S Prasannarajan

Between the politburo of knowledge and the callousness of politics

Rebels for a day, and virtual renegades in a schmaltzy spectacle of piety and panegyrics in the next day’s headlines, the dissenting Congress leaders retreated without the humiliation of a recantation. Some mercy.

Every attempt to impose a moral code of conduct on social media smacks of moral dishonesty—and political desperation

The dispute over freedom remains unresolved

It was as if political Hinduism’s first citizen wanted to liberate Ram from the aggressions and grievances of Hindutva, and dedicate him to the nation

Social decencies of a few restored the dignities of many

How ideologies divide a world when it is most vulnerable

What the failed mutiny in Rajasthan says about the Congress and its leader

Modi’s restraint was not a way of giving in to the bully; it was a refusal to bracket India culturally with China

They want the homogenisation of the mind to preserve the new doctrine of social justice