The dog and pony show
On the forgotten soldiers of Kashmir and why patriotism is the last refuge of the demagogue.
Amit Shah and the big lies
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.…
The evil that men do…
On January 6, the day after a masked, armed mob ran riot in the JNU campus while its…
Republic of Spin
“The Titanic had an iceberg problem. It did not have a communications problem.” I was reminded of that…
Scratchpad: April 12 edition
Round one of voting, covering 91 Lok Sabha seats, is over. Last evening, TV channels struggled, on prime…
Scratchpad: April 9 edition
FLASHBACK to Adityanath’s recent speech wherein he spoke of Modiji ki sena, directly contravening an Election Commission directive…
News, views: April 8 edition
Kalpana Sharma, readers’ editor of Scroll.in, asks the media to go beyond the usual ‘Who will you vote…
…and the clocks were striking thirteen.
There are times when I suspect that more people cite Orwell than have actually read Orwell. (One of…
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…
