The Election Commission’s contention that assembly polls cannot be held simultaneously due to security issues does not have much traction. What then are the reasons for the deferral?

Natonalisms flourish only when those who have been designated enemies remain steadfast in their assigned entity.
God forbid, should they begin to mend their ways, hyper-nationalism can be suddenly left without recourse, or face the risk of being found out

Their’s was the first Woodstock Wedding, full of drugs and abandon, Where snakes and saints participated With equal zest. Middle class gods…

While the ruling party thinks nothing of milking a national security situation for electoral purposes, it expects all opposition political forces to desist from “doing politics”

There is a rather thoughtless middle-class view that a scam is not a scam until there is a money trail that leads…

The pity is that the promise of the hug made from the Red Fort may have turned not just into another cruel joke, but into a deepened nightmare

Madness is a topic much discussed From ancient times to ours; Now a crime, now disease, Now an affliction of lovers. …

This amendment comprised the most brazen declaration yet of the coveted assertion that India is a Hindu nation

They die for their cause, We die for ours; Our deaths are propitiated Like those of star-crossed lovers. They kill us,…

Often those who pontificate most vigorously about the desirability of selfless action without thought to the fruits of action seem most contentiously, indeed often violently, to be after the fruit rather than the selflessness