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Harish KhareThe Wire |
Listen to this article: Anyone wanting to make sense of the senseless police brutality on the students protest march to parliament on Monday (July 20)...
Listen to this article: Fans of Sherlock Holmes will remember the question the great detective once asked: Why did the dog not bark? A slight...
Listen to this article: Ever since 2014, when the blissful era of Amrit Kaal began, it is said that the nation has been spared the shame and disgrace...
Listen to this article: In his 2009 book, The Caged Phoenix – Can India Fly? Dipankar Gupta, the highly respected sociologist, had observed, with...
Listen to this article: The news item was tucked away on page 17 of the Delhi edition of the Sunday Times of India on June 14. According to it, the...
Listen to this article: There was a certain incongruity to Kumar Mangalam Birla’s appearance last week at an RSS event, that too in the company of...
Listen to this article: Preparations are afoot for a fortnight-long orgy of self-praise, self-congratulations and a heavy doze of boasting as Narendra...
Listen to this article: “We borrowed money by mortgaging valuables and taking loans from moneylenders at high interest. If we are unable to sell our...
Listen to this article: It is a matter of considerable satisfaction that the Chief Justice of India has clarified that he had been misunderstood and...
Listen to this article: Rahul Gandhi, for once, has hit the nail on the head: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is no longer capable of running the...
Listen to this article: No two ways about it: only a particularly saffron-tinted strain of intellectual dishonesty can deny that the BJP’s victory...
Listen to this article: When I first learnt that you had parted company with Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and had joined Amit Shah’s...
Listen to this article: Only a regime hopelessly besotted with its own cleverness could think of seeking passage of a constitutional amendment Bill,...
Listen to this article: Though denounced by many historians as a war-criminal during his eight years as President Richard Nixon and President Gerald...
Listen to this article: Monday’s newspapers presented the readers two snapshots – one from Patna, and other from Ahmedabad – of Old India, now...
Listen to this article: The newly-acquitted Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leadership is, understandably, in a celebratory mood. On Sunday, Arvind Kejriwal...
Listen to this article: It is open season for every wise and pretentious person to join the chorus bemoaning the crumbling of the “rule-based”...