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Politics
Don't Hide Your Communal Prejudice Under the Cloak of Protecting Our Roads
Roads are regularly used for religious and political purposes. It is not about the road here. It is about namaz, and the person offering namaz who is a Muslim.
Politics
When Journalism Becomes the Flagbearer of Hate, Can the Resistance to It Be Anything but Political?
The attempt in some quarters to brush off these questions and frame the INDIA alliance’s boycott of 14 prominent hate-spewing TV anchors as an attack on journalism itself, is nothing but a defence of communalism in the name of defending journalistic principles.
Opinion
Dear Jailer Saheb: A Letter From Ravish Kumar
No prison wall can be so high as to suppress the soaring free voice. Those who seek to shackle the freedom of expression want to turn the entire country into a giant jail.
Top Stories
A Class 12 Student on Lessons He Learnt From the Chapters Cut by CBSE
How will we be able to become the best future citizens we can, if such key topics are removed from the syllabus?
Modi, Shah Have Been Lying About Gandhi. Here's What He Really Said About Minorities.
Gandhi was completely opposed to any suggestion about doubting the nationality of minority Hindus in Pakistan and minority Muslims in India.
Media
'When Media Turns Against the Citizen, Citizens Must Play the Role of the Media'
India’s mainstream media is working night and day to convert our citizens into “post-illiterates”, says Ravish Kumar in his Magsaysay Award acceptance speech.
Media
Today, Freedom From Fear Is Freedom From Mainstream Media
The media has recognised the political supporter as the only kind of viewer there can be.
Politics
Why the Modi Voter Has Fallen Silent
Unlike 2014, there is no dream for the voter's eyes to rest on. He wants to free himself from the clutches of falsehood and propaganda.
Politics
'Fleece India, Flee India' – Has Narendra Modi Launched a New Scheme?
The talk is about sending the Bangladeshis back but the focus seems to be on sending Nitin Sandesara, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi off.
Politics
The NPA Furore Is Like the Hindu-Muslim Debate – It Is Meant to Fool the People
When a ‘strong’ government and political class is unwilling to tell the people the names of the corporate loan defaulters behind the NPA crisis, any debate on it is meaningless.
Politics
Modi ji, Why Don't You Speak About the Falling Rupee and Rising Petrol Price?
Is the prime minister disturbed by the speeches he made in 2013? Or is he busy preparing even better speeches for 2019?
Politics
First We Kill Our Love, Then We Target Someone Else's Love...
Who are the people setting terms and conditions regarding who shall love whom and how is it affecting society; who is being pumped up with hatred and who is planning a kill?
Culture
It's Time for the Middle Class to March Barefoot
The middle class doesn’t have the foggiest idea that it is consigning its vital identity of being ‘the people’ to the ritual flames of evening television day after day.
Government
In Advani's Silence, the Sum of All Fears
He doesn’t chant Modi’s name and there is nobody chanting his name. Why doesn’t he chant Modi’s name if that can help him remain relevant? If his silence signals a personal protest, then why doesn’t he place it on record?
Media
The National Project for Instilling Fear Has Reached Completion
It is only the lapdog media which is safe in India today. Jump into and snuggle down in the lap of authority, strum the tanpura, like Narada did, and chant Narayan Narayan on the TV screen, and nobody will dare say anything to you.
Politics
'Those Who Throw Ink Have Become Party Spokesmen, Those Who Use Ink Are Propagandists'
Ravish Kumar on the dismal state of Indian politics and journalism
