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BJP’s 2014 mandate is near its expiry date. Modi magic didn’t work in Karnataka

Vir Sanghvi - 18 May, 2023

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Tharoors and Shabana Azmis took a classic liberal stand on ‘Kerala Story’. They must rethink

Modi isn’t Manmohan, it’ll take more than a media frenzy to fire Brij Bhushan

It’s hard to be optimistic about Congress. Easier to praise leaders like Tejashwi Yadav

Be horrified by reaction to Atiq Ahmed killing. But stop calling Indians bloodthirsty fools

Vir Sanghvi - 20 April, 2023

The public has lost faith in the ability of the legal system. It is convinced that because powerful criminals will never face justice, it is easier and quicker to bump them off.

No, Covid vaccines didn’t cause those heart attacks. Don’t let hysteria win

Vir Sanghvi - 13 April, 2023

The pandemic was such a traumatic period, full of death and desolation that most of us have blacked it out. We forget about the panic and misinformation.

Deleting history from NCERT textbooks is lying to children. It’s also betraying parents

Vir Sanghvi - 6 April, 2023

The intention behind rewriting textbooks is to make children grow up with the view that Muslims are the enemy. And that they have no place in India.

BJP has done a huge favour to Rahul Gandhi — gifted him his lost credibility

+TFP Vir Sanghvi - 30 March, 2023

The attempt to get Rahul thrown out of the Lok Sabha over his remarks in the UK and the disqualification suggest that BJP is worried about him.

Prashant Kishor is right. Modi’s nationalist pitch makes him undefeatable, not Hindutva

Vir Sanghvi - 23 March, 2023

Easy for intellectuals to laugh at Modi's nationalist claims. But it is silly to dismiss them. Because the truth is that this strategy is working.

Indian journalists should be grateful BBC lost the ‘impartiality’ battle

Vir Sanghvi - 16 March, 2023

BBC's impartiality trait that it showed during Modi documentary went in hiding when football presenter Gary Lineker tweeted against British govt's immigration policy.

BJP is obsessed with Nehru, freedom struggle. This keeps Rahul Gandhi in the news forever

Vir Sanghvi - 9 March, 2023

People who vote for the BJP support it because they admire Narendra Modi. Nobody votes for the BJP because of anything that occurred in the freedom struggle.

BJP is turning Indians indifferent and sceptical toward corruption

Vir Sanghvi - 2 March, 2023

When Indians see opposition leaders being raided and arrested such as Manish Sisodia was recently, they know this is just political warfare, not a blow for integrity in public life.

Alia Bhatt is another Indian victim who lost the privacy war. Spammers, paparazzi have won

Vir Sanghvi - 23 February, 2023

Whether it's Alia Bhatt being secretly photographed at her home or common citizens being scammed, we have all lost the battle against being treated as commodities.