Ravi Shanker Kapoor
Getting It Right
Ravi Shanker Kapoor is a journalist and author. He has spent around 25 years in the media. As a freelance journalist, Kapoor has written for a number of leading publications. He has written four books on Indian politics and its associated institutions.
On his 200th birth anniversary, Karl Marx continues to haunt us
Karl Marx was one of the greatest thinkers ever born; however, the adjective 'greatest' here doesn't connote the beneficent aspects of his theories; instead it refers to the impact his philosophy o
In their blindness, there is no difference between Asaram bhakts and Leftists
On the face of it, the indignation of Asaram Bapu's followers over his conviction in the Jodhpur rape case may appear enigmatic, indeed stupid.
Left-liberal warning in bid to remove Chief Justice of India: If you are not with us...
Can a person disagree with the Left-liberal establishment and still be regarded as good, honourable, and decent?
Mainstreaming the Northeast: What might work, and what might not
As a region, North East has suffered neglect for a very long time. Till recently, every politician talked about the region but it played little role in national politics.
Sleep of reason produces monsters and Bharat bandh
The Bharat Bandh, called by several Dalit groups on Monday against the Supreme Court ruling on the misuse of Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, has proved
The rise of an illiberal India: What the logjam in Parliament shows us
This is the age of decibel and drama. Gone are the days when the eloquence of oratory and the cogency of arguments were lauded in Parliament.
Still wedded to Socialism, Congress has learnt nothing and forgotten nothing
It was said about the Bourbons, the ruling dynasty at the time of the French Revolution (1789), that they had learnt nothing and forgotten nothing.
Mandatory CSR is morally reprehensible, logically repugnant, and economically wasteful
Of all the sins perpetrated by the political class against private enterprise in this century, the most conspicuous and insidious has been mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR).