Salman Khan Case: Make Jumping the Bail Queue Illegal
Salman Khan and Jayalalitha – two cases in one week exemplify the problem of justice in India. I’m not commenting on whether or not their getting out was right or wrong. My big problem is the fact that...
View ArticleCriminals Have Rights Too – For Our Sake, Not Theirs
Recently the Supreme Court ruled that hangings cannot be carried out secretly and without first allowing the convict to inform their family members and seek legal counsel. Makes sense right? After all,...
View ArticleJindal Discards His Indian Roots – So What?
I think Bobby Jindal is a joker. His remarks about gay marriage itself are enough to mark him out as a silly guy catering only to his deeply conservative GOP base – whether or not he actually believes...
View ArticleNo Tharoor – The British Don’t Owe us Anything
Two months ago, the Oxford Union held a debate on whether or not the British owe reparations to its former colonies. Sashi Tharoor took part in it claiming that yes – the British have a moral...
View ArticleSorry, but we can NEVER Fight “Terror with Terror”
I can’t believe what I’m hearing. Our defense minister now thinks that “You have to neutralize terrorists with terrorists”! This is a shocking statement from someone who clearly has no idea what India...
View ArticleWhy a Beef Ban and no Meat Ban?
Let me understand this right. The Shiv Sena and MNS are against a meat ban in Maharashtra because they don’t want to give in to the Jain community’s demands. Fine. But when it comes to banning beef to...
View ArticleBeef Killings: “Provoked” and “Incited” my Foot!
When a mob kills a man, do you blame the mob or someone who “incited” the mob? Here in India we’ve progressed far down the road of infantalizing our citizens. This means that instead of condemning the...
View ArticleWhy do Hindutva Types Compare us to Saudi Arabia?
Whenever you point out intolerance in India these days, someone will respond “Please see the Middle East/Pakistan etc and look at how they do these things. If you did this there, you would be...
View ArticleModi Should Leave the BJP, Form his own Party
When Modi was elected, I was willing to approach him with an open mind. I’m a firm believer that we need to forget the distant past. So I refused to judge him on the 2002 Godhra riots, just like I...
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Dadri vs Prashant Poojary – Why They’re not the Same
The latest complaint of the Hindu right is to question the difference in the reactions between the Dadri beef lynching episode and the murder of the Bajrang Dal activist Prashant Poojary. You’ll see...
View ArticleShould the Hindu Right Migrate to a New Country?
The Hindu Right is obviously upset. Recently, Girish Karnad got a death threat for saying something related to Tipu Sultan. Now getting a death threat is nothing special. Everyone gets them, especially...
View ArticleYes, Paris Got More Attention than Beirut. Get Over It.
Seems like a lot of people who never showed any concern for Baghdad, Beirut and Lebannon attackes when they happened, have suddenly woken up. Now their complaint is that the rest of the world is...
View ArticleDear Hindutva Right – Please Start Your Own Media Channel
Media bashing is one of the favorite pastimes of the Hindu right. You know those Facebook posts with split images showing supposedly equivalent stories – and how the media reports on one and not the...
View ArticleNot Racism – Expats are Not Immigrants
Accusations of racism are fashionable these days. Paris got more attention that Baghdad? Racism! Someone honestly questions the use of color in affirmative action? Racism! A while ago, the Guardian...
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Billu and the National Anthem
If you try and interfere with someone who is peacefully sitting and eating their popcorn while the National Anthem is playing, YOU are the criminal. You can condemn them verbally on social media – that...
View ArticleOnly Anti-Nationals Proudly Use Violence
I don’t care whether Kashmir is part of India or not. For me, the only value is military. If it makes India less secure to have Pakistan or China control that area, then keep it. Otherwise I could give...
View ArticleSpoof! This is What Fake Patriotism Looks like :D
This video was used a year ago to make fun of the Apple MacBook 2015. Here it is re-purposed for the “Nationalism” debate! Subtitles should be enabled by default. If not, click the “CC” button to show...
View ArticleYou HAVE to Engage the Right – Not Dismiss Them
The world watches in bewilderment, the sudden outburst of rabid patriotism in India. At the Trump phenomenon in the US. At the threats to Turkey’s traditional secularism. But you know what? We’re the...
View ArticleSmriti Irani – Classroom Sanskrit is Useless
Does Smriti Imrani really think that you can become fluent in a language by formally studying it in a classroom without real world exposure? If only it was so simple! Millions of us have studied...
View ArticleRaghuram Rajan – Some People ARE Indispensable!
Ever since the controversy over Raghuram Rajan – the governor of the RBI, I’ve been hearing a lot of statements like this: “No one is indispensable” “India has lots of talent. Replacing Rajan is easy”...
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