Ravi Kapoor

Soothing tweets will not assuage the fears of industry

The government is trying to convince industry that the Ministry of Home Affairs’ guidelines are not as stringent as they…

5 years ago

Palghar lynchings show failure at various levels

The Palghar lynching incident, in which three men including two seers were killed, has exposed incompetence in governance at all…

5 years ago

Six reasons why the lockdown extension is bad

The nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus is proving to be a remedy worse than the…

5 years ago

Enjoying the walk and pleasant surroundings

It’s about 9.30 a.m. Monday, April 20. The place is the Hindon river, between Vaishali and Indirapuram in Ghaziabad in…

5 years ago

Is there no disease in our country other than Covid-19?

Health Minister Harsh Vardhan deserves plaudits for arranging the admission of a three-year-old child to the All India Institute of…

5 years ago

Amid corona gloom, there are several small discoveries worth cherishing

Rising global concerns on the vast implications of the Covid-19 outbreak on our future is obvious with anxieties mounting on…

5 years ago

China’s deceit is deplorable; India must up the ante

Even as the Chinese leadership expects New Delhi to help Beijing over the origin of the coronavirus, it continues to…

5 years ago

Leftist virus has taken control of Congress

Last month, Congress leaders were clamoring for a nationwide lockdown to fight Covid-19. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that on…

5 years ago

Rant masquerading as reportage

Many people reporting on India for foreign media can never appreciate anything good in the country. Not even its success…

5 years ago

Media versus people

There was a time, till recently, when the media, including news channels, highlighted the highhandedness of police; it slammed the…

5 years ago

When fear-mongering becomes an industry

Doomsday warnings have always been a good business. A few decades ago, it was AIDS; now it is COVID-19. The…

5 years ago

Relief is good but economic activity is better

<strong>Handouts are temporary measures which strain public finance without helping the economy</strong> That the Narendra Modi government has mobilized it…

5 years ago

How did Tablighis eclipse Nizamuddin?

The prominent journalist Saeed Naqvi (‘Why Tablighis are on a dark and deadly mission,’ https://indianarrative.com/opinion/why-tablighis-are-on-a-dark-and-deadly-mission-266.html) has correctly called the Tablighi…

5 years ago

Lockdown must go, life must go on

India should work towards gradual exit of the 21-day nationwide lockdown, which was announced to check the spread of the…

5 years ago

Free corona testing by private labs a bad idea

The Supreme Court’s order that private medical labs should do free testing for coronavirus cases is unlikely to help government…

5 years ago

India did better by not trusting WHO

India has managed to keep the coronavirus cases and the death toll low primarily because it refused to accept the…

5 years ago

WHO chief should be brought to book

World Health Organization WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’ incompetence and corruption are matched only by his insolence. He is…

5 years ago

Corona crisis unlikely to trigger reforms

<p style="font-weight: 400;">In 1991, India faced an unprecedented crisis, but it responded very well. The government of the day opened…

5 years ago

Economy after corona: Let Keynes rest in peace

<p style="font-weight: 400;">Even as India fights COVID-19, quite successfully by all accounts, post-corona it will have to combat more viruses—those…

5 years ago

Tablighis live in a surreal world

<p style="font-weight: 400;">There is something very odd about Tablighi Jamaat members. Every human being—indeed every creature—has the instinct of self-preservation.…

5 years ago

Jim O’Neill is a useful idiot

<div id="js_k" class="_5pbx userContent _3576" data-testid="post_message" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"> Lenin is said to have coined the term “useful idiot” for the liberals…

5 years ago