Sanjay Jha

That is what Oliver taught us. With his gentleness, his energy and goodness, Oliver won over everyone he met. He added his own beauty to a world of tumult, and that beauty was sheer love.

Decades after his assassination, Mahatma Gandhi's memory is under attack again. This time, by a candidate aspiring to be in India's Parliament, no less. Can there be a cause for greater shame?

What is the point of a huge bank balance or a convertible sports car or a celebrity halo, if the heart is not content?

Distinguished members of India Inc. are flustered by NYAY because they feel the scheme is robbing Peter to pay Paul. Given India's backdrop of crony capitalism, NPAs et al, this is richly ironic. And utterly unfeeling.

Majority governments have been the exception, not the norm in India. There are multiple reasons to explain why the Indian voter likes it this way.

The mood after Pulwama should have been measured and sober. Instead, the BJP, led by PM Modi, has thrown mature civility to the winds and indulged in hyper-nationalistic chest-thumping. All this, while ignoring very real issues.

Veteran actor Amol Palekar's speech at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) was cut short for being critical, even if mildly, of the government. This was not the first instance of the suppression of free speech under the Modi sarkaar.

MIG is good economics. And sustainable. It is also extremely timely after the Modi administration under which farmers, youth and the poor, all have faced deep distress.

The veteran actor has simply echoed the suppressed sentiments of millions of people, not just the Muslim minority community. But we live in such a time of fear and loathing that his words have only caused more offence.

Despite being among the world’s fastest growing economies, India is making headlines for cow vigilantism and mob lynchings. Perhaps, as SRK suggests, perfection is elusive.

Political culture is a by-product of leadership.

Unfortunately, numbers don’t lie. That is why the Prime Minister is conspicuously missing.

We live in near-dystopian times, and are perpetually angry.

To understand Mumbai’s pulse, one has to get into a 'kaali-peeli' and make conversations with the driver.

The PM will be lucky to get a 'D-' in managing the economy.

All that the BJP has been trying to do is cleverly camouflage its dismal showing on key macroeconomic factors.

The horrific lynching epidemic that has shamed India is proving to be the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back.

India has nose-dived into a black hole, hurling itself downwards at supersonic speed.

Pseudo-nationalists who had zero contribution in our freedom movement want to appropriate Bharat Mata ki Jai.

Besides the economy, Indian society and democracy are themselves undergoing a stress-test.

Indians will have to make a clear choice between politics of love and the cauldron of hate.

They are living in self-denial, stonewalling reality.

The tone-deafness of the BJP government is ear-splitting.

BJP under Modi has created an environment of political hostility.

The RSS has hit upon a winning formula - push the Hindu Rashtra agenda through its elected political puppet.

Crony capitalists who are large beneficiaries of government charity usually pay back through election funding.

The prime minister is a past master at making outrageous allegations by giving them the requisite melodramatic flavour for hitting the right buttons.

Political hypocrisy has reached epic proportions.

While New Delhi was doing a showstopper-walk at the World Economic Forum, Dharma Patil in Maharashtra killed himself.

Both the Indian PM and US president have made post-truth and alternative facts their core political strategy.