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Alok Rai

The writer taught in the department of English, Delhi University.

Blame the hat

Wed, Jun 14, 2017

General Bipin Rawat has been far too eloquent on matters he ought to be quiet about. He did sound silly while elaborating on ways to deal with the Kashmir issue.

All About My Motherland

Sun, May 21, 2017

The evolution of our country's identity from the unifying mother of yore to the strict father of contemporary nationalist times.

Orwell, again

Mon, Feb 20, 2017

But Trump’s America is a latecomer. It has much to learn from Vishwaguru India.

We live with violent opposites, nuance is dead, so is dissent

Wed, Jan 04, 2017

The farce of TV “debates” shows us in the grip of matched opposites, good versus evil, black versus white. There is little civilised discourse. No question is open. This is the age of the slogan — and outright violence.

Silence, surgery in progress

Fri, Oct 21, 2016

There are great advantages of redefining military action as surgery — for one, it mobilises the rhetoric of health.

Unbecoming Gurgaon

Mon, May 02, 2016

‘Gurugram’ is the symptom of a disease which generates a striving to return to some previous perfection.

An ominous operetta

Tue, Feb 16, 2016

The alarming, exponential reach of the ‘anti-national’ can find you out in the most unexpected places.

Class, without consciousness

Sat, Aug 01, 2015

A book on the fabled Allahabad University takes shelter in the romantic distortions of nostalgia when faced with the present.

Reaching For The Guinness

Sat, Jun 20, 2015

The officially declared desire to go for the record must itself be a kind of record.

On the altar of justice

Fri, May 15, 2015

Salman Khan had to be sacrificed so that we can rest easy about the impersonal majesty of the law.

A chuckle in the dark

Sat, Mar 27, 2010

Chinua Achebe looks at the everyday life of colonialism with remarkable good humour....

Jun 25: Latest News

Delhi must hold on to its cosmopolitan culture: Writer Rana Safvi

Delhi must hold on to its cosmopolitan culture: Writer Rana Safvi

Writer-scholar Rana Safvi says it is imperative for Delhi to hold on to its cosmopolitan culture. Her latest book "The Forgotten Cities of Delhi" emerges at a time when there is a brazen attempt to re-write Indian history with demonisation of the Mughals.