Ashish Shukla

Indian Express can’t expect its readers—and I am one—to be polite any longer, especially, after its Pehlu Khan reportage

The latest bit is Dr Singh’s refusal to accept the trimmed numbers of his personal staff to five—two each personal assistants and peons and one lower-division clerk—against the 14 he perceives is his right.

A new report—“Religious Persecution in the United States”--has burned Uncle Sam at the stake of religious discrimination on its land over the centuries.

Every anniversary of Emergency in India (June 25, 1975) and worn-out clichés on muzzling media, despotic Indira, state repression and the complicity of judiciary begin to do rounds.

It’s only incidental that all the names who have had faux pas on Hindi are from Congress party.

I expect a political storm over Leila, a six-part TV serial on Netflix, the first season of which went on air last week.

We all know that the adherents of Islam are 1.20 billion in the world. That majority of them are peaceful. That only 10-15%, or a few million it is, who cause horror. But this number is enough to bring the liberal world to a staggering halt.

If you were to ask the majority of this country if they want “One Nation, One Poll” the answer would be an overwhelming yes.

Millions of Indians today would term West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is arrogant.

Pinaryi Vijayan’s Left government (LDF) in Kerala uses its two hands differently: One wears a velvet glove for Christians and Muslims; the other a baton for Hindus.