Tavleen Singh
Tavleen Singh, a leading Columnist associated with The Indian Express. Find all Columns from Tavleen Singh here.
Sun, Sep 25, 2016
We must hope that the Defence Minister will now punish those who were careless enough to allow 18 Indian soldiers to be killed so easily.
Sun, Sep 18, 2016
In a state the size of France, Mulayam Singh Yadav and his many relatives have taken control of all the levers of political and economic power exactly as used to happen in times of yore when rajas ruled the land.
Sun, Sep 11, 2016
Everywhere that there are Muslims we see the effects of this and everywhere there are Muslims we see excuses for why the allure is so strong.
Sun, Sep 04, 2016
The aged socialists who surfaced on the day of the Bharat Bandh charged Narendra Modi with things that he has not yet done.
Sun, Aug 28, 2016
Burhan Wani, whose death caused the current spate of violence, was a peacetime terrorist.
Sun, Aug 21, 2016
The sad truth is that India’s biggest failures in 70 years of glorious independence have been in the area of human resource development.
Sun, Aug 14, 2016
The Prime Minister in his speech said he was sad that instead of laptops and books in their hands these children had stones and grenades.
Sun, Aug 07, 2016
Since the Prime Minister has remained silent, the impression has gone around that he secretly approves of what these cow vigilantes are doing.
Sun, Jul 31, 2016
In his first address from the Red Fort, the Prime Minister made the grand gesture of abolishing the Planning Commission.
Sun, Jul 24, 2016
Violence against Dalits is not something that began in the past two years as the tenor of the debate in Parliament would have us believe.
Sun, Jul 17, 2016
Fifth Column: Every time the Valley explodes, experts emerge to pronounce in ponderous tones that we need to find a ‘political solution’ instead of just a military one.
Sun, Jul 10, 2016
The ideology of Islamism is directly responsible for creating these monsters who become bereft even of basic humanity.
Sun, Jul 03, 2016
The great Indian dream in those times was a government job. Private enterprise and profit were dirty words. Entrepreneurs who produced more than their licences permitted were punished.
Sun, Jun 26, 2016
He maintained a dignified silence, as RBI Governors should, in the initial months of his appointment. But no sooner did Narendra Modi become PM than he took to commenting on almost everything.
Sun, Jun 19, 2016
The great strength of the Indic religions is that they do not believe that theirs is the only truth and theirs the only God. This must not change.
Sun, Jun 12, 2016
According to said news item, there are plans afoot to build Sanskriti schools across India for the benefit of bureaucrats’ children when their parents get transferred out of Delhi.
Sun, Jun 05, 2016
The awful Swami Adityanath went so far as to demand that Akhlaq’s family be arrested on cow slaughter charges. Is he sick or mad?
Sun, May 29, 2016
Prime Minister seems unaware that reforms are needed not just in the economy if real ‘parivartan’ is to ever happen in our ancient, decrepit land.
Sun, May 22, 2016
At a time when jihadi terrorism has proved that it is the biggest threat to the world as we know it, whipping up fears over Hindutva terrorism is absurd and has a hollow ring. Yet this continues to be the Congress party’s only weapon against the BJP.
Sun, May 15, 2016
As someone who lives in Maharashtra, I can report that in this state nothing has changed since a BJP chief minister took power two years ago.
Sun, May 08, 2016
In my view, the Prime Minister has done a great job of improving India’s image in the world and his foreign policy initiatives have been good.
Sun, May 01, 2016
If the Prime Minister is serious about fighting corruption, then this defence scandal gives him a real chance to go deeper into the causes of the rot.
Mon, Apr 25, 2016
If the Prime Minister wants to stop having his agenda for governance and development derailed, he must build better relations with the media.
Sun, Apr 17, 2016
It was with sadness and cynicism that I watched the unprecedented outpouring of paeans to Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar on his 125th birth anniversary last week.
Sun, Apr 10, 2016
This is money that would have been much better spent on improving our disgraceful government schools and appalling government hospitals,
Sun, Apr 03, 2016
My experience came as a harsh reminder that ‘parivartan’ has not begun to happen in officialdom despite Narendra Modi’s promise of ‘minimum government and maximum governance’.
Sun, Mar 27, 2016
In India, jihadi violence has a longer history than almost anywhere else because of the Islamic Republic next door.
Sun, Mar 20, 2016
The ‘idea of India’ that leftists and secularists cling to so passionately is one in which the subcontinent has come to resemble a vast slum, in which the majority of Indians live in degraded conditions without clean water or clean air.
Sun, Mar 13, 2016
‘Q’ is an important reminder of the exact moment when India began to become a kleptocracy.
Sun, Mar 06, 2016
It was good to hear the Prime Minister speak in the Lok Sabha last week. Not just because he made a good speech but because we need to hear him a lot more and his rabidly Hindutva ministers a lot less.
Sun, Feb 28, 2016
In my mind, there is no doubt that in Parliament the BJP won the debate over the latest frenzied distraction.
Sun, Feb 21, 2016
Frankly I was appalled by the videos I saw. I am no hyper-nationalist but object totally to students demanding that India be broken into pieces.
Sun, Feb 14, 2016
A solution is not hard to find if the Prime Minister makes it clear that he has a clear, new policy.
Sun, Feb 07, 2016
If Modi continues to adopt policies reminiscent of Indira Gandhi’s ‘ghareebi hatao’ days, he will end up betraying the mandate he was given.
Sun, Jan 31, 2016
Modi has three years to go before the next election and this is more than enough time to build a political team capable of putting Delhi’s mighty mandarins in their place.
Mon, Jan 25, 2016
Finance minister, RBI governor, Indian businessmen did a good job presenting their case but sadly it was mostly Indians who seemed interested
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