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The ghost of Bofors returns

The ghost of Bofors returns
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Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

The ghost of Bofors returns

The ghost of Bofors returns
sunday 60

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

Fifth column by Tavleen Singh: The ghost of Bofors returns

Fifth column by Tavleen Singh: The ghost of Bofors returns
sunday 20

The Financial Express

Tavleen Singh

Recent elections show Gandhi family’s arrogance isn’t popular among voters

Recent elections show Gandhi family’s arrogance isn’t popular among voters
23.02.2025 10

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

Recent elections show Gandhi family’s arrogance isn’t popular among voters

Recent elections show Gandhi family’s arrogance isn’t popular among voters
23.02.2025 10

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

India needs DOGE

16.02.2025 20

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

Fifth column by Tavleen Singh: India needs DOGE

Fifth column by Tavleen Singh: India needs DOGE
16.02.2025 40

The Financial Express

Tavleen Singh

In Delhi, this was no election, but a referendum on Kejriwal

09.02.2025 10

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

Real patriotism versus false nationalism

26.01.2025 10

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

Real patriotism versus false nationalism

26.01.2025 10

Indian Express

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Why it’s high time for Congress to come up with a new and convincing plan

19.01.2025 20

Indian Express

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Fifth column by Tavleen Singh: Defending democracy

19.01.2025 20

The Financial Express

Tavleen Singh

AAP vs BJP, and why election campaigning in Delhi is verging on the absurd

13.01.2025 30

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

AAP vs BJP, and why election campaigning in Delhi is verging on the absurd

12.01.2025 50

Indian Express

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We are guilty of lazy journalism

We are guilty of lazy journalism. And we have forgotten that we are supposed to be writing that first draft of history and to do this involves...

05.01.2025 3

Indian Express

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Fifth column by Tavleen Singh: Introspection needed in the media

It could be an exalted sense of my place in the grand scheme of things. It could be that when I sit down to write the first column of a new year, I...

05.01.2025 10

The Financial Express

Tavleen Singh

Express View: What spending surveys show — and what they don’t

Household consumption expenditure survey findings need to be correlated with other data, like those on wages.

30.12.2024 4

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

Express View: A crisis to the west

Cross-border strikes by Pakistan and Afghanistan's retaliation mark a deepening of volatility in a fragile region

30.12.2024 8

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

Manmohan Singh: The man who changed India

What matters now is that he will be remembered not for his flaws, but for the incredible transformation that he brought about in India with his...

29.12.2024 30

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

Manmohan Singh: The man who changed India

What matters now is that he will be remembered not for his flaws, but for the incredible transformation that he brought about in India with his...

29.12.2024 30

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

Shame and hypocrisy

It is my view that the Home Minister spoke carelessly about Dr Ambedkar. But it is true that it had become fashionable to chant Ambedkar’s name by...

23.12.2024 9

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

Shame and hypocrisy

What really nauseated me about the shenanigans in Parliament last week was the hypocrisy. Manifest in the attempt by everyone on all sides of the...

22.12.2024 4

The Financial Express

Tavleen Singh

Shame and hypocrisy

It is my view that the Home Minister spoke carelessly about Dr Ambedkar. But it is true that it had become fashionable to chant Ambedkar’s name by...

22.12.2024 6

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

A personal request to our Members of Parliament — grow up please

In a country in which most people are illiterate in the ways of democracy these are dangerous ideas to propound because they can end up being...

15.12.2024 6

Indian Express

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Express View: Plug the gaps in TB drug supply

Drug shortage could jeopardise success of government’s anti-TB campaign

09.12.2024 3

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

Express View: Unfreezing India-China ties

A broader political dialogue between Delhi and Beijing is set to resume. It will bring opportunities for India, and challenges

09.12.2024 3

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

‘I was on the right path until I was lost’

08.12.2024 3

Indian Express

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Religiosity is sick, not secularism

But can this happen now that ordinary Hindus behave like holy warriors? On social media, while writing this piece, I spotted a video of a Hindu...

08.12.2024 8

Indian Express

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Fifth column by Tavleen Singh: Religiosity is sick, not secularism

When the monstrous Taliban government announced last week that Afghan women would no longer be allowed to study medicine, my first reaction was...

08.12.2024 10

The Financial Express

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Bangladesh must work harder to build trust with minorities

All communities participated in Bangladesh’s Liberation Movement and its vision for an inclusive society is well-documented. Yet almost every...

02.12.2024 30

Indian Express

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Tavleen Singh writes: Violence in wastelands

As someone who has traveled in much poorer countries than India, I often say in this column, that there is almost no country in the world in which...

01.12.2024 3

Indian Express

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What difference will PM Modi's promise of third largest economy make if Delhi citizens are forced to breathe poisonous air

What difference will that make if the citizens of Delhi are forced to breathe poisonous air. If our sacred rivers continue to resemble drains. And...

24.11.2024 4

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

Fifth column by Tavleen Singh: Reckless populism

Such a shame that elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand consumed our interest for most of last week. Then came the sensational news that Gautam...

24.11.2024 5

The Financial Express

Tavleen Singh

Why SC’s ‘bulldozer justice’ verdict gives me hope, Maharashtra poll campaign despair

Yogi Adityanath began using bulldozers to demolish the homes of rioters when Muslims took to the streets to protest the Citizenship Amendment Act.

17.11.2024 10

Indian Express

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For criminal neglect of our ancient monuments, all our politicians need to answer

First an admission. I glanced through Rahul Gandhi’s article on his economic ideology published in this newspaper last week and found it dull and...

10.11.2024 3

Indian Express

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Fifth column by Tavleen Singh: Socialist prince vs real princes

First an admission. I glanced through Rahul Gandhi’s article on his economic ideology published in this newspaper last week and found it dull and...

10.11.2024 4

The Financial Express

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Uniformity that's not needed. PM, can you please stop banging on about ‘one nation, one law, one ration card’ ?

The Prime Minister said some things last week that I found worrying and more than a little scary. Worrying because in this country that is the size...

03.11.2024 20

Indian Express

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Fifth column by Tavleen Singh: Charisma’s fading lustre

Last week, yet another member of the Dynasty that has ruled India for most of her years as an independent country entered electoral politics....

27.10.2024 10

The Financial Express

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I truly feel that Priyanka coming to Parliament will make little difference to the fortunes of the Congress Party

Last week, yet another member of the Dynasty that has ruled India for most of her years as an independent country entered electoral politics....

27.10.2024 3

Indian Express

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Why is governance not more important than politics? Is governance not the ultimate objective of being in politics?

There are some stories I tell with a sense of shame. This is one of them. The reason why is that I spent a day last week talking to some of the...

20.10.2024 3

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

When will someone remind Rahul that India was socialist for decades under his family’s rule and all that was achieved was the redistribution of poverty

How many more elections does the Congress Party need to lose before it realizes that it is time to reincarnate itself as the political party it...

13.10.2024 4

Indian Express

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Fifth column by Tavleen Singh: Congress needs reincarnation

How many more elections does the Congress Party need to lose before it realises that it is time to reincarnate itself as the political party it...

13.10.2024 3

The Financial Express

Tavleen Singh

I fear the worst, when I see politicians spend recklessly on populist schemes in name of welfare

06.10.2024 10

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

When Modi came to power, he promised that he would punish corrupt officials. And he has, but in such choosy fashion that his credibility is low

This week I want to talk about ethics and corruption in public life. Not just because yet another chief minister has been found indulging in dodgy...

29.09.2024 10

Indian Express

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Fifth column by Tavleen Singh: Are corrupt officials alone to blame?

This week I want to talk about ethics and corruption in public life. Not just because yet another chief minister has been found indulging in dodgy...

29.09.2024 30

The Financial Express

Tavleen Singh

BJP’s dirty tricks department has run a campaign of innuendoes and lies that seeks to prove that Gandhi family works as agents of Pakistan’s ISI

In this column, I have explained more than once that as a political columnist my job is to write about politicians, their policies, their...

22.09.2024 4

Indian Express

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It is time for some history lessons for the man who, a recent poll reveals, is the people’s choice for prime minister after Modi

Every time political analysts and polls indicate that it is time to take Rahul Gandhi seriously, he trots off on a foreign visit and says enough...

15.09.2024 10

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

Rahul needs an education

Every time political analysts and polls indicate that it is time to take Rahul Gandhi seriously, he trots off on a foreign visit and says enough...

15.09.2024 4

The Financial Express

Tavleen Singh

PM Modi has not achieved the great things that he promised, and it is because of this that people have lost faith

The dust has settled, the shockwaves that the results of the general election sent have ebbed. It is time for dispassionate analysis. This is...

08.09.2024 10

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh

In Mumbai, Kerala film industries, if a woman makes a complaint, at least she is believed

In the film industry, they call it “compromise” without the faintest trace of irony. Maybe the word assuages some of the guilt in the man and the...

01.09.2024 10

Indian Express

Tavleen Singh