Decoding Democracy

What does the term 'liberal' mean exactly? In the current political discourse it is as much a prejorative expression as 'bhakt' and 'secular' are. Those at the Left of the...

  The old, overarching vision of India is collapsing. It is too early to judge whether it is for good or bad. It was a construct powered by the intellectual...

It's outrage time on social media again. This time it is over the arrest of Arnab Goswami by the Maharashtra police in a case involving the suicide of an architect...

Forbearance, a factor critical to sustainability of democracy, is collapsing across the world. Maybe for good reason. Democracies catered to the interests of a few and demanded too much self-restraint...

Trollocracy. Some call it the anarchist's utopia. A few would prefer the word dystopia. But everything in the universe is a matter of perception, isn't it? Actually it's democracy, post-modern...

'Bhakt' is a maligned word in our world. In the current definition, the word refers to a person prone to expressing excessive devotion to the subject of adoration. The devotion...

Hate them as much as you like. Summon the choicest words to describe them - unintelligent, ill-informed, mean, malicious, bhakt, chamcha whatever - but there is no way escaping them....

The stubborn refusal of the Congress top leadership to revive the party is confounding indeed. The recent fracas over a call to action appeal from a section of impatient leaders,...

In our movies many decades ago, the police landed on the scene after the hero was done with his heroics. They always arrived late. The officer, wielding a megaphone, asked...

Is democracy dying? The answer to this depends on whom you ask. The diehard supporters of the current dispensation in India would say it is very much alive and kicking,...