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| Tryst with collectivism: Advani disapproves of Ranbaxy sale Ravi Shanker Kapoor LK Advani's disapproval of Ranbaxy's sale to Japan's Daiichi-Sankyo is not very wise. What it shows is that the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) leader still views nationalism in a narrow context. If an Indian company, say, Tata Motors, buys a fore.. (full story) |  | |
| Nitish indulges in Muslim appeasement Ravi Shanker Kapoor The meretricious charms of populist polices and Muslim votes have seduced many a politician—and checked the growth of numerous political careers. To begin with, Jawaharlal Nehru wooed and placated Muslims; it was primarily because of him that they remaine.. (full story) | |
| Govt dumps Malaysia's Hindus Ravi Shanker Kapoor How pompous our political masters can get! The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government, which has done nothing for Indian Diaspora, continues to wax about the people of Indian origin. Consider the case of Malaysian Hindus. A racist and Islamist regim.. (full story) | | |
| Legalized loot: NREGS is deeply flawed Ravi Shanker Kapoor As feared by prudent economists, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government's Rs 12,000-crore flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is proving to be a massive scam. The average employment generated last year was just 18 days, a.. (full story) | |
| Kangaroo cricket: Ponting's shameless victory Ravi Shanker Kapoor There is a quotable quote from one of James Bond novels: "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action." So, Indians should not be accused of peddling conspiracy theories if they see some nasty design to defeat their cricket tea.. (full story) | | |
| Rang de basanti: Let the generation sleep Ravi Shanker Kapoor Is murder the only efficacious mode of political action available in today’s India? The recent hit Hindi movie, Rang de basanti, answers in the affirmative. And its popularity seems to suggest that people are not too averse to the idea of political.. (full story) | |
| Leftists, Muslims protest ad nauseam Ravi Shanker Kapoor While most of the nation welcomed US President George Bush and the growing bonhomie between the two largest democracies in the world, the leaders of Leftists and Muslims indulged in the worst form of rabble-rousing. It is a surprise that there were.. (full story) | | |
| Budget 2006: Without direction Ravi Shanker Kapoor Budget 2006, presented by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on February 28 in Parliament, was as unimaginative and pusillanimous as the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has proved to be in the last 22 months. The Finance Minister did not.. (full story) | |
| Jessica verdict: Welcome to Jungle Law Ravi Shanker Kapoor What the Jessica Lal verdict has confirmed, if confirmation was needed, is that the rule of law has collapsed in our country. A couple of rich, spoilt brats go to a bar, which is about to shut down. The bartending girl, Jessica Lal, refuses to serv.. (full story) | | |
| BJP should challenge all quotas Ravi Shanker Kapoor The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has rightly criticized the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for its step to conduct a Muslim headcount in the military. But the issue will not die down; it will not remain confined to the Muslim headcount, nor .. (full story) | |
| Kamal Nath unnecessarily bats for Mittal Ravi Shanker Kapoor Commerce & Industry Minister Kamal Nath’s for steel magnate L.N. Mittal’s bid for Arcelor is, to put it mildly, half-witted. As the Hindi adage goes, Begaani shaadi mein Abdullah deewanathat is, Abdullah is getting unnecessarily involved in.. (full story) | | |
| BJP takes right stand on Muslim headcount Ravi Shanker Kapoor The best thing that has happened in the wake of the controversy regarding Muslim headcount in the armed forces is the aggressive posture adopted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It seems that the main Opposition party, supposedly representing Hindu in.. (full story) | |
| Goons disgrace Hinduism on Valentine’s Day Ravi Shanker Kapoor The protests carried out by various Hindu groups against Valentine’s Day celebrations might have been dismissed as a boring ritual had they not been violent and virulent. But by indulging in vandalism and violenceransacking shops selling Valentine.. (full story) | | |
| AAI employees need rod Ravi Shanker Kapoor The Manmohan Singh government should take off its kid gloves and firmly deal with the striking employees of the Airports Authority of India (AAI). As the people responsible for the running of airports, they have never been synonymous with efficiency᠓.. (full story) | |
| Prophet’s cartoons: Intolerance redux Ravi Shanker Kapoor The Muslim reaction to the printing of cartoons derogatory to Prophet Mohammad has once again exposed the intolerant nature of Islam. What is really disturbing is the fact that some politicians and intellectuals are actually justifying Muslim intolerance... (full story) | | |
| Red hand in Orissa violence Ravi Shanker Kapoor Wherever there is destruction, death, chaos, and disorder, the signature of communists can be clearly seen. The violence in Orissa on January 2, in which one policeman and 12 tribals were killed, is no exception. Our worst fears, about the complici.. (full story) | |
| Left again bullies govt Ravi Shanker Kapoor Once again, the Left has prevailed upon the Manmohan Singh government, and disinvestment in National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) and Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) has been deferred. The deferment is not bad; what is really bad is that the g.. (full story) | | |
| Attack on Christmas: Secularism running amok Ravi Shanker Kapoor Secularism is proving to be a malaise not only in India but in the entire world. Secularists, with support from liberals and Left loonies, are determined to destroy all that is traditional, conventional, and of course religious. The attack on Christianity.. (full story) | |
| Muslims violence Down Under Ravi Shanker Kapoor A few questions come to the mind in the wake of the latest violence in Australia: What is the problem of Muslims? Why can’t they live peacefully in any place in the world? Why do they have to fight all non-Muslims? A report in The Times on D.. (full story) | | |
| Uma’s ouster: Intellectuals love BJP’s discomfiture Ravi Shanker Kapoor The reaction of intellectuals to the ouster of Uma Bharti from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) reveals not only their antipathy towards the party but also against the Hindu community. The charges are against the BJP; insinuations are against Hindu societ.. (full story) | |
| Defeat of caste politics Ravi Shanker Kapoor The Bihar assembly poll results have shown that gimmicks, buffoonery, and caste politics cannot be used perennially to fool the voter. The popular verdict has also proved those pompous analysts and political commentators wrong who believed, with Lalu Pras.. (full story) | | |
| Bush appeases China, ignores Taiwan Ravi Shanker Kapoor In his recent visit to China, US President George Bush re-emphasized his predilection for political and religious freedoms and for democracy; he also expressed his happiness over the “spread of democracies here in the Far East.” Unfortunately, he seemed t.. (full story) | |
| Naxal attack should wake up Patil Ravi Shanker Kapoor What is really surprising about the Jehanabad attack executed by the Naxalites is the surprise it has elicited in the government, the media, and among opinion-makers. For the Naxal violence in the Bihar town on November 13 was hardly unexpected. Among oth.. (full story) | | |
| JNU fanatics insult PM Ravi Shanker Kapoor The unseemly behavior that greeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his speech at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Monday is clearly symptomatic of the growing intolerance of the communists. That the cantankerous and insolent shouters chose to heckle .. (full story) | |
| Reds help Natwar Ravi Shanker Kapoor It might appear curious that the communist parties, the self-appointed champions of morality and propriety, have thrown their weight behind former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh in the event of the findings of the Volcker Committee report. A close.. (full story) | | |
| Communists are incorrigible Ravi Shanker Kapoor The noises that our commies make against foreign direct investment (FDI), labor reforms, etc, are signify nothing. For they don’t practice what they preach; in West Bengal, the Left Front government is ardently wooing investment, even FDI. Ergo, the threa.. (full story) | |
| Do we need secularism? Ravi Shanker Kapoor Secularism is the most crucial subject in Indian politics: it is the ultimate frame of reference to commend or condemn parties and leaders; it is the subject most commented upon in our country. Yet, few in India know or understand what really secul.. (full story) | | |
| Advani should go Ravi Shanker Kapoor Power, said Acton, corrupts. But the lust for power can have a worse effect: it often locks up politicians in their own universe, completely cut off from the real world. This is the case of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president L.K. Advani. When i.. (full story) | |
| Communist conspiracy to destroy India (II) Ravi Shanker Kapoor The suspicion that communists are actively and zealously working to hurt India’s national interests is strengthening every day. Two incidents, as reported in newspapers on October 6, make us more suspicious of the intentions of commies. First, they.. (full story) | | |
| Sonia hurts national interest Ravi Shanker Kapoor What is Sonia Gandhi up to? She is opposed to anything that is in the national interest, be it the industrialization of backward states or the curtailment of various extremist movements in trouble-torn regions. Worse, her opposition is not passive but act.. (full story) | |
| Teach Bangladesh a lesson Ravi Shanker Kapoor The only appropriate way to deal with Bangladeshis is to whip them. For, as the Hindi saying goes, Laaton ke bhoot baaton se nahin maante—that is, ruffians and rogues do not understand the language of persuasion. And Bangladesh is nothing if not a .. (full story) | | |
| Communist conspiracy to destroy India Ravi Shanker Kapoor We always knew that the ideology and activities of communists hurt national interests. The recent events, however, suggest that there is a method in the supposed Leftwing madness; that the seemingly irrational attitude of the Left on a number of issues ha.. (full story) | |
| Red star over India Ravi Shanker Kapoor The introduction of the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) Bill is testimony to the growing influence of the communists, an influence that is greatly disproportionate to their political strength. But that is not all; the pusillanimity of the champ.. (full story) | | |
| BJP favors rogue state Ravi Shanker Kapoor The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to have made a tryst with idiocy. Its criticism of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government on the vote against Iran in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) just underlines the fact the principal Opp.. (full story) | |
| Anti-Naxal task force needs political will Ravi Shanker Kapoor The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government finally seems to be waking up to the threat of Naxal menace. Would this waking up result in some concrete steps and good results? The chances are dim. At a meeting of the chief ministers of 13 Naxal.. (full story) | | |
| The “foreign hand” that manipulated commies Ravi Shanker Kapoor The expose in The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World, that the leaders of the Congress and the Communist Party of India (CPI) acted as KGB agents during the Cold War, has reiterated and underlined what was known to us for quite some time. .. (full story) | |
| Left lays landmines in economy Ravi Shanker Kapoor The economic scenario of India seldom looked as rosy as it looks now, with almost all macroeconomic indicators suggesting vibrancy and buoyancy. This is attracting investment, direct as well as portfolio, but what investors seem to be overlooking is the f.. (full story) | | |
| Muslim “moderates” are merchants of mendacity Ravi Shanker Kapoor You can fool all the people for all the time—this seems to be the conviction of liberal intellectuals and “moderate” Muslims. That is why they keep repeating the two most dangerous lies of current times: first, “only a handful of Muslims” are responsible .. (full story) | |
| Jyoti Basu’s son lives life kingsize Ravi Shanker Kapoor When communists rail against consumerism and Western decadence, what they mean is that ordinary people should not enjoy the fruits of their own labor and the progress of technology. The commies, however, don’t mean that they themselves and their relati.. (full story) | | |
| Commercialization of education: Need of the hour Ravi Shanker Kapoor The Supreme Court’s decision against reservations in private educational institutes has evoked angry reaction from the political class, which seems to be united against the apex court’s verdict. A term doing the rounds is “commercialization of education”—.. (full story) | |
| The descendants of Gandhari Ravi Shanker Kapoor Some are born blind, some get afflicted with blindness, and some blindfold themselves. Communists belong to the first category, Left-of-the-Center intellectuals to the second, and liberals to the third. Communists are blind in the sense that they c.. (full story) | | |
| Unruly populism: MPs abuse judiciary Ravi Shanker Kapoor There is nothing surprising about the manner in which members of Parliament (MPs) attacked the judiciary on Wednesday on the issue of reservations in private education institutes. For our legislature has become not only dim-witted but also completely immu.. (full story) | |
| Politicians oppose SC decision: Unbridled populism Ravi Shanker Kapoor The ganging up of the entire political class against the Supreme Court’s decision on private unaided colleges is symptomatic of the malady of populism that gravely afflicts India’s body-politic. On Tuesday, politicians across political lines in bot.. (full story) | | |
| BJP’s tryst with idiocy Ravi Shanker Kapoor The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to have made a tryst with idiocy. Its two recent decisions—to support the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government on the issue of Women’s Reservation Bill and oppose it on the Indo-US nuclear pact—make evident t.. (full story) | |
| Gurgaon helps Left Ravi Shanker Kapoor In the Left’s scheme of things, Gurgaon has become sexy. Not because of its glittering malls, lively multiplexes, and plush residential complexes; the comrades have no use of such bourgeois trappings. They love bloody conflicts; and that is what Gurgaon o.. (full story) | | |
| Sonia’s belief: After me, the deluge Ravi Shanker Kapoor Left-inspired populism is all set to attain new heights, with the Manmohan Singh government being forced to accept an employment guarantee law. The Left has found a docile tool in National Advisory Council (NAC) chairperson Sonia Gandhi. The NAC is.. (full story) | |
| When will liberals see the evil of communism? Ravi Shanker Kapoor When the Reds scream for the rights of workers, they don’t include the poor chaps who have the misfortune of being employees of communist front organizations. They are sacked summarily even for the slightest of mistakes, without proper compensation. Yet, .. (full story) | | |
| Gurgaon cold to Left rhetoric Ravi Shanker Kapoor By giving a lukewarm response to the bandh called by the Left parties on July 28, Gurgaon has shown that it is not willing to become a puppet in the hands of commies. While manufacturing businesses remained usually shut, most malls and call.. (full story) | |
| Tragedy of Gurgaon: Credulous media, Left lies Ravi Shanker Kapoor The labor unrest in Gurgaon has signified that the media is too willing to help the commies. It accepts the Left lies hook, line, and sinker. It was only after about 24 hours that it dawned upon the journalists covering the labor strife that it was not ju.. (full story) | | |
| Indo-US N-pact and BJP’s dementia Ravi Shanker Kapoor The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is suffering from an acute form of dementia. Senior BJP leader and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s criticism of the Indo-US nuclear pact highlights the party’s dementia. The worst aspect of Vajpayee’s .. (full story) | |
| Muslim sophistry on London bombings Ravi Shanker Kapoor After the London bombings, the so-called moderate Muslims have been quick to take recourse to sophistry. Whether they are in the West or in India, the reaction is same: deceive everybody by prevaricating. A Reuters report on July 15 clearly demons.. (full story) | | |
| PM is right on British Empire Ravi Shanker Kapoor It is saddening to note that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statesmanlike comment on the “beneficial effects” of the British Empire on India is being subjected to unwarranted scrutiny—and that too by people who are least qualified to carry out such scrut.. (full story) | |
| G8 aid: Making responsibility history Ravi Shanker Kapoor The $50 billion aid package by the G8 nations for Africa and the Palestinian Authority is as dim-witted as it is damaging. On the face of it, this is a generous gesture, intended to help the needy in the poorest African nations. The pledge appears .. (full story) | | |
| Islamic terror in London Ravi Shanker Kapoor Be prepared for a barrage of platitudes and plain lies from Leftists and liberals in the wake of the July 7 London bombings. “It is only a handful of Muslims who indulge in such acts”; “Islam is a religion of peace”; “Islam does not permit such barbaric a.. (full story) | |
| Kulkarni is a disease Ravi Shanker Kapoor Sudheendra Kulkarni is the embodiment of the disease the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been suffering from for quite some time-the disease of guilt. Guilt has been growing in the BJP since the demolition of Babri structure on December 6, 1992-th.. (full story) | | |
| Dump Kulkarni Ravi Shanker Kapoor Once upon a time, great men like Swami Vivekanand, Swami Dayanand, Bankim Chandra, Lokmanya Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai, B.C. Pal, and Veer Savarkar were the leading lights of Hindu nationalism. Now a political mercenary, with the reputation of being a corpora.. (full story) | |
| Treacherous Left dictates terms Ravi Shanker Kapoor Communists have always been notorious for working against the best interests of the nation. Their tirade against important functionaries of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government under Manmohan Singh underlines their treacherous role in contempo.. (full story) | | |
| Why are secularists silent? Ravi Shanker Kapoor Whom would our professional revolutionaries blame for Imrana’s predicament? In their scheme of things, somebody or something other than Islamic is responsible for every problem Muslim society is facing, be it terrorism, backwardness, bigotry, or misogyny... (full story) | |
| Call Left’s bluff Ravi Shanker Kapoor The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government under Manmohan Singh should expose the lies, doublespeak, and hypocrisy of the Left. What is surprising is that the commies are able to sell their lies successfully to the media; and few journalists are que.. (full story) | | |
| In defence of RSS Ravi Shanker Kapoor The Congress has challenged the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) to cite the names of any of its members who were freedom fighters. The Congress is infuriated that RSS chief KS Sudarshan recently held Jawaharlal Nehru responsible for all the ills of the .. (full story) | |
| Ignore Left on Posco Ravi Shanker Kapoor On any issue, you can expect the Left Front to take the stupidest stand. The proposed $12 billion investment by the South Korean steel major Pohang Steel Company (Posco) in Orissa is no exception. While anybody with an iota of commonsense would welcome su.. (full story) | | |
| Aiyar appeases Left Ravi Shanker Kapoor Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar is determined to please the Left—at the expense of the nation. Coming close on the heels of his pipedream (see Aiyar’s pipedream on this site) is his fight with Finance Minister P Chidambaram on the issu.. (full story) | |
| Aiyar’s pipedream Ravi Shanker Kapoor It is time somebody stopped Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar from sacrificing national interests and wasting taxpayers’ money. His Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project has gone too far; it should be ended with immediate effect. .. (full story) | | |
| Ruchir Joshi: Useful Idiot Ravi Shanker Kapoor If you want to learn something about the pathology of India’s intellectuals, read Ruchir Joshi’s leader article in Hindustan Times (June 13, 2005). What it clearly demonstrates is the fact that Indian liberals have slavishly accepted the rhetoric, .. (full story) | |
| Advani clings to office after melodrama Ravi Shanker Kapoor Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Lal Krishna Advani is much more craven than we thought he was. His decision to withdraw the resignation has exposed him as a petty politician who lacks uprightness and firmness. Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) lea.. (full story) | | |
| Togadia is right Ravi Shanker Kapoor Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Praveen Togadia has rightly called Lal Krishna Advani a traitor. We do not fully subscribe to the ideology of VHP, but we assert that Togadia has clearly comprehended Advani’s game-plan: to completely give up the excepti.. (full story) | |
| India: A failed state Ravi Shanker Kapoor Political commentators in India are fond of calling Pakistan a “failed state,” given the havoc wrought by uncontrollable jihadis in our neighboring country. Few Indians, however, are willing to admit that their own country is hurtling towards anarchy. Whi.. (full story) | | |
| Liberals discourage democracies Ravi Shanker Kapoor It is quite baffling that intellectuals all over the world lecture, instruct, and harangue democratic leaders, especially those on the Right. On the other hand, intellectuals accept the existence of terrorists as a fait accompli of human condition... (full story) | |
| Job quota: Capitalists work against capitalism Ravi Shanker Kapoor “Capitalists,” Lenin said, “will sell the rope with which we will hang them.” Indian capitalists definitely will! Their in-principle acceptant of the rotten concept of “affirmative action” reveals their keenness to sell Lenin’s rope. Indian capita.. (full story) | | |
| Idiotic ban to placate modern redeemers Ravi Shanker Kapoor Pandering to the anti-smoking lobby and the self-appointed redeemers of mankind, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has issued a fatwa to ban smoking in films and on television. How more idiotic a government can get! The ratio.. (full story) | |
| The speech Advani wants to make but will never Ravi Shanker Kapoor It is indeed surprising that Bharatiya Janata Party president L.K. Advani, who betrayed the Hindus and the nation while in office for six years, can speak the truth. Currently visiting Pakistan on the invitation of the government, he said at a gat.. (full story) | | |
| Sunil Dutt’s death unleashes Hindu-bashing Ravi Shanker Kapoor In these ultra-secular times, even an obituary can become a contrivance to laud Nehruvian values and malign Hindu society and its supposed champion, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). That is what has happened with most articles on film star and Congress l.. (full story) | |
| India: A terrorist state? Ravi Shanker Kapoor Pakistan, Islamic fundamentalists, and other anti-India entities can relax. They must realize that nobody does the job of tarnishing India’s image better than the government of India. Our official agencies have been successful in ruining our relations wit.. (full story) | | |
| Bombay: The siege within Ravi Shanker Kapoor Bombay has become the theatre of many a battle. The issues involved are ideological, political, and economic, though they may appear to be local in nature. The Maharashtra government wants to take three important steps, two of which are good and o.. (full story) | |
| Bihar: Shocking political drama Ravi Shanker Kapoor The ongoing Bihar drama has exposed the entire political class as unscrupulous, unprincipled, and deceitful. Not that it is a great revelation and we have suddenly come to know something shocking; it is only the enormity of hypocrisy and duplicity of poli.. (full story) | | |
| AMU quota: Unadulterated Muslim appeasement Ravi Shanker Kapoor Some functionaries of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government are awfully keen to flaunt their “progressive” and secular credentials—which in India means Muslim appeasement and Hindu-bashing. Union Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh.. (full story) | |
| Manmohan Singh’s one year: Not as bad as was expected Ravi Shanker Kapoor The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is celebrating the first year in power under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh; and the big media is busy writing nice things about the government. We analyze Singh’s one year in office in a fashion no editor has dared to.. (full story) | | |
| Demolish the Left Ravi Shanker Kapoor The problem with the champions of liberalization is that they don’t disdain the Left, whereas the Leftists loathe reformers from their guts. The result is that liberalizers, ignoring the invective the Left hurls at them, keep persuading the Left about the.. (full story) | |
| US liberals eulogize scurrility Ravi Shanker Kapoor American liberals seem to have reached the peak of their frustration. The curious case of Ajai Raj, a 19 year-old Indian-American studying at the University of Texas, shows that liberals have started rubbishing reason and eulogizing scurrility. It also sh.. (full story) | | |
| Jihad Factory mirrors Pakistan Ravi Shanker Kapoor It is “only a handful” of hotheads who wage jihad and, therefore, besmirch the good message of Islam—this line of argument is zealously promoted by Leftists and liberals all over the world. Sushant Sareen’s debut book, The Jihad.. (full story) | |
| Unnecessarily tarnishing Shourie Ravi Shanker Kapoor Finance Minister P Chidambaram has exposed himself as a petty politician by unnecessarily raking up the issue of Juhu Centaur Hotel sale by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). The allegations made against the then Disinvestment Minister Arun S.. (full story) | | |
| Taslima issue exposes Left intellectual’s duplicity Ravi Shanker Kapoor The denial of visa to Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen proves—if proof is required—that the Indian state is hell-bent on appeasing Muslims. Her visa expired on February 28; and the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is still to make up.. (full story) | |
| Chidambaram remains obstinate Ravi Shanker Kapoor In his refusal to scrap the withdrawal tax and fringe benefit tax (FBT), Finance Minister P Chidambaram has exhibited a mulishness that has not been seen in senior leaders in the recent past. Speaking in Parliament on the Budget, he diluted the tw.. (full story) | | |
| Manmohan Singh and Vajpayee: A comparison Ravi Shanker Kapoor There is something estimable in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Despite all the constraints and restraints, he has not given up. The indefatigable man as he is, he has now taken up the unenviable assignment of ushering in second generation reforms. .. (full story) | |
| Appeasement of all, justice for none Ravi Shanker Kapoor This is how our political class deals with treason. "The government has strongly condemned this dastardly act of violence." Can you count how many times our honourable ministers have uttered this vacuous rhetoric? When terrorists gun down our soldiers in .. (full story) | | |
| Kerala workers expose CPM’s hypocrisy Ravi Shanker Kapoor Even as the communists continue to shout pro-proletariat slogans, the working class in their strongholds, West Bengal and Kerala, has started protesting against the wisdom of Reds. In Calcutta, some employees of Great Eastern Hotel (GEH) have foun.. (full story) | |
| Bangladesh humiliates India Ravi Shanker Kapoor Chances are slim that the Manmohan Singh government would give a befitting reply to the outrage perpetrated by the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR). So far, the government has done little more than express its “deep disappointment and regret.” It has vaguely spoke.. (full story) | | |
| Dance bizarre of Maharashtra govt Ravi Shanker Kapoor What is common between Socrates and the dance bar girls of Bombay? Well, both have been accused of corrupting the youth. The great Greek philosopher was executed on the charge that he was corrupting the youth of Athens. More than two millennia lat.. (full story) | |
| Intellectuals will always hate US Ravi Shanker Kapoor Intellectuals enjoy great ingenuity in finding reasons to run down the United States for its real and imaginary sins. Salman Rushdie is no exception. In a recent interview to Reuters, he said, “What I think plays into Islamic terrorism is ... the .. (full story) | | |
| BJP refuses to wake up Ravi Shanker Kapoor Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders have increasingly started resembling the Bourbons of yore: they have learnt nothing and they have forgotten nothing. Instead of doing some serious analysis of the political and economic situation prevailing in .. (full story) | |
| Left’s hypocrisy on economic policy Ravi Shanker Kapoor There is such a wide gulf between the precept and practice of the Left that one does not know what does it stand for on vital economic issues. Would it welcome foreign investment or not? Does it support the patents regime or is it opposed to it? Does it b.. (full story) | | |
| Politicians promote illegal Muslim immigration Ravi Shanker Kapoor There is nothing unusual in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s refusal to check the demographic aggression launched by Bangladesh against India. Comprising some of the most zealous Muslim appeasers, the UPA is not supposed to act tough aga.. (full story) | |
| Tyranny of unions in Bengal Ravi Shanker Kapoor The communist movement seems to be suffering from schizophrenia. While communist leaders in the West Bengal government keep making market-friendly noises, their trade union comrades refuse to step out of their Marxian dreamscape. “It is not m.. (full story) | | |
| Left hates Hindus more than it hates America Ravi Shanker Kapoor Leftwing intellectuals hate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi more than they hate America. This becomes obvious from their criticism of the Manmohan Singh government for its stand against the US government on the visa issue. The US government d.. (full story) | |
| Confront Paswan’s casteism Ravi Shanker Kapoor The only thing more depressing than Steel Minister Ram Vilas Paswan’s casteist politics is the pusillanimity of businessmen. He keeps threatening the businessmen of introducing reservations for scheduled castes (SCs) and scheduled tribes (STs) in th.. (full story) | | |
| Intellectuals oppose rule of law Ravi Shanker Kapoor Why is it that our intellectuals hate any policy and programme that is in consonance with commonsense and prudence? A number of them are expressing their opposition to the Maharashtra government’s drive to remove slums in Bombay. Needless to say, th.. (full story) | |
| Chidambaram wants to return to command economy days Ravi Shanker Kapoor The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is baring its fangs by empowering taxmen to extract maximum revenue from businessmen. The recent proposal of the finance ministry’s to arm the excise authorities with powers to provisionally attach assets, .. (full story) | | |
| Acess denied to Modi: Liberal claptrap unnerves Bush administration Ravi Shanker Kapoor The decision of the United States government to deny visa to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is as impolitic as it is silly and hypocritical. The US denial of Modi’s diplomatic visa was under Section 214 (b) of its Immigration & Nationality A.. (full story) | |
| UPA sure to annoy Rice Ravi Shanker Kapoor US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s visit has offered us to catapult the ties between the two countries into a trajectory beneficial to both countries. But the Indian government will do its utmost to squander this opportunity and will do everything it.. (full story) | | |
| Patently perfidious behavior of BJP Ravi Shanker Kapoor The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has reacted in a most irresponsible manner on the issue of the Patents (Amendment) Bill. Though it claims to be a nationalist party, its behavior on the issue betrays a cavalier attitude towards national interests. | |
| RSS shows anti-English insanity Ravi Shanker Kapoor It is time some research was done to examine the pathology of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), especially the Sangh’s penchant for alienating its own constituency. The recent anti-English stance of the RSS’ just highlights this fact. .. (full story) | | |
| PC fools industry, media, reformers Ravi Shanker Kapoor The only thing more depressing than the budget in the economic field was the reaction of industry, media, and our reformers to the budget. It seemed that everybody was eager to please Finance Minister P Chidambaram. The predicament of businessmen .. (full story) | |
| UPA messes up in Nepal Ravi Shanker Kapoor The ingenuity that our political class shows in hurting the national interest is matched only by its foolhardiness. In its reaction to the Nepal crisis, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government showcased its propensity to sacrifice India’s vital i.. (full story) | | |
| L K Advani: The Rusted Iron Man Ravi Shanker Kapoor Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has justly lambasted Leader of the Opposition LK Advani for his pretensions of being the avatar of Sardar Patel, the original Iron Man of India. The occasion was debate in Parliament in which Advani ridiculed Singh of .. (full story) | |
| Chidambaram specializes in finding excuses Ravi Shanker Kapoor If there were some award on finding excuses and fooling people, Finance Minister P Chidambaram would surely have won that. In the recent budget, he has offered a large number of excuses to divert the people’s attention from his incompetence. And he has su.. (full story) | | |
| Sonia seeks scapegoats Ravi Shanker Kapoor Sonia Gandhi has failed miserably in her political calculations and Machiavellian tactics. While she overestimated the strength of her party in Bihar and Jharkhand, she grossly undervalued the democratic ethic in Indian polity. The widespread indi.. (full story) | |
| Chidambaram tries to fool nation with his budget Ravi Shanker Kapoor Finance Minister P Chidambaram succeeded in fooling most people for some time by his budget 2005-06 speech. But, with the fine print being carefully scrutinized by experts, gloss has started wearing away. Statistics, they say, is like a bikini: wh.. (full story) | | |
| UPA govt’s triple-speak Ravi Shanker Kapoor When there are two economists, they say, three views emanate from them. But when the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government comes up with three statements, three hundred meanings can be read in them. The Economic Survey (2004-05) and the Presidentia.. (full story) | |
| Presidential address: An exercise in banality Ravi Shanker Kapoor President APJ Abdul Kalam’s address to Parliament on the commencement of the budget session was full of clichés, banality, and disingenuousness that we have come to expect from the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. “My Government is co.. (full story) | | |
| Bush seeks Old Europe’s friendship Ravi Shanker Kapoor US President George Bush has sought a “strong friendship” between North America and Europe, as it “is essential to peace and prosperity across the globe.” However, for a positive reciprocation of this gesture, the mindset of European leadership has to cha.. (full story) | |
| Sonia torpedoes Bombay’s development projects Ravi Shanker Kapoor Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s veto to stop the slum clearance drive in Bombay highlights her disdain for the rule of law and economic reforms. This move will surely enthuse the demagogic elements in her party. And reformers will be scared of snub from.. (full story) | | |
| The industry of crying wolf Ravi Shanker Kapoor One of the fastest growing sectors in India is the industry of crying wolf. Be it liberalization, privatization, or foreign direct investment (FDI), our intellectuals start screaming of surrender of economic sovereignty and paint grim scenarios. Their lat.. (full story) | |
| Valentine’s Day and saffron pathology Ravi Shanker Kapoor The Hindu nationalist parties seem to be determined to relegating themselves to oblivion. The continuing, and now embarrassing, hostility to the celebration of Valentine’s Day underlines the doggedness of Shiv Sena and Sangh Parivar to discredit themselve.. (full story) | | |
| Ordinance against ITC: Govt's extortionist methods Ravi Shanker Kapoor The promulgation of an ordinance by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government to overrule the Supreme Court's judgment in the Rs 803-crore ITC excise case has clearly shown that the Indian state is essentially predatory. It has also proved be.. (full story) | |
| How BJP betrayed Hindus Ravi Shanker Kapoor The very existence of Bangladesh’s religious and ethnic minorities is threatened. They are facing complete elimination, said Sitangshu Guha, international coordinator of the Bangladesh Hindu, Buddhist, & Christian Unity Council (BHBCUC). She is qu.. (full story) | | |
| Attack on Geelani: Professional protesters expose themselves Ravi Shanker Kapoor A big problem with professional revolutionaries is they think that the people’s credulity matches the absurdity of outlandish radical theories. In the wake of the attack on SAR Geelani, the wild allegations hurled at Delhi Police by intellectuals and civi.. (full story) | |
| NAC’s tribal welfare programme: Remedy worse than malady Ravi Shanker Kapoor Faulty diagnosis leads to perilous medication. Once again this truism will be positively verified if the proposed legislation, tentatively called the Scheduled Tribes & Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill, comes into being. What ma.. (full story) | | |
| Devil quoting scriptures Ravi Shanker Kapoor Look who’s talking. Reacting to the foreign direct investment (FDI) hike in the telecom sector from 49 per cent to 74 per cent, Communist Party of India general secretary AB Bardhan said on Thursday that the Left parties would observe February 7 as a day .. (full story) | |
| Red star over India Ravi Shanker Kapoor A specter is haunting India, the specter of communism. While the mainstream communist parties are dictating terms in New Delhi, their more radical brethren are not only playing havoc in Andhra Pradesh but also aspiring to create a Red corridor from the so.. (full story) | | |
| Say no to reservations in private sector Ravi Shanker Kapoor The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government continues to confuse businessmen and common people on the issue of reservations in the private sector. Typically, a minister announces that the government is committed to ensuring quotas in the private sect.. (full story) | |
| Can reforms be without human face? Ravi Shanker Kapoor One of the unfortunate consequences of the installation of the communist-supported Congress-led regime in New Delhi is the popularization of a rotten slogan: “economic reforms with a human face.” Hardly a day passes when a United Progressive Alliance (UPA.. (full story) | | |
| Whither Left Theory? Ravi Shanker Kapoor The trend of Indian companies acquiring firms in other countries seems to be picking up. The auto component major, Amtek, this week announced plans to buy out the UK-based Sigma Cast Group. This will be Amtek’s second acquisition in the UK. A few days ear.. (full story) | |
| From Gambler to Munnabhai, MBBS Ravi Shanker Kapoor Once upon a time, forests were green, women were beautiful, and men were chivalrous and heroic. But in this postmodern era, forests have been plundered, women drive SUVs, men go to beauty parlors, and chivalry is dead. And heroism has degenerated into pun.. (full story) | | |
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| From emancipation to empowerment: A hazardous journey Ravi Shanker Kapoor With political correctness spreading like a plague in the country, many dangerous ideals are being ardently promoted by the intellectual class-the ideals whose virtues are imaginary rather than real, .. (full details) | ||
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