Why people should lambast Penguin and not Dinanath Batra for asking for Wendy Doniger’s book to be banned.
Victimhood is a shop round the corner and I want my daily bread.
There are many stories associated with Henry Ford, the inventor of the assembly-line, and one such merits retelling.
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Why you should watch 12 Years A Slave and Django Unchained back-to-back.
What would have happened if Arnab Goswami had asked Rahul Gandhi the questions he should have asked.
Is the Aam Aadmi Party a colony of Mobile Republics?
“I am an Anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule, and also ruled I will not be!”
– John Mackay
Ever since Arundhati Roy famously declared herself to be a Mobile Republic, I have wished to know what it’d be like to be one.
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Are molecular biology and medicine borrowing from children’s imaginations to cure debilitating diseases?
Newslaundry founders & employees in Tihar? Do you want to free them?
Is this what Aakar Patel doddles during edit meetings at the PMO?
Hello, dear readers! Your uncle Rangarajan this side of the digital divide. Normally I wouldn’t hesitate to offer you my jasmine-scented greetings but what to do? The omnipotent Balaji knows I am helpless.
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Why Modi and BJP are a thinking Indian’s challenge.
Editor’s note: There’s a mystery to this article, so be sure to read till the end.
Narendra Modi is a man before his time. A couple of decades along, too late for him, there will be a bigger constituency in India for the anti-Muslim demagogue.
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Why Modi and BJP are a thinking Indian’s challenge.
All the 158 sentences – their every word, every punctuation – that make up the article: Modi Magic?, belong solely to Mr Aakar Patel. They have been employed verbatim after screening 79 of his articles.
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How Indira Gandhi started a trend by overturning the most inconvenient Supreme Court judgment of them all.
Jeeps are magical. Marvels of minimalism. The rough bumpy ride, the defiant thrumming, the toppled windshield, flapping canvas, sloshing jerry cans, wind in the hair, dust in the eyes, smouldering cheroot, Lawrence of Arabia, Clint Eastwood, James Dean, Yashpal Kapur…
Yashpal who?
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A lot of war analogies have been used to describe demonetisation. Here’s why it’s a failed campaign.
This is the second part of the five-part series on demonetisation.
Why do governments fail? Why are they blind? Or inefficient? It is because they are run by politicians, and politicians are corrupt.
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How much money do we need? Do we need money at all? Vivek Kaul’s Easy Money answers these questions & more.
Is The Hindu really breaking from tradition by bringing control of the paper back into the family fold?
“With The Hindu’s owners deciding to revert to being a family run and edited newspaper, I am resigning from The Hindu with immediate effect.”
– @svaradarajan, Oct 21, 2013
The recent Twitter resignation of Siddharth Varadarajan, editor of The Hindu, elicited passionate responses of more than 140 characters, most of them loose and many of them belonging to the extended Hindu family.
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Sanjay Jha, Rahul Pandita and Madhu Trehan play “Guess Who”.
Is AAP a Socialist party? Did Barkha Singh send goons to beat up Shazia?
Would the Vuvuzela – and not the Jhadoo – have been a better symbol for Arvind Kejriwal’s party?
Converting the natives with Aadharism. In Nandan they have a messiah.
Are Indian journalists too star-struck to ask the tough questions?
Why do our politicians overturn so many of our Supreme Court’s verdicts – out of public interest or self-interest?
