Variety

There is more to life and politics and current affairs. In this section, we attempt to bring you articles that talk about issues and experiences that matter on a more human and personal level

Satire

With the same ‘zor se bolo’ story to tell, were Kunal Kamra and Mahua Moitra traveling in the same plane and experienced the same...

Sanghamitra - 6 July, 2019

It is, however, a matter of grave concern. How did all so-called left-wingers and anti-BJP opinion cum joke makers ended up in the same plane at the same time to experience the same turbulence?

Opinions

Here is how the real purpose of the ‘Lynchistan’ narrative was to provoke actual violence

Abhishek Banerjee - 6 July, 2019

The killing of Tabrez Ansari in Jharkhand is again an example of a real event picked up and fitted into a false narrative of 'Lynchistan'

Books

Gujarat Lies: A collection Rana Ayyub’s personal vendetta

Nirwa Mehta - 5 July, 2019

After her book was published, Ayyub had accused Tehelka of being under 'political pressure' to not publish the 'sting'

Opinions

Fanatics at the front door: The case of Hauz Qazi

Saket Suryesh - 4 July, 2019

Democracy is all about giving a voice to the voiceless and representation to the faceless. This is what went missing in the initial period of the incident of Hauz Qazi in Old Delhi where a Hindu temple was vandalized.

Opinions

Dear Mahua Moitra, it’s not the Right-wing that is the same everywhere, it’s the Left

K Bhattacharjee - 4 July, 2019

Mahua Moitra, is the new darling of the Left.

Opinions

I am a Hindu: Breaking of temples brings back the worst of my civilizational memories

Abhishek Banerjee - 2 July, 2019

The incident in Chandni Chowk, in the heart of Delhi, in today’s India, causes a deep pain. It reminds us of the humiliation that our ancestors suffered for being Hindus in India.

Opinions

The not-so-syncretic Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb and the false wails of how ‘Sanghis’ turned Urdu into a ‘Muslim language’

kabirpandit - 1 July, 2019

Often one sees 'liberals invoking Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb or the Syncretic Hindu Muslim culture of North India every time they hear the idea of New India. In reality, they see it as an attack on anything Muslim by the BJP.

Satire