Prabhu Chawla

For biggest slice of ad pie, media places histrionics and sycophancy over credible news
The medium is now more malarkey than message; a conduit of discord, disorder and dementia. For the past few months, media mashers have been flinging more vitriol at Indian news organisations than at politicians, criminals and sundry lawbreakers. The...

As scandals undermine opposition power, unity mirage can’t block saffron surge in 2019
Opposition leaders
Something is rotten in the state of the Opposition. The stench of failure pervades its decaying leadership, which is powerless to resist the Surge of Saffron at a time when India needs credible and saleable alternatives. Desperation leads to deliberation...

Dravidian patriarch woos history with dreams of opposition unity in birthday spirit
Divided they have fallen too often. United they expect to rise again. Battered by three years of the relentless fury of Modicane, demoralised and disconsolate opposition parties are anxious to regain the power—mental and physical—to contain the prime...

To tackle terror and desperation in the Valley, Modi needs to think about bullet for stone
In democracy, the ballot and not the bullet is the wonder weapon best suited to resolve conflicts and replace governments. When those rejected by ballots resort to murder and mayhem to destabilise an elected establishment, the bullet becomes the most...