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When laughter is no laughing matter
December 27, 2021, 3:19 PM IST
North Korea is an unfortunate country. Its ruler, Kim Jong Un, recently forbade laughing, drinking, and shopping. The idea is to make the 11-day mourning of the 10th anniversary of former leader and his father,…
December 27, 2021, 3:19 PM IST
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Subsidized pilgrimage is welfarism gone berserk
December 17, 2021, 4:57 PM IST
A big problem with governance in India is that often concepts of questionable genuineness and efficacy are unquestioningly embraced and unthinkingly implemented; welfarism is one of them. Unsurprisingly, it has become a cancerous growth that…
December 17, 2021, 4:57 PM IST
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We shouldn’t be proud of Indians dominating Big Tech
December 10, 2021, 12:58 PM IST
With Parag Agrawal becoming Twitter CEO, now a number of Big Tech companies are headed by persons of Indian origin. Unsurprisingly, a wave of patriotism has swept across India. These people have ‘done India proud’—that…
December 10, 2021, 12:58 PM IST
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Farm laws repeal shows debate is dying
December 1, 2021, 9:24 PM IST
The way the Farm Laws Repeal Bill, 2021, was passed in both Houses of Parliament has been criticized both by the Opposition and political commentators. The criticism is valid, but just slamming the Narendra Modi…
December 1, 2021, 9:24 PM IST
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We are all sitting ducks now
November 17, 2021, 12:19 PM IST
There are black swan events like the novel coronavirus, the events that catch everyone unawares. And there are gray rhinos, the highly probable but still neglected threats or events. A foremost example is the killer…
November 17, 2021, 12:19 PM IST
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Regulators are pathetic because regulation is bad
November 10, 2021, 11:24 AM IST
Regulators are needed to ensure the proper functioning of various sectors of the economy—this is often said and widely believed in our country. It is time the received wisdom was scrutinized. For at least in…
November 10, 2021, 11:24 AM IST
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Team India unthinkingly took the knee
November 3, 2021, 3:45 PM IST
The only thing the Indian cricket team did sensible in their match against New Zealand on October 31 was that they didn’t take the knee in support of Black Lives Matter (BLM), the vilest movement…
November 3, 2021, 3:45 PM IST
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Prakash Jha smeared, Hinduism besmirched
October 30, 2021, 10:14 AM IST
By assaulting and smearing award-winning film director Prakash Jha with ink in Bhopal, Bajrang Dal activists have besmirched Hinduism. They claim to be the protectors of Hinduism, but their statements and actions clearly depict them…
October 30, 2021, 10:14 AM IST
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Liberty gasping for breath in India
October 23, 2021, 8:39 PM IST
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat’s recent tirade against over-the-top (OTT) platforms and Bitcoin is an assault on individual freedom, one of action as well as of expression. Unfortunately, it is not the first, and…
October 23, 2021, 8:39 PM IST
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How Daniel Craig killed James Bond
October 11, 2021, 9:10 AM IST
The Bharatiya Janata Party has been accused of ‘appropriating national icons.’ In the West, however, the radical Left, having imbibed postmodern doctrines, is busy doing the same with Western icons. James Bond is the latest…
October 11, 2021, 9:10 AM IST
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East India Company syndrome continues to plague development
September 30, 2021, 2:54 PM IST
One of the major maladies plaguing India’s economic development is the East India Company (EIC) Syndrome: that is, foreign or multinational corporations are the instruments of imperialism or neo-imperialism. The affliction has prevented foreign direct…
September 30, 2021, 2:54 PM IST
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When politicians play God
September 24, 2021, 3:37 PM IST
Beautiful people espousing latest fads is not new, but some of these fads escaping the charmed circles of cause-chasing celebrities and invading the policy domain is—and it is dangerous. Green cults like electric vehicles and…
September 24, 2021, 3:37 PM IST
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India’s big business: A persecuted minority
September 21, 2021, 10:26 PM IST
Sixty years ago, the great philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand delivered a famous lecture in which she called America’s big business as a “persecuted minority.” Evidently, she overlooked the situation in India, for the persecution of all…
September 21, 2021, 10:26 PM IST
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Ford joins auto majors’ quit India movement
September 14, 2021, 3:36 PM IST
The US major Ford is the fifth auto company—after MAN Trucks, General Motors, Harley Davidson, and UM Motorcycles—under the Narendra Modi government to quit India. James Bond wisdom is: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence….
September 14, 2021, 3:36 PM IST
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India can’t become $5-trillion economy by vilifying companies like Infosys
September 8, 2021, 6:08 PM IST
In the West, especially the US, the Left is spearheading cancel culture, in India the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its affiliates seem to have taken charge of the practice that involves mass canceling of…
September 8, 2021, 6:08 PM IST
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First they came for Kama Sutra
August 31, 2021, 8:29 PM IST
Geostrategic thinkers and others are rightly worried about the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. But there are people in our country who are equally violent in their assertion of what is proper—that is, proper from their…
August 31, 2021, 8:29 PM IST
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Auto industry tycoons speak their mind
August 28, 2021, 2:42 PM IST
Maruti chairman R.C. Bhargava and TVS Motors promoter Venu Srinivasan must be lauded for speaking their mind in the presence of government functionaries. This also helped highlight the woes of their sector, many of which…
August 28, 2021, 2:42 PM IST
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Modi lauds wealth creators, Piyush Goyal slams them
August 24, 2021, 1:02 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants the Indian economy to be worth $5 trillion by 2024-25. On a number of occasions, he has stressed on the role of wealth creators and lauded them. In his Independence…
August 24, 2021, 1:02 PM IST
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How a Leftist virus infected and hurt American military
August 21, 2021, 8:07 AM IST
Ideas have consequences; bad ideas certainly have deplorable consequences. Analysts are focused on political decisions and strategic calculus. There is another, major indeed, cause of the ignominy America suffered in Afghanistan: a species of doctrines…
August 21, 2021, 8:07 AM IST
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India refused to act like an aspiring power in Afghanistan
August 16, 2021, 10:55 PM IST
It is fashionable to accuse the US of everything wrong in the world, so it is not surprising that it is being slammed for its exit from Afghanistan. When it invaded Afghanistan two decades ago…
August 16, 2021, 10:55 PM IST
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