THAT Indians can be terribly racist is well known. This attitude is not limited to India; even abroad, Indians display their racism towar...Read More
MANY pundits, gleeful at the humiliation of the Congress, have praised the BJP’s moves. This is one more chance to show how inefficient t...Read More
REGIONALISM is a strong force and this has implications for national parties such as the BJP which wants a footprint all over the country...Read More
TRUMP’S speeches, which talked about Mexicans being rapists and immigrants causing harm to the US have roused racist tendencies among man...Read More
THE ABVP’s sudden clout across campuses is not difficult to understand. In some cases, administrations view them sympathetically and may ...Read More
THE government’s assurances that more trees will be planted is excessively cynical, since any amount of new plantation will take years to...Read More
PART of the reason why people believe in unverified things is confirmation bias. If a bit of ‘news’ feeds into their entrenched prejudice...Read More
While the brave Rajput warriors of the Karni Sena were attacking filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali for shooting a film that could be showin...Read More
All parties and combinations have their own strengths and weaknesses, their own voter bases and also large numbers who will vote strategi...Read More
Is this going to be now a regular affair and will all old names be banished? Intriguingly, many old colonial names are still in use and n...Read More
Even while we cope with the struggle of getting hold of cash so that we can manage our lives and the government exhorts us to move to dig...Read More
Bombay 1992-93. This phrase is etched deeply in the hearts of citizens of Mumbai, especially of those who lived through those times. It’s...Read More
Forget the long lines, forget the stories of distress and even death, forget the complete loss in income and productivity—they are either...Read More
It is well known that the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Mamata Banerjee are political rivals, even sworn enemies in some ways. B...Read More
Predictions have a way of going horribly wrong. As I wrote this in last week’s column, I had crossed my fingers and had hoped that in fac...Read More
There is no saying whether Trump has touched a chord among a sufficiently large number who not only buy his message but are also sufficie...Read More
What should have been a straightforward military matter and should have been seen as a strong response from India, has now become a conte...Read More
Every Sunday and public holiday, large crowds converge all over the tourist sites of Mumbai, the most popular of them being the Gateway o...Read More
We are not a society that wholeheartedly believes in rational ideas. A personal belief is, to some extent, excusable. When it becomes ins...Read More
Why does the state government need another security law? And, given that there are many central laws in place, should the state governmen...Read More