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Tavleen Singh
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Tavleen Singh writes: India is beginning to run out of timeSubscriber Only
March 16, 2025 07:15 IST
We need policies that will help us take advantage of having the largest population of young people in the world. Instead of just boasting about this in international forums we need our leaders to start doing something on the domestic front that will make a real difference.
Sun, Mar 16, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: ‘Time for PM Modi to show he can turn his slogans into visible reality’Subscriber Only
March 09, 2025 07:15 IST
What we need are leaders with a modern vision of the road that we need to travel for us to remain relevant in the changing certainties of the new world. Narendra Modi could soon be facing the biggest test of his political career. It is no longer enough to give us nice slogans and words of comfort.
Sun, Mar 09, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: Our private TV channels sound so much like Doordarshan that it is scarySubscriber Only
March 02, 2025 07:08 IST
What has changed since Modi became prime minister is that he is so allergic to criticism that almost the whole media has been ‘managed’. Our vaunted private TV channels sound so much like Doordarshan that it is scary. Boforsgate should make us ask more questions.
Sun, Mar 02, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: Recent elections show Gandhi family’s arrogance isn’t popular among votersSubscriber Only
February 23, 2025 07:00 IST
Until the Lok Sabha election, it was Narendra Modi who had such an exalted sense of power that he elevated himself from mere mortal to messenger of God. That did not go down well with the voters. Recent elections indicate that the Gandhi family’s arrogance is not popular either.
Sun, Feb 23, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: India needs DOGESubscriber Only
February 16, 2025 06:57 IST
If Modi wants to live up to the new slogan he invented in Washington, MIGA (make India great again), he could begin by setting up a series of discussions with his new best friend Elon Musk and get more details of how DOGE works.
Sun, Feb 16, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: In Delhi, this was no election, but a referendum on KejriwalSubscriber Only
February 09, 2025 07:15 IST
In last week’s referendum, if there is one person who has lost completely, it is Kejriwal. What he has proved is that he is just like other politicians. And no symbol of hope, a new political culture or a new dream.
Sun, Feb 09, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: Welfare schemes may win elections but do very little to make India a developed countrySubscriber Only
February 02, 2025 07:15 IST
When I see real economic reforms replaced today by populist welfare schemes that do no more than fling money at people just before elections come along, I begin to truly despair.
Sun, Feb 02, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: Real patriotism versus false nationalismSubscriber Only
January 26, 2025 06:40 IST
It is time for our political leaders to be held to account for the damage they have done and to remind them that spreading poison may win a few elections, but it is destroying India.
Sun, Jan 26, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: Why it’s high time for Congress to come up with a new and convincing planSubscriber Only
January 19, 2025 07:10 IST
The way the Congress Party continues to lose elections is proof that this is not working even as a political strategy. It is time to come up with something new and more convincing.
Sun, Jan 19, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: AAP vs BJP, and why election campaigning in Delhi is verging on the absurdSubscriber Only
January 12, 2025 07:05 IST
The sad truth is that it is not just in the past decade of AAP rule that Delhi has deteriorated. It is a process that began a long time ago under chief ministers who came from different parties.
Sun, Jan 12, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: Introspection needed in the mediaSubscriber Only
January 05, 2025 07:14 IST
We are guilty of lazy journalism. And we have forgotten that we are supposed to be writing that first draft of history and to do this involves taking real issues more seriously than the shenanigans of political leaders.
Sun, Jan 05, 2025
Tavleen Singh on Manmohan Singh: The man who changed IndiaSubscriber Only
December 29, 2024 07:10 IST
What matters now is that he will be remembered not for his flaws, but for the incredible transformation that he brought about in India with his economic reforms.
Mon, Dec 30, 2024
Tavleen Singh writes: ‘It was both Congress and BJP hypocrisy on display in Parliament’Subscriber Only
December 22, 2024 06:30 IST
It is my view that the Home Minister spoke carelessly about Dr Ambedkar. But it is true that it had become fashionable to chant Ambedkar’s name by those who only sought to use it as a political tool at election time.
Sun, Dec 22, 2024
Tavleen Singh writes: A personal request to our Members of Parliament — grow up pleaseSubscriber Only
December 15, 2024 03:00 IST
In a country in which most people are illiterate in the ways of democracy these are dangerous ideas to propound because they can end up being believed when their place is really in the garbage bin. So here is a personal request from me to our Members of Parliament: grow up please. Enough.
Sun, Dec 15, 2024
Tavleen Singh writes: It is time secularism is brought back into play as a valid and fine ideaSubscriber Only
December 08, 2024 05:30 IST
But can this happen now that ordinary Hindus behave like holy warriors? On social media, while writing this piece, I spotted a video of a Hindu teenager beating three small Muslim children with a slipper and ordering them to say Jai Shree Ram.
Sun, Dec 08, 2024
Tavleen Singh writes: Hindus and Muslims are fighting about mosques and temples instead of basic civic rightsSubscriber Only
December 01, 2024 03:00 IST
As someone who has traveled in much poorer countries than India, I often say in this column, that there is almost no country in the world in which I have seen living conditions more abysmal than in India.
Mon, Dec 02, 2024
Tavleen Singh writes: PM boasts of India becoming 3rd largest economy. Does it matter if Delhi still breathes poisonous air?Subscriber Only
November 24, 2024 02:40 IST
What difference will that make if the citizens of Delhi are forced to breathe poisonous air. If our sacred rivers continue to resemble drains. And if huge mountains of garbage continue being built on the borders of cities simply because we cannot afford modern methods of waste management.
Sun, Nov 24, 2024
Tavleen Singh writes: Why SC’s ‘bulldozer justice’ verdict gives me hope, Maharashtra poll campaign despairSubscriber Only
November 17, 2024 07:02 IST
Yogi Adityanath began using bulldozers to demolish the homes of rioters when Muslims took to the streets to protest the Citizenship Amendment Act.
Sun, Nov 17, 2024
Tavleen Singh writes: Socialist prince vs real princesSubscriber Only
November 10, 2024 02:05 IST
For the criminal neglect of our ancient monuments, all our politicians need to answer. There was much more to Indian civilisation than religion and temples but inexplicably, nobody in these Hindutva times seems to care about this.
Sun, Nov 10, 2024
Tavleen Singh writes: Uniformity is not something India wants or needsSubscriber Only
November 03, 2024 03:00 IST
If we continue to celebrate the different cultures and beliefs that exist in our many-hued land, India will continue to remain united. Uniformity is not something India wants or needs, so please, Prime Minister, can you stop banging on about ‘one nation, one law, one ration card’.
Sun, Nov 03, 2024
Tavleen Singh writes: What Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s entry into electoral politics means for CongressSubscriber Only
October 27, 2024 01:00 IST
Priyanka Gandhi’s arrival in Parliament may not improve the fortunes of the Congress Party, but she will become entitled to a house in Lutyens’ Delhi. No small thing for many parliamentarians!
Sun, Oct 27, 2024
Tavleen Singh writes: Why is governance not more important than politics?Subscriber Only
October 20, 2024 02:00 IST
What does it matter who forms the government in Maharashtra if those who take power refuse to hear the voices of those whose voices most need to be heard.
Sun, Oct 20, 2024
Tavleen Singh writes: Congress can’t take on BJP if it remains an adjunct of the Gandhi familySubscriber Only
October 13, 2024 03:00 IST
There is no question that the BJP has lost the appeal it once had, and that Modi has lost his magic, but they will remain undefeatable until another political party can take them on nationally.
Sun, Oct 13, 2024
Tavleen Singh writes: Fiscal ruin in near futureSubscriber Only
October 06, 2024 01:30 IST
As a taxpayer when I see our political leaders spend recklessly on populist schemes in the name of welfare, I fear the worst. They appear bent on taking us backwards to a time when the world saw India as an economic basket case or, as foreign friends said to my face, a ‘land of starving millions.’
Sun, Oct 06, 2024
Tavleen Singh writes: Are corrupt officials alone to blame?Subscriber Only
September 29, 2024 01:00 IST
On a facetious note, I would like to end by expressing the fervent hope that our public servants discover how to make money out of providing us with the best public services and infrastructure, instead of making fortunes by giving us second-rate infrastructure and abysmal public services.
Mon, Sep 30, 2024
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