Times Now no.1, says Rahul Shivshankar
Q] Can you give us a sense of where the channel stands today with regards to BARC ratings?If I were to compare week 32 to 39 pre-BARC clean up in 2020, with that post it i.e. the last seven weeks of 2022, there is a dramatic difference in the English language news landscape. Then Times […]
Read MoreWhy Blame Botticelli? The eco-ninjas have crossed the line
“WHEN THERE’S NO food, what use is art? When there’s no water, what use is art?” shouted a pair of anti-fossil fuel eco-ninjas who had glued themselves to the frame of The Hay Wain a few weeks ago at the London National Gallery. The painting is an invaluable masterpiece romanticising the pastoral idyllic by the great landscape […]
Read MoreShraddha reached out after Aftab abused her. But did political correctness prevent people from helping?
How does this happen? How does an enterprising, independent, liberated young woman who placed all her faith in one man end up in the refrigerator of their home chopped into 35 different pieces? Some betrayals are so diabolic that they leave you chilled to the bone, too inert to comprehend the meaning of love and […]
Read MoreIf Muslims, Europeans and Blacks can reclaim sacred spaces, why can’t Hindus?
Latest pictures may not reveal this but the Kaaba, the black cube in the centre of Mecca, Islam’s holiest site was once encircled by arched porticos erected 300 years ago by the Ottoman Turks. But in November 2014 these vestiges of Turk rule were pulverized by the Saudi government to make way for the expansion […]
Read MoreWhy aren’t Indian activists marching for Iranian women? Seeing hijab brutally imposed there, makes it harder to defend it as woman’s choice here
In May 2020 George Floyd suffocated to death under the knee of a police officer. Floyd’s pitiful stomach-churning cry “I can’t breathe” soon became a rallying cry for rights activists around the world. It was argued that the cry summed up the predicament of African Americans facing state repression in the US and millions demonstrated […]
Read MoreLeft ecosystem links Islamophobia to NDA’s crackdown on PFI. This is a profound disservice to India’s Muslims
The Popular Front of India (PFI) has been banned for the next 5 years. The only surprise is that the Modi government took as long as it did to take the decision. From its very inception in 2006, the Popular Front of India has worn its “intolerance” on its sleeve. Most of its founding members […]
Read MoreRein-in the ‘sar tan’ brigade. The future of democracy is at stake.
In street after street of old Hyderabad, politicians linked to Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM have been leading mobs chanting an illegal slogan invoked to avenge blasphemy in Islamic republics like Pakistan. Tragically, in thistheatre of obscurantism, children too have been co-opted to chant “gustakh-e-rasool ki ek hi saza, sar tan se juda, sar tan se juda”. It […]
Read MoreIndia’s I-Day celebration is too boringly sarkari: We should learn from Americans how to make it a fun party instead – of the people and by the people
When we turned on the TV first thing yesterday morning, we witnessed Prime Minister Modi unfurling the Tricolour from the ageless ramparts of the Red Fort. Right under the lectern from where he addressed the nation sat the usual array of VVIPs. Protocol officers would have taken extra care to ensure that each dignitary would […]
Read MoreThe Left is wrong. Zubair does not serve the cause of free speech but has imperiled it
ALT NEWS co-founder and self-proclaimed “fact-checker” Mohammed Zubair has been arrested by the Delhi police. Zubair has been charged with hurting religious sentiments and promoting enmity in a tweet that drew the ire of a Hanuman bhakt. Zubair’s arrest has greatly exercised the anti-Modi space. Opposition parties and several known Modi critics have slammed the […]
Read MoreWhere BJP went wrong in the Nupur-Naveen case: Why did GoI speak for party, why bow to Gulf rulers & why try to convince liberals
Now that some time has passed after BJP penalised Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal, we can do a calm-headed analysis. * First, BJP’s actions didn’t convince agitators who protested, in some cases aggressively, the duo’s remarks and asked for more. It was always going to take an act of exceptional atonement to win over a […]
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