Valson Thampu

History betrays a sense of humour when it makes the weakness of a man mightier than the strength of his adversary.

Like a lot of wonderfully articulate Stephanians, the former CEA seems to think words are a substitute for actions.

What’s in a name? Everything!

In trying to serve the establishment, some priests have shown the church in darkest light. The only silver lining comes from brave nuns and honest parishioners.

The invitation to West Bengal CM could have gone out only after the principal granted permission. If otherwise, the principal needs to state it upfront.

The Congress president has, thanks to the defamation case, entered the theatre of rebellion that Modi has had to vacate.

The author leaves no doubt about his conviction that the Advaitic vision offers the ideal matrix for the unity and integrity of India.

The one thing that he should not have done is to have loaned out himself to this factory of misrepresentation.

The Indian Christian community is at its worst-ever state of spiritual disarray and vulnerability.

Examinations and evaluations conducted by external agencies — our ludicrously glorified education boards — are a slur on education.

The chapel does not matter much to the Christians either in the college or outside.

There is only one reality in the end. We belong together. We are vulnerable. We need each other.

The victims should have known the roads belong to the VVIPs.

From UPA to NDA, the Indian middle class continues to live precariously between mega scams.

When journalists conduct themselves like courtiers, they damn journalism.

To assume that one has to go to a certain location to have a date with God, who is omnipresent, is the choicest superstition imaginable.

Rahul Gandhi would do well to dissociate himself from this video and apologise to the PM.

The more aggressive and irrational, the more reassuring.

The Election Commission needs to address this issue upfront.

The more the BJP ridicules the Congress president-to-be, the more it betrays its anxiety.

It begs the question if issues should be settled on streets and statements made through dead bodies.

The system degrades even the best talent put into it, into an embodiment of mediocrity.

The prospect of gaining electoral profit from this 'gunpowder plot' – with ammunition photo-shopped, or otherwise - is too tempting.

The worst disservice minorities can do to themselves is to shrink into victimhood.

The party's profit and long-term loss is the overpowering oratory of the prime minister.

If it makes a few or many insecure, so be it.

Madhya Pradesh minister who wants students to answer roll call with ‘Jai Hind’ is a brilliant political master.

Education and health must be a monopoly of the State.

The Congress vice-president could have spoken on the killing after the guilty were brought to book.

The State must keep such frauds and freaks on a tight leash.