The TM Krishna column: Response to Gorakhpur deaths shows we’re losing the last bits of our humanity

Does our allegiance to a party or ideology make us so synthetic that all we care about is laying or shifting blame?

TM Krishna

· Yesterday · 08:00 am

The TM Krishna column: Why the Hindu majority must push back against the BJP’s politics of hate

The ruling party and the Sangh Parivar at large have launched an unrelenting blitz on minority identities, cultures and their rights as equal citizens of India.

TM Krishna

· Jul 25, 2017 · 08:00 am

The TM Krishna column: The human shield incident is a regrettable stain on the Indian Army

The Army must protect every tenet of the Constitution, irrespective of whether the other side is doing so.

TM Krishna

· May 28, 2017 · 10:30 am

The TM Krishna column: Should the ‘collective conscience’ override the spirit of the Constitution?

The principle of justice demands that law cannot rely on or be influenced by any delusionary sense or mood of the people.

TM Krishna

· May 15, 2017 · 08:00 am

The TM Krishna column: News flash, Tarun Vijay critics – we South Indians are racist too

‘We conveniently hide behind the narrative that victims of racism cannot be perpetrators.’

TM Krishna

· Apr 14, 2017 · 08:00 am

Through Yogi Adityanath's rise, democracy has held up a mirror to us. Now, it's our turn to reflect

TM Krishna on how the selection of the UP chief minister is not a flaw in the democratic process but an insight it is offering.

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· Apr 04, 2017 · 08:00 am

The TM Krishna column: Whose India is it anyway? Only of those who toe the establishment line

By curbing dissent, we run the risk of making people apathetic.

TM Krishna

· Mar 10, 2017 · 08:00 am

The TM Krishna column: What our disdain towards Sasikala tells us about ourselves

It's not so much the way she became chief minister-designate as the fact that she is not believed to be cultivated that bothers us.

TM Krishna

· Feb 08, 2017 · 06:30 am

The TM Krishna column: I am uncomfortable with jallikattu but I am not a votary of bans

If this ban needs to be revoked, it has to be on the premise that all stakeholders will reframe the discourse.

TM Krishna

· Jan 20, 2017 · 08:00 am

Silent disquiet: What explains the lack of large-scale public anger in the face of oppression?

We believe in servitude and obedience, constantly adjusting to the powerful, applying exactly the same oppressive techniques on those weaker than us.

TM Krishna

· Dec 26, 2016 · 08:00 am

Demonetisation woes: We, the empowered people of India, do not spare even a thought for the poor

The government's decision to invalidate high-currency notes has hit the poorest sections of the country badly.

TM Krishna

· Nov 24, 2016 · 12:30 pm

What ails Tamil Nadu? Amid prayers for Jayalalithaa, no one has spared a thought for governance

An incapacitated chief minister implies empty governance. Yet, none of us seem worried.

TM Krishna

· Nov 01, 2016 · 10:30 am