Ravindra Kumar

The writer is Editor,The Statesman (India).

Fragile wings, cloudy skies

To the uninitiated observer, the recent announcement of India’s civil aviation regulator that domestic airlines had registered growth of 2.62 percent in the first five months of 2019 in comparison to 2018 may suggest cloudless skies.

Bearing the burden of undefined privileges

The sentencing of two editors to one-year jail terms in the southern Indian state of Karnataka for alleged breach of legislative privilege draws into focus the role of the press in reporting activities of lawmakers.

Just an ordinary journalist

We are inheritors of a glorious legacy and bound by the rigours of a demanding craft. We are not hoodlums who threaten to rape or maim those we don't like or shout out those we disagree with. The best of us err, sometimes grievously, but have learnt that making amends can be uplifting.

Cash-starved India assesses its pain

Two months after India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the controversial decision to withdraw currency notes of Rupees 500 (USD 7.4) and 1,000 from circulation his country is still reeling from the effects.

Selling a brand named nationalism

It’s time to worry when an utterly illogical proposition begins to sound half-way logical because it has been repeated over and over again, and because glaring gaps in reason have been plugged with dollops of nationalism.

Has the poison done its work?

Is Priyanka Gandhi Vadra the antidote to those seeking the demise of the Indian National Congress party, one of the contintent's oldest political parties?

July 14, 2019
July 14, 2019

Fragile wings, cloudy skies

To the uninitiated observer, the recent announcement of India’s civil aviation regulator that domestic airlines had registered growth of 2.62 percent in the first five months of 2019 in comparison to 2018 may suggest cloudless skies.

July 24, 2017
July 24, 2017

Bearing the burden of undefined privileges

The sentencing of two editors to one-year jail terms in the southern Indian state of Karnataka for alleged breach of legislative privilege draws into focus the role of the press in reporting activities of lawmakers.

March 11, 2017
March 11, 2017

Just an ordinary journalist

We are inheritors of a glorious legacy and bound by the rigours of a demanding craft. We are not hoodlums who threaten to rape or maim those we don't like or shout out those we disagree with. The best of us err, sometimes grievously, but have learnt that making amends can be uplifting.

January 7, 2017
January 7, 2017

Cash-starved India assesses its pain

Two months after India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the controversial decision to withdraw currency notes of Rupees 500 (USD 7.4) and 1,000 from circulation his country is still reeling from the effects.

October 23, 2016
October 23, 2016

Selling a brand named nationalism

It’s time to worry when an utterly illogical proposition begins to sound half-way logical because it has been repeated over and over again, and because glaring gaps in reason have been plugged with dollops of nationalism.

July 20, 2016
July 20, 2016

Has the poison done its work?

Is Priyanka Gandhi Vadra the antidote to those seeking the demise of the Indian National Congress party, one of the contintent's oldest political parties?

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