Tavleen Singh, a leading Columnist associated with The Indian Express. Find all Columns from Tavleen Singh here.
November 12, 2023 07:02 IST
If things get better, I promise that next Diwali I will write a piece full of joy and sparkle. This year it has been too hard to do.
Sun, Nov 12, 2023November 05, 2023 07:11 IST
In Srinagar, there are rumours that Imams had been warned not to talk about the Middle East in their Friday sermons. They do not need to.
Tue, Nov 07, 2023October 29, 2023 07:45 IST
Preserving democracy has become vitally important today not just in India but in the world because long shadows loom over democratic countries like Israel and Ukraine.
Sun, Oct 29, 2023October 22, 2023 07:56 IST
There are ‘liberals’ in India who believe that jihadism is no different to Hindutva and that both need to be condemned in equal measure. I believe they are wrong.
Mon, Oct 23, 2023October 15, 2023 07:00 IST
If civilians in Gaza are killed in the war that Israel hopes will finish Hamas once and for all, it will be Hamas that is to blame.
Mon, Oct 16, 2023October 08, 2023 07:45 IST
It is largely because PM Modi has taken so aggressive a tone that the coming election has begun to sound more like a civil war.
Sun, Oct 08, 2023October 01, 2023 07:43 IST
Manipur has been burning for nearly six months now, and you can count on the fingers of one hand the number of journalists who have gone there to report what is really happening.
Sun, Oct 01, 2023September 24, 2023 07:10 IST
Of course, this is against the laws that govern international relations but let us not pretend that if after 26/11 India had managed to bump off evil men like Hafiz Saeed in their sanctuaries in Pakistan nobody would have shed a tear.
Mon, Sep 25, 2023September 17, 2023 07:31 IST
While PM Modi talks of healing and building trust and while he makes it a point these days to address his countrymen as my “beloved family members” they wander about spreading hatred and violence
Sun, Sep 17, 2023September 10, 2023 07:26 IST
From Modi’s point of vantage, the summit that concludes today has already brought laurels and glory that will add to his personal prestige.
Mon, Sep 11, 2023September 03, 2023 07:45 IST
Of the conclave of Modi’s opponents in Mumbai, I ask why in the decade that they have spent in opposition they have not come up with new ideas on education, on healthcare or anything else?
Sun, Sep 03, 2023August 27, 2023 07:00 IST
No sooner did our spacecraft land on the moon than politicians from the BJP and the Congress Party competed to give credit to their party leaders
Sun, Aug 27, 2023August 20, 2023 07:05 IST
The reason why we are decades behind most Southeast Asian countries is because of the criminally negligent governance that defined the Congress era.
Sun, Aug 20, 2023August 13, 2023 06:45 IST
That sense of being at an election rally was heightened by the slogans he encouraged his MPs to raise when he said something he thought was exceptional.
Mon, Aug 14, 2023August 06, 2023 07:12 IST
Gurugram is not just a Haryanvi city it is a suburb of Delhi. In it can be seen on almost every other wall posters advertising G20 meetings and words of inspiration from the Prime Minister like ‘one earth, one planet, one family
Mon, Aug 07, 2023July 30, 2023 06:46 IST
There are certainly historic reasons why Manipur has imploded in this way, but this is not a time for history but for dealing with what is happening today. Modi led from the front when that bridge broke in Morbi and when there was the train crash in Balasore. Why is he finding it so hard to lead from the front in Manipur?
Sun, Jul 30, 2023July 23, 2023 06:44 IST
When leaders fail to lead when leadership is truly needed, they cannot escape being asked questions exactly like this.
Sun, Jul 23, 2023July 16, 2023 07:15 IST
If planned urbanization does not become a priority our dear Bharat Mata will look like a vast slum.
Sun, Jul 16, 2023July 09, 2023 07:30 IST
Unsurprising really if you keep in mind that just a year ago it was another Maharashtrian political party that was destroyed by supposed irreconcilable internal divisions so grave that they brought down Uddhav Thackeray’s government.
Sun, Jul 09, 2023July 02, 2023 07:00 IST
Too many of Narendra Modi’s speeches these days sound like speeches we have heard before.
Mon, Jul 03, 2023June 25, 2023 06:50 IST
Tavleen Singh writes: If Modi wants to build on the success of his first state visit to the United States, he will need to do a lot more than say nice things about democracy.
Mon, Jun 26, 2023June 18, 2023 07:10 IST
Rahul Gandhi could not have chosen a worse moment to try and convince the Indian diaspora in America that he is a worthy alternative to Narendra Modi
Sun, Jun 18, 2023June 11, 2023 07:15 IST
The Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis, seems determined to tear apart the social fabric of Mumbai city in the hope of electoral gains next year.
Mon, Jun 12, 2023June 04, 2023 07:35 IST
Modi's critics charge him rightly with centralising economic power in his own hands and taking personal credit for everything that has been built since he became prime minister.
Sun, Jun 04, 2023May 28, 2023 07:30 IST
I believe it is time for Modi to acknowledge that the belligerent Hindutva that has spread on his watch has damaged the tenets of the Sanatan Dharma and not just the status of Indian Muslims.
Mon, May 29, 2023