THE CYNIC

Bilkis Bano could be forced to take the route that Ishrat Jahan’s mother took.

Democracy is safe in Gujarat and by extension in India.

If he is moved out, who would continue with the Gujarat model of information dissemination?

Those who espouse the cause of cleanliness ensure that their faces are plastered across every available inch of space.

The identity of India has become the identity of this one man.

They are killing the India that came into being in 1947. The only India that really matters.

The fact that the ill-fated bus was caught in a crossfire between militants and police has been confirmed by J&K police to local reporters.

Whose alleged idea was it to get the celebrated author in the limelight?

Like any good data entry operator, the scribe is typing out whatever is being fed by the administration.

Hanging these four remorseless dregs of society will serve no purpose other than bringing possible closure and succour to those who knew Jyoti Singh.

Thank you for having taught the country the measure of importance, you are truly the first among unequals.

Everyone's a VIP now, hah!

He has, inadvertently, agreed that the man with the gun has succeeded in spreading terror.

In the name of majority the very concept of India is being confined to parochialism.

Never has there been such an atmosphere of pan-India viciousness with the government of the day itself instigating suspicion.

In an age of Digital India, why not have a digital Parliament, and why not a digital prime minister?

My last evening's worries over what I should do with my single Rs 1,000 note and a couple of 500s got relegated to the background.

Media in India is free and the government in the land is fair and people everywhere are happy and peace reigns across the country.

The Congress again failed to strike the iron while it was hot.

How have we evolved if the lust for blood runs so deep in our own?

Here's a typical message once again doing the rounds, in the name of patriotism, after it was proved a hoax four years ago...

The mantra now is that everything has to be quick fix and catchy.

The barrage across the Ganga in West Bengal caused years of ill will with Bangladesh.

It is not about the land nor is it about the people of that land.

If there is one person who can do this, it is PM Narendra Modi.

What lay hidden in the deepest recesses of society is now out in the open.

Your honour is not so fickle that it can be eroded by some joker.

The Telegraph's headline has sparked off a virulent debate about free speech and civility in journalism.

I tell you that freedom does not mean the freedom to exploit law in order to destroy it!

The poet wrote: 'It is the glimmer of the funeral pyre burning to ashes the vast flesh - the self-love of the nation - dead under its own excess.'