This year’s Deepavali was chequered, Except you know where— Along the banks of a sacred river. Whether the god descended or…
More things are wrought by prayer than by politics, especially of the pernicious democratic variety
Now we are to tell this Court How the deal was made, How the price was computed, How Anil Ji made the…
The Doval doctrine now has a political dimension and the nation had better be grateful for it
A strong democratic state Must learn from the sultanate; It better know who does what At any hour of day and night.…
The movement, much like a genie, is now squarely out of the bottle and slated to drive other progressive movements across the polity, as well as cumulatively oblige the State to yield space to more assertively democratic forms of social life, coterminous with more responsive State initiatives, willy-nilly
Capital reigns, turning hearts to baubles, Souls are freshly baptized in the purse; Lords of Capital allow all things But prying human…
What is it about menstruating women that obliges those who oversee the daily ablutions of the deity to keep them out of sight?
Internal documents are disloyal things, They spill the crony beans; Macron must these documents burn For more morsels of our means. …
What Would Gandhi Have Thought of This Festival of Hypocrisy?
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