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.
...Full StoryThe US ‘condemning’ Pulwama is not enough. Given a range of complex new threats, India needs to keep its eyes, and its options, open.
...Full StoryThe '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.
...Full StoryThe writer as a public figure is now seen as a performer for the crowds.
...Full StoryLiterature has never been only about getting to your destination.
...Full StoryOne of the worst crimes parents are capable of is depriving their little ones of their inherent sense of excitement at being alive.
...Full StoryOur authorities need to select sports and games in which money can go a long way.
...Full StoryIn '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.
...Full StoryIf The Supreme is needed to be 'justified' in literature, it could also critique, deny and even replace Him.
...Full StoryThe ideologues of today cannot even come close to matching the Mahatma's humanity, political foresight and moral courage.
...Full StoryIt isn't good news for a country when fear and ignorance are combined to decide its future.
...Full StoryIf the US Republican president front runner wants us to take his concern seriously, he has to do more than blame 'radical Islam'.
...Full StoryCalling the Mughal emperor an 'outsider' sends out a hidden signal.
...Full StorySome inconsistencies in the behaviour of the American voter almost make me like him.
...Full StoryOne is elected for their trustworthiness, not competency.
...Full StoryIt 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.
...Full StoryLawmakers and politicians have knowingly allowed the very rich to get away with hiding their wealth and evading taxes.
...Full StoryEvery religious Muslim has to ponder over this.
...Full StoryThe number of copies sold is no reason to call a novel 'pulp' or 'literary'.
...Full StoryThey need to show a lot more maturity.
...Full StoryThe only way to create a just society is to strengthen the hands of the law, not to take the law into your hands.
...Full StoryThe problem with empty, raucous electioneering is that it prevents a conversation from taking place.
...Full StoryWe first create strangers by language. The body of this stranger is controlled, regulated or eliminated.
...Full StoryThis is not a 'bestsellers' list.
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