Columns – Chetan Bhagat

Ukraine's AI-powered war has lessons for India and the world

08-06-2025 Read More →
Why fighting Islamabad isn't worth New Delhi's time

26-05-2025 Read More →
Let's not take Pakistan army's bait and put emotion over reason

04-05-2025 Read More →
The different things the minister & startups got right

12-04-2025 Read More →
Stand up for standups even when you don’t like their comedy

06-04-2025 Read More →
Why can’t Indians fly in style like Singaporeans?

24-03-2025 Read More →
MUGs and Mrs: Phulka patriarchy comes at a cost

09-03-2025 Read More →
Revdis aren't always sweet

27-01-2025 Read More →
Kudos, Bhagwat but RSS could do much more

12-01-2025 Read More →
Kudos, Bhagwat but RSS could do much more

12-01-2025 Read More →
3 Tax Rates for Popcorn, 1 Big Problem for India

25-12-2024 Read More →
Don't DOGE it. India needs to tighten belt too.

23-12-2024 Read More →
How to win after losing big

30-11-2024 Read More →
Tourists Goan with the wind? State needs to wake up and smell the competition

17-11-2024 Read More →
What Haryana election verdict's taught us about Indian voters

20-10-2024 Read More →
More Work ≠ Better Work

05-10-2024 Read More →
How ultrabhakts are going from BJP's asset to biggest headache

22-09-2024 Read More →
Why religion and caste based campaigns are good for India

10-09-2024 Read More →
After this dismal show, should India just give up on Olympics?

25-08-2024 Read More →
Counting castes is all politics, zero policy

19-08-2024 Read More →
Coach runs over dreams

31-07-2024 Read More →
From inept pappu to khatakhat neta, Rahul’s making a comeback

28-07-2024 Read More →
Is BJP in denial?

18-07-2024 Read More →
No NEET answer, but time to make merit matter again

30-06-2024 Read More →
India’s Goldilocks moment?

20-06-2024 Read More →
Pune Porsche case shows the problems of affluenza parenting

02-06-2024 Read More →
India's Undereducated Young

13-05-2024 Read More →
How Indians vote, and why having a strong leader matters so much

28-04-2024 Read More →
As US states consider age-gating social media, India should ponder curbs too

25-03-2024 Read More →
You can’t get rich quick

05-04-2024 Read More →
The fresh faces formula

06-03-2024 Read More →
Spare us the trek! Airports shouldn't just be Insta-worthy, they should be practical

25-02-2024 Read More →
Why opposition can’t bake a cake: There’s no winning within the INDIA alliance. Everyone wants a bigger slice of seats

03-02-2024 Read More →
Move over Maldives: Lakshadweep can give the so-called island paradise fair competition

09-01-2024 Read More →
Three cheers for wine and dine. Now, three ideas to make GIFT city shine

07-01-2024 Read More →
24 predictions for 2024

01-01-2024 Read More →
Hand that doesn’t rock poll cradle

16-12-2023 Read More →
From best friend to foe: Canine terror can't continue unchecked

10-12-2023 Read More →
Do it like the men in blue

18-11-2023 Read More →
“70-hour workweek? Stop counting hours and make the hours count,”

05-11-2023 Read More →
While the Gaze is on Gaza: The last two weeks since Hamas’s brutal attack have shown that it is upon Israel to recognise that only in Palestinian well-being can it find real long-lasting security

21-10-2023 Read More →
Cricket should not overshadow achievements in other sports

08-10-2023 Read More →
NDA Vs INDIA: SWOT analysis

30-09-2023 Read More →
INDIA is a good start, but does it have a PLAN for 2024?

10-09-2023 Read More →
Too few seats for the Kotas

29-08-2023 Read More →
GDP aspirations are great but our ugly Indian cities need an urgent makeover

13-08-2023 Read More →
How much hate is too much?

29-07-2023 Read More →
Influencers suck joy out of travel, hospitality, one reel at a time

16-07-2023 Read More →
How Byju's got away for so long

03-07-2023 Read More →
Sam Altman isn’t totally wrong. Five reasons why India lags in innovation.

18-06-2023 Read More →
How to dance in democracy: In an era where most people have already made up their mind about how they shall vote in the next Lok Sabha elections, how can BJP (favourites) and Congress (featherweight) woo voters?

03-06-2023 Read More →
The 5 Points That Won Karnataka For Congress

18-05-2023 Read More →
Yes, kids are born digital: Where they need adult help is in fighting digital addiction. Because the neurochemistry of excessive smartphone usage is the same as that of narcotic drugs

06-05-2023 Read More →
Hey West, can we get visas minus the pain and humiliation please?

30-04-2023 Read More →
The World Happiness Report: beautiful, data-crunching nonsense

04-04-2023 Read More →
Lessons for India’s banking sector from SVB collapse

26-03-2023 Read More →
The real AIpocalypse: It’s not colonisation by the machines but by Western algorithms that India needs to ward off – with our own hardware, software, chips and large language models

11-03-2023 Read More →
Is it time for Pakistan to return to the motherland?

26-02-2023 Read More →
Don’t surprise me: In praise of the quality of stability – Five ways in which this budget should be emulated by future budgets

11-02-2023 Read More →
Lesson from layoffs: Don’t fall in love with office, and save like crazy when you can

29-01-2023 Read More →
Stop. Cancel your hill holiday: Do Mother Nature this favour. Too much tourism has stripped the beauty from our mountain towns

14-01-2023 Read More →
5 steps to fix our airports. PS: It’s not rocket science

01-01-2023 Read More →
India 2023: 4 new year resolutions: Housing one-sixth of humanity, the country must give its people a dignified standard of living in a peaceful society, with opportunities to grow and freedoms to live life the way they want

30-12-2022 Read More →
Six things to learn from BJP: You can critique the party but you should acknowledge what it is doing right

17-12-2022 Read More →
Bullish on India: Six things we did right in 2022

04-12-2022 Read More →
Crypto is now dead: FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange, collapsed last week, proving a lot of cool guys horribly wrong

15-11-2022 Read More →
Less malice, more manners : Wishlist for the new twitter

06-11-2022 Read More →
The frail maths of hunger: Global Hunger Index’s data crunching has numerous problems. But GoI’s own data is far from perfect

22-10-2022 Read More →
Even a moderately successful Tharoor can change Cong forever

16-10-2022 Read More →
Don’t quiet quit. Do quiet work: If you don’t like your job or colleagues, change these instead of your own performance

23-09-2022 Read More →
Why we need to treat domestic help better

11-09-2022 Read More →
How to win over Indians: Begin with a non-judgmental grasp of their most common features – here are 7 key ones

26-08-2022 Read More →
Why Bollywood must wake up and watch some YouTube

21-08-2022 Read More →
The exodus is rational: Don’t judge Indian students going abroad. Fix the system problems that are driving them out

29-07-2022 Read More →
Religion over region, and four other big trends in Indian politics

17-07-2022 Read More →
Four years a soldier: Many of our young have no agni and aren’t veer. Let’s motivate them to be more than cellphone junkies

03-07-2022 Read More →
Beware of the ‘bad’ social media influencer who polarizes to rise

19-06-2022 Read More →
Mosques + Temples = Mosples: Controversies like Gyanvapi can be avoided if Hindus and Muslims together celebrate their conjoined past

03-06-2022 Read More →
One nation, two (maybe three) elections has many merits

22-05-2022 Read More →
They’re locked down, we aren’t: Indian manufacturing has a huge China-made opportunity but it’s open for only a brief period

06-05-2022 Read More →
Why & how to save Congress: The party represents a valuable political ideology but voters know it doesn’t reward talent

12-04-2022 Read More →
War as reality TV: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine holds five cold, hard lessons for your nation and you

13-03-2022 Read More →
The gut-wrenching Kashmiri Pandit story needed to be told — and seen

27-03-2022 Read More →
How the Indian judiciary can get out of the tareekh-pe-tareekh mode

27-02-2022 Read More →
Little do they know us: Why the English-speaking elite’s advice is the kiss of death for businesses, books, politicians

11-02-2022 Read More →
Why the public wooing of Musk is a welcome change

06-02-2022 Read More →
Happy new decade … Because 2020 and 2021 didn’t count. And here’s how we can make the best of this year

16-01-2022 Read More →
Wishlist for the budget: FinMin should think bold – from simpler tax rules to creating Dubai-like cities

15-01-2022 Read More →
Foot off the brakes! Eight ideas to help India become a $5 trillion economy

05-12-2021 Read More →
Let’s recognise that Modi tried hard: Decoding the political economy of repealing farm laws

20-11-2021 Read More →
Fixing Kashmir – Phase 2: GoI’s next priority is to create jobs and make the Valley understand a better life is possible

18-12-2021 Read More →
Hate smug liberals? But don’t hate secularism just because they like it

07-11-2021 Read More →
Don’t take 20 years next time: Privatisation of Air India deserves praise but GoI needs to learn from it, and do more

23-10-2021 Read More →
Congress High Command suggestions (that will be ignored)

10-10-2021 Read More →
Sarkar’s reform mode: Our politics doesn’t matter, every move to increase prosperity must be welcomed

24-09-2021 Read More →
Asset monetisation has good intent but making it work will need more than that

11-09-2021 Read More →
India’s tuition pandemic: Why is China cracking down on edtech? We face the same problem but must find a different solution

27-08-2021 Read More →
Congrats to athletes but Olympics is no place to look for national validation

14-08-2021 Read More →
What should Hindus want? India’s best asset is its modern democracy, not one community dominating others

31-07-2021 Read More →
Let’s put aside vaccine nationalism and penny-pinching. Mission 70% is No 1 priority

17-07-2021 Read More →
Indians not allowed. How come? Global travel bans on Indians are illogical, and may be reflective of prejudice

03-07-2021 Read More →
Change is unsettling, but don’t oppose Central Vista without looking at its pluses

19-06-2021 Read More →
Global vaccine apartheid: It is a blot on the human race, and Covax is too feeble a remedy

04-06-2021 Read More →
3 mistakes of the pandemic, and lessons from it

23-05-2021 Read More →
Vaccinate, at any cost: The first step to controlling the Covid surge is understanding where we went wrong

08-05-2021 Read More →
How pseudoscience is coming in the way of India tackling the pandemic

25-04-2021 Read More →
How to ramp up vaccinations: At present, Covid is outpacing the rate of vaccination. This needs to change

09-04-2021 Read More →
Wanted: A bill to fix Indian manufacturing

27-03-2021 Read More →
Covid-19’s hidden lesson: Lose weight to be safer from it, and from many other ailments as well

12-03-2021 Read More →
Why IAS needs to change to IES in name and spirit to propel India forward

27-02-2021 Read More →
Global brands, Indian farms: Listen to those who actually work on farm reforms, not just twerk

12-02-2021 Read More →
Face it, world. India has tackled Covid better than most advanced nations

31-01-2021 Read More →
When emotions Trump reason: Indians should pay heed to lessons of US Capitol attack, when unchecked emotions erupted

15-01-2021 Read More →
Paying every Indian 5,000 can be the fiscal fix to make 2021 really happy

02-01-2021 Read More →
Power of the status quo: On the new farming laws: Why change is scary (but we must still do it)

18-12-2020 Read More →
The great Indian Covid vaccine challenge is ahead. Let’s start planning for it.

06-12-2020 Read More →
Managing India’s hard right: Extraordinarily loyal to BJP, it’s also destroying the NDA government’s economic legacy

21-11-2020 Read More →
The four reasons why Indian liberals are a fast-disappearing species

08-11-2020 Read More →
The 4Gotten generation: An open letter to India’s youth: Get off that smartphone. It can destroy you

24-10-2020 Read More →
Indians are still living in denial about mental health issues

11-10-2020 Read More →
Liberating Indian farmers: They have always had our sympathy. Now they need something else – choice

26-09-2020 Read More →
The youth need to shut their phones and ask about the economy

13-09-2020 Read More →
Ten practical leadership lessons: Congress offers a crucial management case study: What not to do as a leader

29-08-2020 Read More →
Yeh dil not maange more: Indians are less aspirational than we think

16-08-2020 Read More →
A vaccine for the economy: India can easily convert the corona crisis into an opportunity. Here’s how

03-08-2020 Read More →
Let not young India’s hopes, aspirations die with Sushant

19-07-2020 Read More →
Get peace in return: ‘Face’ is very important in China. Allow the Chinese to save face

04-07-2020 Read More →
How to survive cut-throat Bollywood? The best advice came from Rahman

21-06-2020 Read More →
To fix economy, change mindset: Moody’s and other assessments of India’s economic outlook must set alarm bells ringing

06-06-2020 Read More →
Those convoluted govt circulars show what’s wrong with Indian babudom

24-05-2020 Read More →
A poor way of thinking: Poverty compounds India’s corona suffering. Governments never fix this core problem

09-05-2020 Read More →
The question confronting us: What’s the cost of saving lives?

26-04-2020 Read More →
Dealing with corona anxiety: A surfeit of information is fuelling the panic around the disease

11-04-2020 Read More →
Corona lockdown is needed but it might put the economy on ventilator

29-03-2020 Read More →
School assignment, circa 2070: The wild, wild India of 2020 AD: When our grandparents talked only Hindu-Muslim

14-03-2020 Read More →
Why a prosperous, harmonious Hindu Rashtra is an impossibility

01-03-2020 Read More →
Making AAP national again: This time around, Arvind Kejriwal might conceivably be able to pull it off

15-02-2020 Read More →
Immigrants or business, mentality needs to change

02-02-2020 Read More →
Why NRC must be shelved: It will be an expensive, gargantuan, pointless exercise that could trigger civil war in the worst case

18-01-2020 Read More →
Let this be India’s goal for this decade — $5,000 per capita income by 2030

05-01-2020 Read More →
The yes man problem: On a host of issues, BJP doesn’t encourage independent opinion within the party

21-12-2019 Read More →
Govt may toss aside corporate critics but there are two things it needs to reflect on

08-12-2019 Read More →
It’s not black and white: If you really care about secularism in India, understand both Hindus and Muslims

23-11-2019 Read More →
For a solution to Delhi pollution, let’s start by renaming it ‘north Indian haze’

17-11-2019 Read More →
For Congress to revive: Pressure to reform needs to come from outside the party

26-10-2019 Read More →
Enough with the Pak obsession. True patriotism isn’t about bashing others

13-10-2019 Read More →
Double the growth rate: Here are six doable, practical and quick ways to get to 10% GDP growth

28-09-2019 Read More →
Too many taxes, anti-rich mindset need to go for economy to be back on its feet

15-09-2019 Read More →
Restoring normalcy in Kashmir: How to take J&K to the point where the internet need never be blocked again

31-08-2019 Read More →
India’s discuss-until-death culture is giving way to a ‘just do it’ approach

18-08-2019 Read More →
India’s anti-vocation mindset: There’s more honour in having useful skills than pointless honours degrees

05-08-2019 Read More →
With Gandhis sulking, Cong family drama is taking a toll on our democracy

21-07-2019 Read More →
Furore over languages: National Education Policy is an excellent document which needs encouragement, not politics

09-07-2019 Read More →
Don’t make doctors the fall guy for India’s poor healthcare

23-06-2019 Read More →
Jet Airways, long goodbye: Sweet uncles who run our PSU banks at least acted faster than they did for Kingfisher

11-05-2019 Read More →
Without Rahul’s exit, Cong can’t become the strong opposition that India needs

02-06-2019 Read More →
The long wait for May 23 may end in a surprise verdict

05-05-2019 Read More →
A little bit of NYAY: Congress’s welfare scheme is morally ambiguous, fiscally ruinous and impractical

13-04-2019 Read More →
Why our three biggest job creators are not creating enough jobs

07-04-2019 Read More →
War and family fights: Our domestic disputes can go on, but we should unite in the face of the external enemy

16-03-2019 Read More →
The Priyanka factor: She has already attracted cameras, time she took over the mikes

18-02-2019 Read More →
The Priyanka factor: She has already attracted cameras, time she took over the mikes

18-02-2019 Read More →
The budget we need: Here are nine steps that the government should announce on February 1

19-01-2019 Read More →
BJP’s political misstep: Optics of the Rafale defence deal is terrible, no matter what its merits

29-09-2018 Read More →
My GDP bigger than yours: Thanks to release of back series for economic growth, netas finally debate relevant issues

01-09-2018 Read More →
Centre needs to stop acting like Robin Hood and move fuel to GST

16-09-2018 Read More →
Being human in Assam: India can’t strip the citizenship of people who have built a life here for 47 years

04-08-2018 Read More →
Relieve choked metro cities: How government can use tax policy to spread wealth and jobs around India

07-07-2018 Read More →
BJP beware! Don’t take EVs (enlightened voters) lightly

22-07-2018 Read More →
2019 slogan: Ab ki baar, kya pata kiski sarkaar!

24-06-2018 Read More →
BJP’s green chilli recipe: Too much Hindutva in the menu burns customers and makes them flee

09-06-2018 Read More →
Romancing the stone: It is time to recognise stone pelting for what it is, a serious crime

12-05-2018 Read More →
Lesson No. 1 from Karnataka: There’s no ethics in politics, stupid

27-05-2018 Read More →
Wanted: A lighter shade of saffron & a course

13-05-2018 Read More →
Fixing the Indian bus: Unless the system is reformed, changing governments or leaders won’t help

17-03-2018 Read More →
ICICI’s handling of Chanda Kochhar is an excellent illustration of India’s national and corporate failings

19-04-2018 Read More →
More jobs, please! Indian youth don’t want to be just pakodawallas

01-04-2018 Read More →
Wanted: A swachh mission for banks to stop NiMos

04-03-2018 Read More →
If BJP lets the fringe run amok, it risks losing the software types

04-02-2018 Read More →
How to fix Aadhaar: In their pell-mell drive for growth, the card issuers have compromised quality

20-01-2018 Read More →
What the 2G non-scam tells us about India’s don’t-care attitude to corruption

07-01-2018 Read More →
Gujarat’s perfect verdict: How Gujaratis managed to get both BJP and Congress back on their toes

23-12-2017 Read More →
Self-goals a bigger threat to BJP than opponent Rahul

10-12-2017 Read More →
Where is our chai? Among other national crises this one is equally dire: A flood of mediocre machine tea

25-11-2017 Read More →
Rahul’s tweets have tadka but 2019 needs a solid main course

12-11-2017 Read More →
Cracking the GST puzzle: It’s a modern reform implemented with archaic sarkari attitude, here are five ways to set it right

28-10-2017 Read More →
3.5-year itch: Don’t let 2014 euphoria turn into despair

22-10-2017 Read More →
Rohingya are human, too: How we can deal with persecuted refugees and still keep India safe

30-09-2017 Read More →
How Congress dropped six sitters it should have caught

17-09-2017 Read More →
Blame it on the rain: Till we begin to take responsibility, Mumbai will always drown in heavy showers

02-09-2017 Read More →
Govt is bad at running hospitals. Let’s have Modicare instead

20-08-2017 Read More →
Lights! Camera! Crisis! Advancing technology and borderline government hostility bring bure din to Bollywood

05-08-2017 Read More →
‘Look, I’m so secular!’ The rise of virtue signallers on social media

23-07-2017 Read More →
Sell Air India for one rupee: Right now it’s a giant black hole relentlessly sucking in taxpayer money

08-07-2017 Read More →
Jab they meet: What Trump may tell Modi

25-06-2017 Read More →
Terrorism and extremitis: To halt terrorism, we must avoid stepping into the polarisation trap set by it

13-06-2017 Read More →
28% GST? At this rate, India’s movie biz will be a flop show

28-05-2017 Read More →
Three lessons from AAP’s loss: Stay good, whine less and work more

30-04-2017 Read More →
Official India hates fun: Before we ban something outright, we should think consequences and global standards

15-04-2017 Read More →
Why we need a Ram Temple in Ayodhya

02-04-2017 Read More →
Is Modi 2019 a done deal?

18-03-2017 Read More →
What out-of-control Delhi University colleges can learn from uncool IITs

05-03-2017 Read More →
Bite this Apple: India manufacturing the iPhone would be a great advertisement for ‘Make in India’

18-02-2017 Read More →
Budget for grownups: This year was about clear strategy, not endless tinkering

05-02-2017 Read More →
On a Delhi winter evening: A dinner conversation that ought to happen over daal and pasta (but probably won’t)

21-01-2017 Read More →
How blind bhakts can actually hurt India’s democracy

08-01-2017 Read More →
The 3 new I’s of Indian politics – Intention, Initiative and Ideas: Netas do not require anything more in a post-truth environment

24-12-2016 Read More →
Anthem order: Intention’s good but imposition isn’t

11-12-2016 Read More →
How media pundits created a sympathy wave for Trump

13-11-2016 Read More →
The Great Opinion Wars: How privileged influencers and aspirational India are locked in a battle to mould opinion.

29-10-2016 Read More →
Uri changed one thing: India is never going to compare itself with Pak

16-10-2016 Read More →
What the shattered AAP dream tells us about ourselves

18-09-2016 Read More →
The Parable Of PK: Having a loud, indecent neighbour calls for out-of-the-box solutions

03-09-2016 Read More →
Will you spend Rs 80 to see India win a dozen Olympic golds?

21-08-2016 Read More →
How to tackle radical Islam: The more we have dictatorships in the name of religion, the more global terrorism will persis

06-08-2016 Read More →
Why US media got Trump so wrong, and the right lesson we can learn from it

24-07-2016 Read More →
The Only Gandhi Left: To play to win, Congress can make this audacious move with Priyanka Gandhi

09-07-2016 Read More →
‘Sanskaari’ Nihalani doing BJP no favours. Send him packing

26-06-2016 Read More →
How to tax with love: Ten ways the income tax department can reform itself to get taxpayer buy-in

11-06-2016 Read More →
How to deny BJP a cakewalk in Election 2019

29-05-2016 Read More →
The power of rumour: Modi’s degree controversy, Obama’s birth and the paranoid style in politics

14-05-2016 Read More →
The GST bill is like a cricket match that India needs to win

01-05-2016 Read More →
Letter to Kashmiri youth: Even if you don’t like India, here’s why your best bet is to integrate J&K with it

16-04-2016 Read More →
This is Sonia’s chance to be Bharat Mata, and not just Rahul ki mata

03-04-2016 Read More →
Shorts first, soul next?

19-03-2016 Read More →
‘Suit-boot sarkar’ doesn’t want rest suited & booted

06-03-2016 Read More →
We are all anti-nationals: The equation D+M>H explains Indian politics, but D+M+H is a better combo

20-02-2016 Read More →
Budget T-20: Modi the masterblaster must go for the big hit

07-02-2016 Read More →
Indian institutes of politics: Lack of autonomy for universities is a killer, literally so in Rohith Vemula’s case

23-01-2016 Read More →
Free Basics may not be totally on the Mark but don’t trash it

10-01-2016 Read More →
The 3 Ds Of Indian Politics: What the masses crave from their leaders — Drama, Drama and Development

26-12-2015 Read More →
Why the Delhi government’s odd-even scheme is rather odd

13-12-2015 Read More →
Fifty shades of intolerance

28-11-2015 Read More →
To get poll maths right, BJP needs to remember three numbers

15-11-2015 Read More →
Anatomy of a ‘liberal’: Indian liberals do not offer solutions, they use the term as a class marker

02-11-2015 Read More →
Too many holy cows, let’s just stop mixing religion and law

18-10-2015 Read More →
Creaming the people: Caste-based reservations need to be recast for the sake of a fairer society

03-10-2015 Read More →
It’s time to analyze OROP with our head, not our heart

20-09-2015 Read More →
Flying kisses, angry grunts: Stop happy-angry dance between India and Pakistan, invade them with culture

05-09-2015 Read More →
In these san-sad times, call a virtual session of Parliament.

23-08-2015 Read More →
Hypocritical and impractical: With the porn ban, the government has flaunted its control freak instincts

08-08-2015 Read More →
Indian Institute of autonomy: Don’t kill a model that works

26-07-2015 Read More →
Anatomy of an internet troll: How social media birthed a strange new phenomenon in India, the bhakts

11-07-2015 Read More →
Netas, do us a favour. Don’t swap favours

28-06-2015 Read More →
Junk food’s siren appeal

13-06-2015 Read More →
Scored low in exams? Some life lessons from a 76 percenter

31-05-2015 Read More →
Bang the table for reforms: For NDA government’s first anniversary, 5 big bang ideas to break the stasis

16-05-2015 Read More →
The Tiny Bang Theory for setting off big-bang reforms

03-05-2015 Read More →
Let’s bake in India first: Open up the agriculture sector to help our farmers and our economy

18-04-2015 Read More →
Anatomy of aam aadmi: AAP is far more honest and real today than with the righteous nonsense peddled earlier

21-03-2015 Read More →
A+ complex? Ladies, stop being so hard on yourself

08-03-2015 Read More →
17 commandments for Modi: The country has a stable mandate after a long time, BJP must not blow it

14-02-2015 Read More →
Smug BJP or self-righteous AAP? No matter who wins, it’s time to celebrate

08-02-2015 Read More →
We the half educated people

26-01-2015 Read More →
Scripting change: Bhasha bachao, Roman Hindi apnao

11-01-2015 Read More →
It’s not moderate Muslims’ fault

27-12-2014 Read More →
Would we ban autos or cycle-rickshaws if a rape occurred in one?

14-12-2014 Read More →
She Can Wear What She Wants Because She Lives in a Free Country Called India

11-12-2014 Read More →
Swachh Congress Abhiyan in four essential steps

16-11-2014 Read More →
Cleanliness begins at home

01-11-2014 Read More →
Maha message for parties: Go get your own Modi

19-10-2014 Read More →
Mangalyaan + unlucky Tuesdays: Indians need to shun superstitions and embrace the scientific spirit

04-10-2014 Read More →
Indian men should channelize their inner Mr Mary Kom

21-09-2014 Read More →
Section 377 is our collective sin

06-09-2014 Read More →
To make ‘Make in India’ happen, delete control

24-08-2014 Read More →
''5 Step plan for the Congress"

03-08-2014 Read More →
Modi’s too safe Budget

12-07-2014 Read More →
Note to nayi sarkar: the honeymoon is going to end soon

29-06-2014 Read More →
First ball has gone for a six but this isn’t IPL, it’s a Test match

01-06-2014 Read More →
And the people's choice is...

17-05-2014 Read More →
Mapping the route to minority success

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