L&T chairman SN Subrahmanyan will survive this controversy because this is India, where we have a ‘chalta-hai’ attitude. In the West, he would have been forced to apologise or resign.
Over the last decade, we have begun to take the stand that even if foreign travellers do not want to come, we don’t really care. Even Indians are increasingly avoiding our tourist destinations.
The notion of Hindu victimhood is largely a 1980s creation, exploited for electoral purposes by LK Advani and passed down, in some garbled form, to the rabble.
If a government knows how to accommodate the fat cats and has worked out how to win the votes of the poor with direct transfers, then it doesn’t need the middle class
The Delhi government accepts that halting construction and reducing vehicular traffic can reduce pollution levels. But these are band-aids hurriedly pasted on gaping, bloody wounds.
When I see Indians getting agitated about Trump's immigration policies I am a little startled. Any country’s citizenship and immigration policies are its own business.
The guidelines ask whether a student can climb stairs, but not whether the college has a ramp. They ask whether a student can bear weight, but not whether the system can bear the weight of its own prejudice.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
Vir absolutely has the right to call out our millionaires. But why does every issue need to be framed with comparisons to ‘the West’? And isn’t the tendency to demand resignations at the slightest provocation more feudal than progressive?
Another good one, Mr. Sanghvi. People like Mr. Subhramanyam are part of the reason why many Indians like me choose to leave India. Why stick around in a place where you are treated like this, when you could live somewhere where your talent and hard work are recognized and rewarded. I will return to India one day, but not before I am in a position to better protect myself from people like him.
In West scoundrels like you, masquerading as SENIOR journalists would have hardly survived.
Very well written Sir…. You have truly echoed our sentiments….Thank you
Vir absolutely has the right to call out our millionaires. But why does every issue need to be framed with comparisons to ‘the West’? And isn’t the tendency to demand resignations at the slightest provocation more feudal than progressive?
Another good one, Mr. Sanghvi. People like Mr. Subhramanyam are part of the reason why many Indians like me choose to leave India. Why stick around in a place where you are treated like this, when you could live somewhere where your talent and hard work are recognized and rewarded. I will return to India one day, but not before I am in a position to better protect myself from people like him.