Trump’s resounding mandate is absolute validation that racism is alive and kicking in America.

Celebrities have the clout to pressure the governing class to realign policies for the common good, but tragically, most celebrities are all glitz and no substance.

For the first time ever, a train service — the Namo Bharat — has been named after a prime minister and that too a serving prime minister — the most egregious example of self-glorification.

There is no doubt that the trappings of democracy are back. But the basic practices engendered by our new-found freedom aren't what democracy is all about – they only provide the preliminary groundwork for the more difficult tasks ahead.

To use a computer analogy, the mainstream corporate media served as the mainframe of Modi’s tyranny, manufacturing and processing fake news and hateful propaganda that appealed to the darkest instincts in the human mind.

Cutting Modi down to size is imperative, but much more vital for restoring the country’s sanity and health is the obligation to call out the dangerous Hindutva ideology and its practitioners.

What really matters is the sportspersons’ contribution to making the world a better place by mobilising their enormous social power for advancing the cause of social justice.

At this critical time, two institutions charged with protecting the Constitution, namely the judiciary and the bureaucracy, have a crucial role to play for restoring the nuts and bolts of our democracy.

In the last ten years, we have been witness to the unspeakable inhumanity and brutality of this regime, orchestrated by one man.

The most oppressed victim of our sordid colourism is the Indian girl who is dark-skinned. In a vexatious – nay, sick – social setting that regards fair skin as an essential ingredient of physical beauty, the dark girl’s life is hell.

Mahatma Gandhi taught us the power of love, but Modi has shown how much more potent hate is.

My generation of midnight’s children were brought up on the drivel that we are a tolerant, caring people, but that’s a myth and a delusion that have been truly “interred with their bones” in the last decade.

It is a moral obligation for all who care for the country and its values of tolerance, equality and justice to rise above self-interest and bring back democracy and decency to our polity.

Today’s civil servants are openly subverting established systems to please their political masters.

Today’s civil servants are openly subverting established systems to please their political masters.

Despite the railways minister harping on about how the Indian Railways have been transformed, the government has instead undone systems and structures in the railways that were developed and nurtured over the decades.

What we are witnessing today is no ordinary case of a leader in an exalted state of self-love or self-absorption. Equally unhinged is the ignoble servitude of the millions of devotees in the country who have come under the spell of this consummate artist.

The collective hullaballoo over the consecration of the Ram temple under the aegis of the Modi government represents the triumph of religious fundamentalism over secularism.

Our world is being ruined by malevolent old politicians who preach high principle but act dishonourably.

The doctrine of Hindu exclusiveness has stimulated a second partition of the country, albeit metaphorical in the sense that it is not a physical territorial split but a schismatic division of minds based on religion.