| 1 | Dec 4, '23 | “South India has counted for too little in the Indian Republic. This is a waste for India as well as an unfairness to south India, because the south has a superiority in certain im | 17.2× | 1.3M | 4.6k | 765 | 361 |
| 2 | Sep 15, '23 | Mother of Democracy | 12.2× | 950k | 4.9k | 1.2k | 52 |
| 3 | May 1, '24 | In fifty years of observing Indian elections I have never seen such vile and hate-filled rhetoric. Every day the ruling party and its top leaders plumb a new low. It is for Hindus | 11.9× | 928k | 7.6k | 2k | 192 |
| 4 | May 10, '23 | I just voted, and for a progressive, prosperous and peaceful Karnataka too. | 10.9× | 848k | 7.1k | 452 | 11 |
| 5 | Jul 5, '20 | Vajpayee, when he was Prime Minister, speaking in Parliament about his relationship with Nehru. | 10× | 0 | 43k | 11k | 492 |
| 6 | Dec 20, '19 | The Prime Minister must immediately announce that there is going to be no National Register of Citizens. That simple and single announcement will do more to restore peace and trust | 7.1× | 0 | 27k | 7.6k | 35 |
| 7 | May 13, '23 | On the morning of 10th May, the day of polling, newspapers in Bengaluru carried the ads reproduced below. Do see them side by side. The BJP in Karnataka was pushing the Prime Minis | 6.8× | 530k | 4.4k | 558 | 62 |
| 8 | Oct 4, '23 | My friend Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, indomitable as ever. @paranjoygt | 5.5× | 426k | 13k | 1.5k | 16 |
| 9 | Jun 11, '20 | "Gujarat, though economically advanced, is culturally a backward province... . Bengal in contrast is economically backward but culturally advanced". Philip Spratt, writing in 1939. | 4.8× | 0 | 14k | 2.1k | 115 |
| 10 | Aug 14, '20 | Through this act, the Supreme Court has let itself down, and has let the Republic down too. A dark day for Indian democracy. | 4.4× | 0 | 16k | 4.9k | 57 |
| 11 | Sep 1, '20 | The story of the Indian economy in two headlines. @bsindia | 4.3× | 0 | 19k | 5.3k | 69 |
| 12 | Apr 21, '19 | A sitting Prime Minister who speaks so cold bloodedly of starting a nuclear war: merely to win re-election: Let’s be absolutely clear; this man does not care for India, Indians, th | 3.8× | 0 | 12k | 4.5k | 22 |
| 13 | Jan 8, '20 | In the 1970s, AIR stood for All Indira Radio. ANI stands today for Always in Narendra’s Interest. | 3.8× | 0 | 17k | 4.2k | 35 |
| 14 | Jan 26, '19 | "I do not want India to be a country in which millions of people say 'yes' to one man. I want a strong opposition". Thus Jawaharlal Nehru, speaking in 1950, the year the Republic w | 3.7× | 0 | 14k | 3.4k | 24 |
| 15 | Mar 10, '20 | If @JM_Scindia had a spine, he would have done what @MamataOfficial and @PawarSpeaks did—set up his own party. | 3.6× | 0 | 16k | 2.5k | 29 |
| 16 | Apr 15, '20 | Jawaharlal Nehru to Chief Ministers, 1954: "It is always the duty and obligation of the majority to win the goodwill of the minorities by fair and even generous treatment". This pr | 3.4× | 0 | 12k | 2.5k | 82 |
| 17 | Oct 28, '18 | If there is indeed a Tukde Tukde Gang its Commander-in-Chief is Amit Shah. He will divide, polarise, and fan anger, hatred, violence—anything to win elections. He is the most dange | 3.2× | 0 | 11k | 4.4k | 22 |
| 18 | Mar 29, '20 | This is a very important thread. Why a new fund when a Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund already exists? And why the self-aggrandizing name, PM-CARES? Must a colossal national | 2.9× | 0 | 8.6k | 3k | 74 |
| 19 | Dec 21, '19 | To make two things absolutely clear. 1. The immediate withdrawal of the NRC is a necessary first step to restore trust and heal the nation. 2. The CAA is immoral and against the sp | 2.8× | 0 | 9.6k | 3.2k | 19 |
| 20 | Apr 26, '24 | A vote for fraternity, against hate. | 2.7× | 211k | 12k | 1.1k | 33 |
| 21 | Dec 9, '18 | I have deleted the photo of my lunch in Goa as it was in poor taste. I do wish however to again highlight the absolute hypocrisy of the BJP in the matter of beef, and to reiterate | 2.7× | 0 | 9.2k | 1.6k | 17 |
| 22 | Feb 13, '20 | This is a myth, that has been comprehensively demolished by Professor Srinath Raghavan in The Print. Besides, promoting fake news about, and false rivalries between, the builders o | 2.7× | 0 | 11k | 3k | 58 |
| 23 | Nov 5, '21 | If the Prime Minister wants to pray in a temple he should do so privately and without cameras in attendance. These public displays at state expense are repugnant. They demean his o | 2.7× | 0 | 7.1k | 1.1k | 40 |
| 24 | Dec 20, '19 | Authoritarianism is bad for science, but bigotry may be worse. That is why so many of our top scientists have issued a collective statement against the Citizenship Amendment Act. M | 2.5× | 0 | 9.9k | 3.3k | 84 |
| 25 | May 31, '20 | Can the MHA unlock Sudha Bharadwaj and Anand Teltumbde please? And all the other brave, non-violent, Indian democrats it has put away on false, framed up, charges? And while it is | 2.4× | 0 | 9.8k | 2.1k | 13 |
| 26 | Feb 13, '20 | The letter of 1 August where Nehru invites Patel to join the first Cabinet of free India, calling him the “strongest pillar” of that Cabinet. Can someone show this to @DrSJaishank | 2.4× | 0 | 9.6k | 2.9k | 61 |
| 27 | Mar 27, '19 | On this historic day, DRDO joins the growing list of public institutions whose professional autonomy and integrity must be destroyed to fulfill the vanity and ambition of one man. | 2.4× | 0 | 8.2k | 2.2k | 8 |
| 28 | Mar 15, '19 | That such a film will be shown and promoted during the elections demonstrates the joke and farce that the “model code of conduct” is; how can the Election Commission allow it? | 2.4× | 0 | 8k | 3k | 13 |
| 29 | Jan 14, '20 | Mahatma Gandhi, in a statement addressed "To Gujaratis", 14 January 1948: "All Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Parsis, Christians and Jews who people this country have an equal right to it | 2.4× | 0 | 9.7k | 2.7k | 44 |
| 30 | Sep 23, '20 | In March 1975, when a unified Opposition led by Jayaprakash Narayan organized a public meeting in Delhi to protest the policies of Indira Gandhi’s Government, Doordarshan was asked | 2.3× | 0 | 10k | 2.1k | 51 |
| 31 | Apr 13, '20 | The SC may judge PM-CARES to be 'legal', but it remains both immoral and unethical. To cynically misuse a colossal national tragedy to promote a cult of personality violates all ca | 2.2× | 0 | 8.4k | 2k | 30 |
| 32 | Apr 22, '20 | I'll be writing a regular column for @ndtv My first article for them should be up soon. | 2.1× | 0 | 11k | 939 | 4 |
| 33 | Dec 30, '19 | "India’s most populous state, home to 200 million people, is hostage to the recklessness of a Muslim-hating chief minister. His regime is treating Muslims as the enemy, not as citi | 2.0× | 0 | 6.6k | 3.3k | 72 |
| 34 | Feb 7, '18 | Nehru and Patel individually and together elevated and united India. Modi and Shah individually and together degrade and divide India. | 2.0× | 0 | 6.3k | 3.1k | 0 |
| 35 | Dec 10, '19 | Savarkar, 1943: "I have no quarrel with Mr Jinnah's two-nation theory. We Hindus are a nation by ourselves and it is a historical fact that Hindus and Muslims are two nations". The | 2.0× | 0 | 7.5k | 2.5k | 64 |
| 36 | Mar 17, '20 | In 2012, Arun Jaitley, then leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, remarked, "There are two kinds of judges–one who knows the law, the other who knows the Law Minister". Now | 1.9× | 0 | 8.9k | 2.1k | 18 |
| 37 | Sep 11, '17 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee said the answer to a book or article can only be another book or article. But we no longer live in Vajpayee's India | 1.9× | 0 | 6k | 2.5k | 1 |
| 38 | Nov 15, '18 | When a scholar like myself is stopped from speaking, that is intolerance. When a great musician like TM Krishna is prevented from performing, it is not intolerance, but barbarism: | 1.9× | 0 | 5.4k | 1.9k | 32 |
| 39 | Apr 3, '20 | Event Management 9.0 A great thinker once said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. In 21st century India, we have farce at the time of tragedy. | 1.9× | 0 | 8.1k | 1.8k | 23 |
| 40 | Oct 31, '18 | Sardar Patel would have been appalled by the crude boastfulness of the ads in his name in today’s newspapers. That his statue is taller than any in China, America, Japan, etc. That | 1.8× | 0 | 6.5k | 1.8k | 4 |
| 41 | Sep 25, '18 | Mirror Now asked me for an "exclusive contract" as a panelist for the 2019 elections. Naturally I declined. If @vineetjaintimes wants to serve the cause of truth, he should shut do | 1.8× | 0 | 6.9k | 2.1k | 3 |
| 42 | May 24, '19 | It is astonishing that Rahul Gandhi has not yet resigned as Congress President. His party performed very poorly; he lost his own pocket borough. Both self-respect, as well as polit | 1.8× | 0 | 7.2k | 1.7k | 9 |
| 43 | Aug 28, '18 | As a biographer of Gandhi, I have no doubt that if the Mahatma was alive today, he would don his lawyer's robes and defend Sudha Bharadwaj in court; that is assuming the Modi Sarka | 1.8× | 0 | 6.1k | 2.1k | 7 |
| 44 | Dec 18, '19 | Can the honourable Home Minister also give an interview to Ravish Kumar please? | 1.7× | 0 | 7.8k | 1.7k | 5 |
| 45 | May 21, '19 | Five more years of Narendra Modi will take India to a dark place | Kapil Komireddi | Opinion | The Guardian | 1.7× | 0 | 4.4k | 1.4k | 77 |
| 46 | Apr 23, '20 | The Kerala model of human development, based on transparency, science, and social equality, has far more to offer India today than a "Gujarat model" based on secrecy, communalism, | 1.7× | 0 | 6.8k | 2k | 80 |
| 47 | Feb 17, '18 | Every CBSE school was compelled to hear the Prime Minister promote his new book. The Principal of a school in my neighbourhood was asked by a student: ‘Sir, what exactly is the exa | 1.7× | 0 | 5k | 2.2k | 2 |
| 48 | Feb 13, '20 | Sir, since you have a Ph D from JNU you must surely have read more books than me. Among them must have been the published correspondence of Nehru and Patel which documents how Nehr | 1.7× | 0 | 7.8k | 1.8k | 23 |
| 49 | Feb 27, '20 | Before May 2014, four public institutions were moderately autonomous and independent: the Armed Services, the RBI, the EC, and the Supreme Court. Now all are subject to various deg | 1.6× | 0 | 6.7k | 2.2k | 37 |
| 50 | Apr 2, '20 | Modi and Adityanath are textbook cases of what is called the "authoritarian personality". They will both use the current crisis to seek to suppress what remains of the independent | 1.6× | 0 | 5.9k | 1.3k | 31 |
| 51 | Jun 20, '20 | With Harsh Mander named in Delhi riots chargesheet, Indian democracy has slipped into a dark hole | 1.6× | 0 | 5.2k | 1.7k | 41 |
| 52 | Apr 21, '21 | View post on X | 1.6× | 0 | 6.6k | 1.8k | 28 |
| 53 | May 24, '20 | Your house gets burnt and looted, you file a complaint; and you get arrested. An important and disturbing report on the state of "justice" in the national capital today: | 1.6× | 0 | 5.5k | 2.6k | 41 |
| 54 | Apr 9, '19 | This is a clear violation of the injunction that the armed forces must not be invoked for political gain. The EC’s failure to stop this shows that it is utterly, utterly, compromis | 1.6× | 0 | 5.8k | 2.1k | 8 |
| 55 | Apr 3, '20 | The Constitution lists as a citizen's fundamental duties "to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform". An Amendment is in order; to ask us all | 1.5× | 0 | 5.8k | 1.4k | 29 |
| 56 | Aug 18, '20 | For the Congress to effectively challenge Modi & the BJP, it must (a) organize a ghar wapsi for the TMC, NCP, & YSR Congress; (b) replace Rahul Gandhi with a leader who spe | 1.5× | 0 | 5.2k | 778 | 94 |
| 57 | Sep 24, '17 | Am very pleased that @SushmaSwaraj told the world of the IITs and IIMs; and greatly relieved that she didn’t credit them to the Vedas. | 1.5× | 0 | 4.6k | 1.5k | 0 |
| 58 | May 18, '25 | "Mother of Democracy" | 1.5× | 119k | 4.6k | 1.2k | 88 |
| 59 | Apr 19, '20 | For print and online readers of my regular "Past and Present" column in the Hindustan Times—for this Sunday's issue I had written on the folly and vanity of the Central Vista proje | 1.5× | 0 | 6.5k | 1.7k | 35 |
| 60 | Dec 5, '19 | Those Indians who think making religion the basis of a nation’s identity will make it powerful and prosperous need only look as far as Pakistan. | 1.5× | 0 | 6.3k | 1.5k | 15 |
| 61 | Dec 9, '18 | I have received threatening calls from a man calling himself Sanjay from Delhi. His number is +91-98351-38678. He threatened my wife as well as me. This is for the record. | 1.5× | 0 | 4.3k | 1.7k | 7 |
| 62 | Jan 13, '20 | I am glad Satya Nadella has said what he has. I wish that one of our own IT czars had the courage and wisdom to say this first. Or to say it even now. | 1.5× | 0 | 6.6k | 1.5k | 13 |
| 63 | May 20, '20 | Madhya Pradesh Police Apologise for Beating Lawyer, 'We Thought You Were Muslim,' They Say | 1.5× | 0 | 5k | 2.2k | 42 |
| 64 | Dec 26, '19 | A fact-check for the Army Chief, from today's Indian Express: "The civic protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) reported from cities across the country | 1.4× | 0 | 5.2k | 1.9k | 11 |
| 65 | Jan 26, '19 | A non BJP public figure who truly deserves the Bharat Ratna is MS Swaminathan, for his services to science and agriculture. To choose the controversial Pranab M over the credible M | 1.4× | 0 | 5.5k | 1k | 9 |
| 66 | Sep 14, '20 | Academics, Rights Activists Condemn Umar Khalid's Arrest, Accuse Delhi Police of 'Witch Hunt' | 1.4× | 0 | 6.4k | 1.3k | 17 |
| 67 | Feb 7, '20 | One day a politician originally from Gujarat may wish to call his autobiography "THE STORY OF MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH, HALF-TRUTH, AND UNTRUTH": | 1.4× | 0 | 6.5k | 1.3k | 51 |
| 68 | Jul 1, '19 | I have joined the Indian Institute of Science as Satish Dhawan Visiting Professor, for one year, starting today. Am deeply honoured to hold a chair named for this great scientist a | 1.4× | 0 | 5.9k | 434 | 7 |
| 69 | Aug 5, '19 | Jayaprakash Narayan on Kashmir, 1966: ‘If we continue to rule by force and suppress these people and crush them or change the racial or religious character of their state by coloni | 1.4× | 0 | 4.9k | 1.5k | 34 |
| 70 | Feb 20, '20 | The Home Minister of Karnataka has claimed on the floor of the State Assembly that he apologized to me by phone for the manhandling by the Bengaluru police on 19th December 2019. T | 1.4× | 0 | 6.3k | 1.5k | 9 |
| 71 | Feb 14, '21 | The moral timidity of Sachin Tendulkar | 1.3× | 0 | 5.4k | 902 | 75 |
| 72 | Apr 11, '19 | Amit Shah’s insinuation, that Muslims shall not and cannot be safe and secure in India, will be widely acclaimed in one country: Pakistan. Shah’s majoritarian bigotry is music to t | 1.3× | 0 | 5.9k | 1.5k | 5 |
| 73 | Feb 16, '22 | As I have written before, the ideology of the RSS can be summed up in six words: We shall show Muslims their place. What is happening in Karnataka today is a chilling illustration | 1.3× | 0 | 5.7k | 1.3k | 43 |
| 74 | Mar 4, '21 | India loses its status as ‘free’ under Freedom House’s 2021 report | 1.3× | 0 | 5.5k | 1.5k | 33 |
| 75 | Feb 26, '20 | The riots in Delhi are only the latest in a series of disasters that have unfolded under the watch of the Home Minister. The draconian shutdown in Kashmir, the polarizing and unnec | 1.3× | 0 | 5.1k | 1.7k | 31 |
| 76 | Apr 13, '20 | The attack on the free press in India: | 1.3× | 0 | 4.3k | 1.2k | 48 |
| 77 | Dec 15, '19 | In my @htTweets column, in print today, I had identified some TV channels as particularly jingoistic: Zee, Aaj Tak, Times Now, and Republic. The newspaper has, without my permissio | 1.3× | 0 | 5.5k | 1.5k | 24 |
| 78 | Dec 24, '19 | Very pleased with this recognition from one’s peers. That the award is named for an eminent historian from Assam makes it doubly precious. | 1.3× | 0 | 6.6k | 1.1k | 15 |
| 79 | Jan 1, '20 | Jawaharlal Nehru, October 1947: "Whatever the provocation from Pakistan & whatever the indignities and horrors inflicted on non-Muslims there, we have got to deal with this min | 1.3× | 0 | 5.7k | 1.3k | 19 |
| 80 | May 22, '19 | Today's @IndianExpress has a civilized debate on the future of the Congress Party. Yogendra Yadav thinks the Congress Must Die; Suhas Palshikar thinks the Congress Must Live. Neith | 1.3× | 0 | 5.2k | 1.1k | 15 |
| 81 | Oct 2, '20 | Gandhi, 1920: "Co-operation is a duty only so long as Government protects your honour, and non-co-operation is an equal duty when the Government, instead of protecting you robs you | 1.3× | 0 | 5.8k | 1.5k | 34 |
| 82 | Jul 5, '21 | Father Stan Swamy spent a lifetime working for the dispossessed and the disadvantaged. His tragic death is a case of judicial murder, for which the Home Ministry and the Courts are | 1.3× | 0 | 6k | 1.3k | 12 |
| 83 | Dec 21, '19 | The pre-eminent historian of Indian citizenship, Professor Niraja Gopal Jayal, says in this interview that the "vision of India, as a secular, inclusive, plural, multicultural demo | 1.3× | 0 | 4.7k | 1.9k | 73 |
| 84 | Jul 18, '18 | Swami Agnivesh is known for his work to emancipate bonded labour, and for the promotion of inter-faith harmony. He also has a sense of fun, with a joyous laugh. A Hindu monk of cou | 1.2× | 0 | 4.5k | 1.5k | 1 |
| 85 | Feb 12, '19 | I salute the Principal and Vice Principal who have resigned because their college's trustees disinvited @jigneshmevani80 . They represent the best traditions of Gujarat. Patel, Gan | 1.2× | 0 | 5.2k | 1.3k | 3 |
| 86 | Oct 3, '19 | Mohan Bhagwat now claims Gandhi had a soft spot for the RSS. That is a lie. Gandhi was opposed to the RSS’s sectarianism; and the RSS, for its part, deeply detested Gandhi while he | 1.2× | 0 | 4.4k | 1.6k | 112 |
| 87 | Jun 9, '20 | The wonderful, selfless, generous Sikhs who have so much to teach us of other faiths: | 1.2× | 0 | 5.8k | 1.1k | 36 |
| 88 | Nov 17, '19 | As India slides towards authoritarianism, the incompetent First Family of the Congress inhibits the emergence of a credible Opposition. They owe it to the country to quit. My colum | 1.2× | 0 | 4.4k | 1.1k | 102 |
| 89 | Aug 30, '19 | I woke up this morning to a lovely gift; a young friend had mailed me this rare photo of Nehru and Patel, their mutual affection and regard so strikingly manifest: | 1.1× | 0 | 5.7k | 925 | 26 |
| 90 | Sep 17, '19 | "Bhakti in religion may be a road to the salvation of the soul. But in politics, Bhakti or hero-worship is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship." Dr B. R. Ambedk | 1.1× | 0 | 4.5k | 1.3k | 44 |
| 91 | Oct 3, '20 | Gandhi gave Indians a spine. Modi seems determined to take it away. | 1.1× | 0 | 5.1k | 695 | 10 |
| 92 | Dec 19, '19 | Hindutva will harm, even destroy India: Guha | Deccan Herald | 1.1× | 0 | 4.2k | 1.5k | 37 |
| 93 | Jul 20, '18 | The Prime Minister was known to be a brilliant orator but this is a dreadfully dull speech. It is the political equivalent of Sachin Tendulkar choosing to bat like Geoffrey Boycott | 1.1× | 0 | 4.4k | 1.1k | 5 |
| 94 | Dec 14, '17 | Narendra Modi’s new mantra: Na interview doonga na kisi ko dene doonga. | 1.1× | 0 | 4.2k | 1.4k | 0 |
| 95 | Oct 14, '19 | Delighted to hear that Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Dufflo have won the Nobel Prize for Economics. Richly deserved. Abhijit is a proud graduate of that much-maligned university, JNU | 1.0× | 0 | 5.3k | 939 | 9 |
| 96 | Mar 1, '19 | "It became usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune". George Orwell, "Animal Farm". | 1.0× | 0 | 4.3k | 1.1k | 14 |
| 97 | Sep 3 | Is Gandhi the most misunderstood individual of the 20th century? The man we know as the "Father of the Nation" has provoked the most furious arguments. Having studied Gandhi for de | 1.0× | 78k | 1.7k | 274 | 340 |
| 98 | Jan 29, '20 | These private airlines weren’t even asked to bend, and they crawled. | 1.0× | 0 | 4.8k | 1.1k | 7 |
| 99 | Apr 20, '20 | The Central Vista project intends to make the existing Parliament Building a "Museum for Democracy". This is grimly appropriate, since Museums are for things that are dead or extin | 1.0× | 0 | 4.3k | 1.2k | 16 |
| 100 | May 4, '20 | Why are the Indian Railways charging the already distressed stranded workers for their travel? @PMOIndia | 1.0× | 0 | 5k | 785 | 2 |
| 101 | Nov 13, '19 | Dear Barkha, By all means address the Delhi CM, but address the CMs of UP, Punjab, and Haryana too. And, above all, put these questions to the Prime Minister, whose silence and ina | 0.9× | 0 | 4.3k | 961 | 6 |
@karpathy
@levelsio
@paulg
@naval
@marclou
@illyism