Thank You Mr Modi
This column's caption may be an odd one at a time when we are sparing no platform to condemn the Indian leader's atrocious jingoism; when most of the thinking world…
Mr Modi’s African chromosomes
A well-off Pakistani cousin was putting up at the penthouse of the Montreal hotel where, by a coincidence, her Indian cousin was leading a workers’ strike. As he tiptoed through…
The North Pole beckons Mr Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting five Central Asian countries plus Russia this week and the next. Indian opposition parties have already berated him for what they say are avoidably…
Kapoors of Bollywood meet Modi
“EVERYONE acts every day of their lives,” said Marlon Brando. Think about it. The air hostess acts with her plastic smile. The politician acts with his double-faced lies. The shopkeeper.…
Why Modi claims he has won
FIFTY-SEVEN races are still to be decided on Saturday, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he has already won a thumping majority. Let’s see the mind more than the logic…
Suppose Modi took a DNA test
LEAVE alone Prime Minister Modi’s mindless rant for a moment — and the needlessly craven apology by the Congress party spokesman — over Sam Pitroda’s scientific-spirited but lazily presented comment…
Modi won’t go down sans a fight
MOST neutral observers are sanguine that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is winning a third term. Let’s put it this way, it isn’t a foregone conclusion that Mr Modi is losing…
Nothing coded in Modi’s agenda
THE Uber ride was smooth despite the rain-clogged roads, and I was thanking the driver with a heartfelt smile when the frail and vulnerable-looking fellow burst into tears, crying unconsolably.…
Modi’s double-engine sarkar
WHEN Prime Minister Narendra Modi barrels around India to support allies running for state government elections his war cry is: ‘ab ki bar double engine ki sarkar’ (this time a…
Outwitting Modi’s psyops is key
IT could get worse before it gets better, goes the sagacious saying. It was in the nature of its very being that the INDIA alliance needed to cross the hump…
