Guest Post by RAVI SINHA …it takes an error to father a sin. ─ J. Robert Oppenheimer[1] Future historians of India may well describe the past year as a year of political sin. This was the year in which the man who had earlier presided over the Gujarat Carnage was awarded the ultimate prize. The … More The Sin and the Error : Ravi Sinha
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Arvind Kejriwal is the new Sachin Tendulkar. You throw him the most difficult googly and he sweeps it to add runs for his century. In 2011, he started a national anti-corruption movement with the specific aim of setting up an anti-corruption ombudsman called Lokpal. The movement’s public face and leader was Anna Hazare, a respected … More Arvind Kejriwal, master-blaster
There is nothing novel about new parties upsetting the two-party binary. We have seen that happen through the process of Mandalisation in many states. But all those new parties have come up in the name of one or more identities caste, community, region. The BJP is the Brahmin-Bania party of Hindu nationalism. The BSP is … More Why AAP is the new Congress
Aseem Trivedi is a cartoonist in Kanpur. Or was. He has, for some months, been a full-time activist against internet censorship in India. As 2011 was turning into 2012, the Maharashtra police got his domain registrar to suspend his domain, http://cartoonsagainstcorruption.com, which was in support of the Anna Hazare-led Lokpal movement. His website wasn’t blocked, … More Happy Kapil Sibal’s Day
Guest post by ABHISHEK UPADHYAY Anna Hazare has returned with his protests and fasting. Should the media, particularly news TV, be more circumspect this time? Is it time for the media to learn from the Ramlila Maidan experience in August, or should news channels stick to their earlier editorial line of broadcasting the Anna movement … More News TV – Caught Between an Anna and a Hard Place: Abhishek Upadhyay
Guest post by VRINDA GOPINATH Well, Information and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal’s prickly suggestion to pre-screen content on social networks like Google, Facebook and Twitter, has invited such derision from the internet world that it has given him a tag to his name – Idiot Sibal. For iSibal, it’s not his status on Facebook that should bother … More The Absurd Tyranny of iSibal: Vrinda Gopinath
