Lie down on the couch, the nation will hear you out.
...Full StoryThis is the same party that has, over the years, put us to sleep with its mindless drone about minority appeasement.
...Full StoryEven a hare-brained swamy would have known instinctively what was coming Ram Rahim's way.
...Full StoryThese very saffron forces are trying to dwarf PM's development agenda.
...Full StoryA satire in an hour of tragedy.
...Full StoryThe BJP does not tire of bragging that it is a party with a difference but in reality it is stuck in the same rut.
...Full StoryRather than taking inspiration from myriad sources to build a mosaic of pan-India identity, we are caught in a maze of saffron.
...Full StoryThe BJP won't let the former president of India rest in peace.
...Full StoryOr are we ready for a game of strategic patience with the Chinese? A protracted standoff that could drag on for months, if not years.
...Full StoryWith the PM's own magic on the wane, the BJP cannot depend on only him to deliver the goodies.
...Full StorySurely, your job is not to provide just comic relief to a nation.
...Full StoryPay GST, listen to jumlas, lynch a person every now and then to relieve our monotony, mention the cow in morning prayers, and let the Army do it's job.
...Full StoryIndira Gandhi had managed to secure Sikkim's 'merger' as China watched from the sidelines.
...Full StoryNor does he mind that the government is losing its poise and sense of equilibrium.
...Full StoryAs a practising politician he is expected to understand that no nation can live on hubris alone; nor can subsist on a staple diet of rhetoric, bluster and half-truths.
...Full StoryOften, by time the PM gets his voice back, the cycle of violence has spiralled out of control and innocents have been maimed.
...Full StoryThis is a piece of fiction but I deserve no mercy. We are all guilty by association.
...Full StoryWe have allowed the political blather and grandstanding to become a substitute for actual governance.
...Full StoryWhile the PM lost a chance to liberate himself from the optics of Hindutva, having a Dalit head of State will also not change the community’s dystopian reality.
...Full StoryThanks to jingoists, patriotism hangs by a slender thread these days.
...Full StoryWho is running this country? What happened to our mandate?
...Full StoryThe recent strike is IS's desperate bid to widen the ambit of the sectarian battle.
...Full StoryIn geopolitics, the golden rule is - tip-toe, if you feel the urge to run.
...Full StoryThe incorrigible president could not resist taking potshots and pointing out that India and China have worse emission records.
...Full StoryA pea-brained, cock-eyed, 'legally' possible reality of India.
...Full StoryIt is the coming of age of the silent majority.
...Full StoryIt takes more than a 56-inch chest to take the peace process forward; and it takes less courage to carry out a surgical strike.
...Full StorySome political ingenuity can surely help.
...Full StorySo, this is the great Modi vision - one nation, one language, one anthem, one diet, one civil law and, of course, one animal!
...Full StoryHe can abandon his ideological baggage and go down in history as the man who had an instinctive feel for the pulse of the nation.
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