Republic of Spin
Spin — the massaging of facts to make them palatable or, as someone once put it, “the artistic…
The state versus the students
December 15, 2019: Police — many of them masked — entered the Old Reading Hall on the first…
Cry me a river
In a previous post I wrote of Hitler, of fascism, of the means to the murderous end that…
A thought for our times
This morning, the first thing I did (after making myself a cup of coffee) was to put on…
This is an Emergency
We live at a time when the government, the ruling party, and its adherents have institutionalised, and weaponised,…
Fascism in the works
The Auschwitz Memorial twitter handle last evening posted two images, taken less than 12 years apart: One of…
Bad news
Everyone: There’s so much anger and helplessness flooding my thoughts, I worry that soon there won’t be any room…
Ghar mein ghuske…
THE Caravan’s story on the BS Yedyurappa diaries, the full version of which is here outside the paywall,…
The U-turn sarkar
May 25, 2014: The then Delhi BJP chief Harsh Vardhan says that the first issue he will take up with…
Kerala, redux
The calls from Kerala where I have family, and friends on various sides of the political spectrum, were…
