republican candidate for the…
In the beginning was the word…
In early 2009, the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC mounted an exhibition using Nazi propaganda material — posters,…
This is an Emergency
We live at a time when the government, the ruling party, and its adherents have institutionalised, and weaponised,…
Where the ‘truth’ lies
The women protestors of Shaheen Bagh get Rs 500 per day. The rate per protestor is fixed. The…
Scratch pad, Sunday April 7 edition
THE Election Commission of India is an autonomous constitutional authority responsible for administering state and national elections. It…
Some news, some views
HERE is what is known to a fair degree of certainty: For over a year now, the RSS…
