His most tenuous stance is how all types of obscurantism, traditionalism and revivalism can be confronted by liberal democracy.
...Full StoryIs there really a Left version of 'hopes' and 'promises' in today's neo-liberal India?
...Full StoryCelebration brings people together. Asking questions divides people.
...Full Story'Who is a Hindu' is a question best kept unaddressed in everybody's interest.
...Full StoryThe movie doesn't find faults with regressive rituals, it focuses on who performs them.
...Full StoryIt celebrates mediocrity and compromises the overall standards of higher education.
...Full StoryWhere we as the privileged lot are heading is even more tragic.
...Full StoryThe film makes us ponder over issues that seldom bother our quotidian lives.
...Full StoryAs William Faulkner would say, 'The past is never dead. It's not even past.'
...Full StoryThe Brazilian forward, after coming to Barcelona, has certainly proved himself to be one of the best in the business.
...Full StoryPMO's advice to include elements of military schools in regular schools should be seen in the context of Sangh Parivar's obnoxious attraction for a virile Hindudom.
...Full StoryWith great victory comes great responsibility.
...Full StoryInherent prejudice about Muslims gets in the way of caricaturing a leader who speaks for them.
...Full StoryFIFA's chief technical development officer has proposed an audacious set of rules in a bid to revolutionise the beautiful game.
...Full StoryWe are going to hand down a mix of ambiguity and absolute trash to the future generation.
...Full StorySadly, it's not the girls who win in the end.
...Full StoryIf it is a drive against neo-liberalism, how does he justify Digital India, cashless economy?
...Full StorySimply singing in chorus doesn't generate the feeling of being part of a collective.
...Full StoryMiserable time to live in when 'excellence', along with narcissistic indifference rules the world.
...Full StoryIs the urban, well-educated, formal-sector-job person really capable of understanding the ramifications of losing even one day of mazdoori?
...Full StoryDo we really have a robust banking network spread inclusively in all parts of India as our finance minister claims?
...Full StoryBJP's manifesto of 1996 was quick to laud the apex court verdict by misleadingly glorifying Hindutva as being in perfect sync and consonance with secularism.
...Full StoryMerely saying you are patriotic is not enough in such situations.
...Full StoryMoral development? Sarvodaya? Non-violence?
...Full StoryThe syndrome has gripped all dominant castes like the Jats, Patidars, Reddys and now the Marathas.
...Full StoryViolence and mass disturbance are increasingly channelised through non-institutional means.
...Full StoryToeing the line of the establishment is what the nexus between the government and the Mukesh Ambani-led company is all about.
...Full StorySuicides are bundled out to entirely being an outcome of 'retrograde' practices, unhinged by economic aspects.
...Full StoryIt sells a concept couched in the deceptive language of upholding Swadeshi.
...Full StoryBoth have different professions but their work ethic converges on the common vision of a liberal, egalitarian India.
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