Tabish Khair

Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, you all are prisoners of your own beautiful narratives, your perceptions of your perfection. This is harming you. And us. We need to look away.

The US ‘condemning’ Pulwama is not enough. Given a range of complex new threats, India needs to keep its eyes, and its options, open.

The 'cowboy of industrial capitalism', coal evokes a time when workers actually mattered. But for all of Trump's promises on bringing back those days, he has only helped finance capitalism get stronger.

The writer as a public figure is now seen as a performer for the crowds.

Literature has never been only about getting to your destination.

One of the worst crimes parents are capable of is depriving their little ones of their inherent sense of excitement at being alive.

Our authorities need to select sports and games in which money can go a long way.

In 'The Gene: An Intimate History', the Pulitzer-winning author traces the tale of the gene from an obscure abbey in Moravia in 1856 to the present times.

If The Supreme is needed to be 'justified' in literature, it could also critique, deny and even replace Him.

The ideologues of today cannot even come close to matching the Mahatma's humanity, political foresight and moral courage.

It isn't good news for a country when fear and ignorance are combined to decide its future.

If the US Republican president front runner wants us to take his concern seriously, he has to do more than blame 'radical Islam'.

Calling the Mughal emperor an 'outsider' sends out a hidden signal.

Some inconsistencies in the behaviour of the American voter almost make me like him.

One is elected for their trustworthiness, not competency.

It is her own decision whether she wants to smoke or not, wear a sari or a skirt, go to a bar or stay in the kitchen.

Lawmakers and politicians have knowingly allowed the very rich to get away with hiding their wealth and evading taxes.

Every religious Muslim has to ponder over this.

The number of copies sold is no reason to call a novel 'pulp' or 'literary'.

They need to show a lot more maturity.

The only way to create a just society is to strengthen the hands of the law, not to take the law into your hands.

The problem with empty, raucous electioneering is that it prevents a conversation from taking place.

We first create strangers by language. The body of this stranger is controlled, regulated or eliminated.

This is not a 'bestsellers' list.