Suraj Kumar Thube

His most tenuous stance is how all types of obscurantism, traditionalism and revivalism can be confronted by liberal democracy.

Is there really a Left version of 'hopes' and 'promises' in today's neo-liberal India?

Celebration brings people together. Asking questions divides people.

'Who is a Hindu' is a question best kept unaddressed in everybody's interest.

The movie doesn't find faults with regressive rituals, it focuses on who performs them.

It celebrates mediocrity and compromises the overall standards of higher education.

Where we as the privileged lot are heading is even more tragic.

The film makes us ponder over issues that seldom bother our quotidian lives.

As William Faulkner would say, 'The past is never dead. It's not even past.'

The Brazilian forward, after coming to Barcelona, has certainly proved himself to be one of the best in the business.

PMO'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.

With great victory comes great responsibility.

Inherent prejudice about Muslims gets in the way of caricaturing a leader who speaks for them.

FIFA's chief technical development officer has proposed an audacious set of rules in a bid to revolutionise the beautiful game.

We are going to hand down a mix of ambiguity and absolute trash to the future generation.

Sadly, it's not the girls who win in the end.

If it is a drive against neo-liberalism, how does he justify Digital India, cashless economy?

Simply singing in chorus doesn't generate the feeling of being part of a collective.

Miserable time to live in when 'excellence', along with narcissistic indifference rules the world.

Is the urban, well-educated, formal-sector-job person really capable of understanding the ramifications of losing even one day of mazdoori?

Do we really have a robust banking network spread inclusively in all parts of India as our finance minister claims?

BJP'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.

Merely saying you are patriotic is not enough in such situations.

Moral development? Sarvodaya? Non-violence?

The syndrome has gripped all dominant castes like the Jats, Patidars, Reddys and now the Marathas.

Violence and mass disturbance are increasingly channelised through non-institutional means.

Toeing the line of the establishment is what the nexus between the government and the Mukesh Ambani-led company is all about.

Suicides are bundled out to entirely being an outcome of 'retrograde' practices, unhinged by economic aspects.

It sells a concept couched in the deceptive language of upholding Swadeshi.

Both have different professions but their work ethic converges on the common vision of a liberal, egalitarian India.