134 Articles by

Ashish Shukla

Author of "How United States Shot Humanity", Senior Journalist, TV Presenter

Opinions

Ravish Kumar, Magsaysay award and connecting the dots: The history of Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Magsaysay Award to Ravish Kumar is another piece in this chessboard. A brand has been created as a bulwark against India’s cultural resurgence.

Ashish Shukla - 4 August, 2019

Opinions

History could remember Modi as one who freed Indian Muslim women

Empowering Muslim women could transform the community. It frees them up to express an opinion and seek financial security, gain education and pass on the good word to their kids.

Ashish Shukla - 31 July, 2019

Opinions

Mehbooba Mufti warns India would burn: It is time to call her bluff

If push comes to shove, Modi government is within its Constitutional right to scrap Article 370 and 35A.

Ashish Shukla - 31 July, 2019

Opinions

RTI Amendment Bill 2019 and the fake charade of Shashi Tharoor

All this outrage by Shashi Tharoor and his likes for defining the terms and salaries of Information Commissioners as per the RTI Act?

Ashish Shukla - 27 July, 2019

Opinions

The Media and the questions it never asked Arvind Kejriwal

Since our newspapers don’t ask a few simple questions to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, could we the readers pose a few?

Ashish Shukla - 18 July, 2019

Opinions

Karnataka now, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan tomorrow: Who saves Congress?

Critics are bemused, fans dismayed as Congress goes on a political ventilator. Vital organs (top leaders) and arteries (regional leaders) are giving up. Deep coma of a few decades, beckon. Can it survive?

Ashish Shukla - 15 July, 2019

Opinions

Porn is bigger than Amazon or Netflix and that’s a cause for worry

Porn is one of those words which have a totally different meaning to me now than when I was in my 20s and I guess it’s true to most of the 1970s generation.

Ashish Shukla - 14 July, 2019

Government and Policy

Why Smriti Irani deserves our respect for Child Pornography Bill

Paedophilia, or to treat children as sex objects, is rampant around you and please don’t be disgusted by the suggestion. And this is exactly wht Smriti Irani needs to be hailed for the Child Pornography Bill.

Ashish Shukla - 12 July, 2019

Politics