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Ravi Shanker Kapoor

When arson and violence pass off as protest

June 9, 2020

When US President Donald Trump trashes the mainstream media as fake news and generally slams public intellectuals, does he indulge in reprehensible rhetoric politicians are so prone to? It would be difficult to answer in the affirmative against the backdrop of violent protests in America. The cause of protests is...

Red is not dead

June 1, 2020

When the Soviet Union collapsed about three decades ago, communism declined in other parts of the world, and socialism was undermined by the 1991 reforms in India, it looked like that red was dead. A prominent American author, Francis Fukuyama, even wrote a book The End of History and the...

Big-bang reforms and their arch-enemies

May 26, 2020

The grammar of public discourse has completely gone haywire. Nothing else explains the flak that the Narendra Modi government has been receiving for the fiscally prudent package that it has announced. It is being hauled over the coals for the move — of keeping the purse strings tight despite the...