665 Articles by
Abhishek Banerjee
Abhishek Banerjee is a columnist and author.
Opinions
Kargil Vijay Diwas: Congress treated Atal Bihari Vajpayee no better than they treat PM Modi
It is July 26, which is Kargil Vijay Diwas. Who is celebrating? The whole country for sure. But did you know that it wasn’t always like that?
Media
Are Communist trolls from Kerala scared of the BBC?
Elite media's torrid love affair with 'Kerala model' for coronavirus containment has come to an end.
Opinions
Dear liberal media, please promise to be respectful no matter how Covaxin trial goes
As India begins human trials of coronavirus, the liberal media needs to learn its lessons from its own conduct on how to be respectful, should we not succeed at first go.
Opinions
Varavara Rao is an anti-national and possibly a terrorist
Liberals want to give excuses that Varavara Rao is old, he is a poet, he is headmaster’s son, he is pregnant, whatever. And Big Bad Modi has put him in jail.
Politics
How a ground-level BJP karyakarta rattled Shashi Tharoor
Sometimes, it is the little things that tell you the most about a person and how he thinks. We will find out what led Shashi Tharoor to spit out this fiery tweet.
Opinions
Police encounters and ‘secular privilege’ in Indian politics
Between 2002 and 2007, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) found 440 cases of suspected “fake” encounters by the police across India.
Political History of India
When Rajnath Singh fought for the country but lost an election
Today is the birthday of Defense Minister Rajnath Singh. And let me tell you a story about the time Rajnath Singh lost from Mohana Assembly constituency in the 1993 elections to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.
Politics
Jyoti Basu is the mass murderer India forgot
Please don’t feel bad about speaking ill of the Late Jyoti Basu. If there is another world, be certain that there are (at least) 28,000 voices from the other side backing you up.
Politics
“Jahaan hue balidaan Mookherjee, wo Kashmir hamara hai”: Remembering Dr S P Mookherjee on first birth anniversary after abrogation of Article 370
Today is July 6, the birth anniversary of Dr S P Mookherjee, the first one sine this dream was fulfilled. And it is extremely special.
Politics
Britain makes CAA like offer to HongKongers persecuted by China
Just because a law does not contain special provisions for every conceivable disadvantaged group does not make it discriminatory.