The question also arises as to why the corporate class, barring an exception or two, is so silent in the face of rising vigilantism
If moral teaching is to be part of a school curriculum in a multi-religious polity like our republic, there should be no argument against including moral insights from all our religions
The party needs to find a new consensus to forge its way ahead, and this consensus has to involve even ordinary party workers
Arvind Kejriwal’s success in Punjab cannot be replicated in Uttar Pradesh or Bihar
Then there are times When thoughts find no words
“Great communicators” of the current parlance seek to rob us of our cognitive faculties; but communicators who contribute to lasting ethical and intellectual values seek to do the opposite
In a world of flint-like certitudes Nothing in the eyes gives
There was the bicycle before there was the auto. And there was the bicycle before there was “terrorism”. Yet now, if some lunatic carries a bomb on a bicycle, the bicycle becomes a terrorist
In what could only be the result of sinister conspiracy, Singapore’s PM suggested that Narendra Modi has made things worse in ‘new India’
What irony that those who appropriated a natural biological fact to argue for faith in denying entry to women into the Sabarimala shrine should be unable to support young Muslim women for whom wearing the head scarf is equally an article of faith
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