The media should be contrarian while criticising or praising the government, but a little judiciousness would be welcome.
In these dying days of the UPA regime, to make up for lost time, our opinion-makers are busy clearing a backlog. Hardly a day goes by without a valiant new signature campaign, or a last-gasp effort to save secularism for posterity, or recalling gas chambers and concentration camps.
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Will it be the end of days for today’s media if Modi becomes PM?
I think he may have spotted me. Damn. I duck and take cover behind an Ambassador. A minute passes. What now? Is he looking at me still?
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Why has the BJP included a nascent study like Ayurgenomics in its manifesto?
Every party manifesto contains an odd word or two that catches people’s attention. For the Congress, it is Secularism – frequent usage of which has obliterated its true meaning altogether.
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Is removing Prohibition one way to improve Gujarat’s abysmal Health indices?
What explains our government withholding religion demographic data in the 2011 Census report?
Is the Gujarat Manufacturing Miracle hot air or helium?
The other day, I read Mihir Sharma’s recent column on crony capitalism, Thy hands, great oligarchs. “The takeover of India’s politics by its oligarchs is almost complete”, began Mihir, and once he picked up speed everyone from the Ambanis to the Tatas to the Rangarajans of the world – everyone except Manmohan – had come under his rampaging three-wheeler.
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What does the Bank Of China have in common with Madhya Pradesh?
Is the light from shining Gujarat being reflected on to its Health?
I am a doctor, one of 0.88 million who practice in this country. The general elections are here. My vote will not decide who will be our next Prime minister.
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Our bloated country can give tough competition to the bloated bellies of malnourished children in India.
Is there any good reason why the 833 million farmers who live in India should vote for Modi?
Why people should lambast Penguin and not Dinanath Batra for asking for Wendy Doniger’s book to be banned.
Victimhood is a shop round the corner and I want my daily bread.
There are many stories associated with Henry Ford, the inventor of the assembly-line, and one such merits retelling.
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Why you should watch 12 Years A Slave and Django Unchained back-to-back.
What would have happened if Arnab Goswami had asked Rahul Gandhi the questions he should have asked.
Is the Aam Aadmi Party a colony of Mobile Republics?
“I am an Anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule, and also ruled I will not be!”
– John Mackay
Ever since Arundhati Roy famously declared herself to be a Mobile Republic, I have wished to know what it’d be like to be one.
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Are molecular biology and medicine borrowing from children’s imaginations to cure debilitating diseases?
Newslaundry founders & employees in Tihar? Do you want to free them?
Is this what Aakar Patel doddles during edit meetings at the PMO?
Hello, dear readers! Your uncle Rangarajan this side of the digital divide. Normally I wouldn’t hesitate to offer you my jasmine-scented greetings but what to do? The omnipotent Balaji knows I am helpless.
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Why Modi and BJP are a thinking Indian’s challenge.
Editor’s note: There’s a mystery to this article, so be sure to read till the end.
Narendra Modi is a man before his time. A couple of decades along, too late for him, there will be a bigger constituency in India for the anti-Muslim demagogue.
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Why Modi and BJP are a thinking Indian’s challenge.
All the 158 sentences – their every word, every punctuation – that make up the article: Modi Magic?, belong solely to Mr Aakar Patel. They have been employed verbatim after screening 79 of his articles.
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