Tavleen Singh
Tavleen Singh, a leading Columnist associated with The Indian Express. Find all Columns from Tavleen Singh here.
Sun, Feb 28, 2021
Tavleen Singh writes: Every time sedition charges are recklessly made against a student, an activist or a journalist, it diminishes our democracy a little bit more. Dissent is the lifeblood of democracy. Without it, democracy dies.
Sun, Feb 21, 2021
Tavleen Singh writes: It is now time for PM Modi to realise that only when he delivers on the ground what he has put in words will we see a revival of that optimism that we saw in 1991.
Sun, Feb 14, 2021
Tavleen Singh writes: When the Prime Minister himself is paranoid it stands to reason that his ministers and supporters will go further to launch their own campaigns to ferret out ‘anti-nationals’ and ‘urban Naxals’. This has been going on for a while.
Sun, Feb 07, 2021
Tavleen Singh writes: Instead of trying to shut down foreign voices it would be better for the Prime Minister to concentrate his energies on trying to win back the trust of our farmers.
Sun, Jan 31, 2021
On the farm laws, all that is left to say is that there is a total breakdown of trust. Farmers believe the new laws will destroy existing farm markets and throw them into the hands of private traders.
Sun, Jan 24, 2021
The farmers' tractor parade seeks not to disrupt the official parade but to make the point that the government has stopped listening to the people.
Sun, Jan 17, 2021
The vaccines have been produced by private companies, but decades of socialism have trained us to allow political leaders to take credit for everything.
Sun, Jan 10, 2021
If you run into one of these ‘new Indians’, remember that it is useless getting into any sort of discussion with them. It will take you nowhere.
Sun, Jan 03, 2021
It has become evident that in the ‘new India’, anyone who questions Modi’s policies will be treated as ‘anti-national’. Dissent is the lifeblood of democracy, so the harm done by this contempt for dissension is incalculable.
Sun, Dec 27, 2020
Tavleen Singh writes: The farmers have shown Narendra Modi that this kind of contempt for the people is not something that even the most powerful political leaders can get away with. The PM has been forced finally to step out of his echo chamber into the real world.
Sun, Dec 20, 2020
What worries me today is that we seem in India to be regressing into a Hindu version of Pakistan. What worries me more is that laws are being passed that specifically target women’s rights and that our usually vocal feminists are mysteriously silent.
Sun, Dec 13, 2020
Is it just that sort of moment when Indian reality becomes so surreal that it is hard to see clearly what reality is any more. Through the fog of surrealism what is clear is that the voice of ‘the people’ is not being heard.
Mon, Dec 07, 2020
In a democracy, the people’s voice is not heard just through the ballot box, and it is beginning to look as if Prime Minister Modi has forgotten this.
Sun, Nov 29, 2020
After 26/11 the lesson we have learned is that it is no longer about Kashmir. It is about harming India in every way possible and the reason why Mumbai has been on target, is with the specific aim of weakening India’s economy.
Sun, Nov 22, 2020
When it comes to dog whistles it is true to say that both Hindu and Muslim ‘leaders’ are guilty. But, it is those who hold high office in Modi’s government who have the highest platforms and the loudest whistles, so they need to show the highest responsibility.
Sun, Nov 15, 2020
PM Modi's economic failures, that began with demonetisation, should reduce any satisfaction he gets from his political successes.
Sun, Nov 08, 2020
For a while it seemed as if Modi’s reason for never having given a press conference was that he did not know how to deal with the media.
Sun, Nov 01, 2020
Narendra Modi’s Kashmir policy will be counted as a miserable failure if he does not bring peace and normalcy to the Valley so if the demands of leaders like Farooq and Mehbooba are reasonable they will be met.
Sun, Oct 25, 2020
In India, there is no room for either the Islamic State, its evil ideology, or for ‘scholars’ who talk such rubbish. Our religions and the foundational values of our nation do not sanction primitive concepts like blasphemy and apostasy.
Mon, Oct 19, 2020
Tavleen Singh writes: It is my fervent hope that the efforts being made to demean and perhaps destroy Bollywood fail, but there is no point in denying that the men who want to see it destroyed are today extremely powerful.
Sun, Oct 11, 2020
The most disturbing development of the past six years has been that the nature of Indian democracy has been deliberately changed from liberal to illiberal.
Sun, Oct 04, 2020
What happened in Hathras has come as a grotesque reminder of how important it is for this to change.
Sun, Sep 27, 2020
It is hard to believe that private conversations on private cellphones would persuade a judge to send Deepika Padukone, Sara Ali Khan or Rakul Preet Singh to jail, but what has been achieved is their public humiliation.
Sun, Sep 20, 2020
It is a campaign that will serve mostly to help our homegrown jihadists convince more and more ordinary Muslims to lend support to their evil cause.
Sun, Sep 13, 2020
Famous TV journalists who have been responsible for the despicable media lynching we have witnessed do not dare admit that they have become pawns in a political game.
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