Tavleen Singh
Tavleen Singh, a leading Columnist associated with The Indian Express. Find all Columns from Tavleen Singh here.
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Tavleen Singh writes: We are already at warSubscriber Only
May 04,2025 07:12:48 AM
We must learn urgently how to better defend ourselves against this evil, cowardly enemy that hides in our forests and remains faceless. This war did not start with the attack in Pahalgam. It has been going on for at least two decades and may continue for decades.
Mon, May 05, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: Whispers of warSubscriber Only
April 27,2025 06:50:49 AM
The good news from the Kashmir Valley is that local Kashmiris who have in the past given succor and refuge to the jihadi groups seem now to have come out against them.
Sun, Apr 27, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: It is now a battle between an older, civilised India and a barbaric new IndiaSubscriber Only
April 20,2025 07:05:06 AM
Under the gleaming new airports and the fancy new highways what is being crushed is the spiritual soul of India and it is being crushed by people who believe they are nationalists and patriots.
Sun, Apr 20, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: Why PM Modi’s leadership is needed urgently at this timeSubscriber Only
April 13,2025 07:12:31 AM
We must hope that someday soon you (the PM) will discover that your leadership is needed urgently at this time. We need assurance that India does not face economic ruination in the days and months to come.
Sun, Apr 13, 2025
Tavleen Singh on why SC should act against those using bulldozers to deliver justiceSubscriber Only
April 06,2025 07:00:34 AM
Unfortunately, the Justice Varma case has not become a reason for some serious attempts at judicial reform
Sun, Apr 06, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: There seems to be a strategy behind this attempt to cause mass hysteria over some silly issue or otherSubscriber Only
March 30,2025 07:06:03 AM
If our politicians continue to behave this way, we will spend the next few years sending comedians to jail and squabbling over the legacies of emperors who died centuries ago. We can either cry about this or cheer ourselves up with good satire.
Sun, Mar 30, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: Dissidence and criticismSubscriber Only
March 23,2025 06:00:19 AM
The thing to remember is that the media reflects the voices of the people. If for doing this they are going to be called ‘urban Naxals’ and subjected to the jackboot of the state, those voices will die. Has this happened in India yet? It is something for you to decide.
Sun, Mar 23, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: India is beginning to run out of timeSubscriber Only
March 16,2025 07:15:50 AM
We need policies that will help us take advantage of having the largest population of young people in the world. Instead of just boasting about this in international forums we need our leaders to start doing something on the domestic front that will make a real difference.
Sun, Mar 16, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: ‘Time for PM Modi to show he can turn his slogans into visible reality’Subscriber Only
March 09,2025 07:15:37 AM
What we need are leaders with a modern vision of the road that we need to travel for us to remain relevant in the changing certainties of the new world. Narendra Modi could soon be facing the biggest test of his political career. It is no longer enough to give us nice slogans and words of comfort.
Sun, Mar 09, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: Our private TV channels sound so much like Doordarshan that it is scarySubscriber Only
March 02,2025 07:08:53 AM
What has changed since Modi became prime minister is that he is so allergic to criticism that almost the whole media has been ‘managed’. Our vaunted private TV channels sound so much like Doordarshan that it is scary. Boforsgate should make us ask more questions.
Sun, Mar 02, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: Recent elections show Gandhi family’s arrogance isn’t popular among votersSubscriber Only
February 23,2025 07:00:12 AM
Until the Lok Sabha election, it was Narendra Modi who had such an exalted sense of power that he elevated himself from mere mortal to messenger of God. That did not go down well with the voters. Recent elections indicate that the Gandhi family’s arrogance is not popular either.
Sun, Feb 23, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: India needs DOGESubscriber Only
February 16,2025 06:57:26 AM
If Modi wants to live up to the new slogan he invented in Washington, MIGA (make India great again), he could begin by setting up a series of discussions with his new best friend Elon Musk and get more details of how DOGE works.
Sun, Feb 16, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: In Delhi, this was no election, but a referendum on KejriwalSubscriber Only
February 09,2025 07:15:41 AM
In last week’s referendum, if there is one person who has lost completely, it is Kejriwal. What he has proved is that he is just like other politicians. And no symbol of hope, a new political culture or a new dream.
Sun, Feb 09, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: Welfare schemes may win elections but do very little to make India a developed countrySubscriber Only
February 02,2025 07:15:05 AM
When I see real economic reforms replaced today by populist welfare schemes that do no more than fling money at people just before elections come along, I begin to truly despair.
Sun, Feb 02, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: Real patriotism versus false nationalismSubscriber Only
January 26,2025 06:40:35 AM
It is time for our political leaders to be held to account for the damage they have done and to remind them that spreading poison may win a few elections, but it is destroying India.
Sun, Jan 26, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: Why it’s high time for Congress to come up with a new and convincing planSubscriber Only
January 19,2025 07:10:17 AM
The way the Congress Party continues to lose elections is proof that this is not working even as a political strategy. It is time to come up with something new and more convincing.
Sun, Jan 19, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: AAP vs BJP, and why election campaigning in Delhi is verging on the absurdSubscriber Only
January 12,2025 07:05:06 AM
The sad truth is that it is not just in the past decade of AAP rule that Delhi has deteriorated. It is a process that began a long time ago under chief ministers who came from different parties.
Sun, Jan 12, 2025
Tavleen Singh writes: Introspection needed in the mediaSubscriber Only
January 05,2025 07:14:51 AM
We are guilty of lazy journalism. And we have forgotten that we are supposed to be writing that first draft of history and to do this involves taking real issues more seriously than the shenanigans of political leaders.
Sun, Jan 05, 2025
Tavleen Singh on Manmohan Singh: The man who changed IndiaSubscriber Only
December 29,2024 07:10:25 AM
What matters now is that he will be remembered not for his flaws, but for the incredible transformation that he brought about in India with his economic reforms.
Mon, Dec 30, 2024
Tavleen Singh writes: ‘It was both Congress and BJP hypocrisy on display in Parliament’Subscriber Only
December 22,2024 06:30:58 AM
It is my view that the Home Minister spoke carelessly about Dr Ambedkar. But it is true that it had become fashionable to chant Ambedkar’s name by those who only sought to use it as a political tool at election time.
Sun, Dec 22, 2024
Tavleen Singh writes: A personal request to our Members of Parliament — grow up pleaseSubscriber Only
December 15,2024 03:00:22 AM
In a country in which most people are illiterate in the ways of democracy these are dangerous ideas to propound because they can end up being believed when their place is really in the garbage bin. So here is a personal request from me to our Members of Parliament: grow up please. Enough.
Sun, Dec 15, 2024
Tavleen Singh writes: It is time secularism is brought back into play as a valid and fine ideaSubscriber Only
December 08,2024 05:30:09 AM
But can this happen now that ordinary Hindus behave like holy warriors? On social media, while writing this piece, I spotted a video of a Hindu teenager beating three small Muslim children with a slipper and ordering them to say Jai Shree Ram.
Sun, Dec 08, 2024
Tavleen Singh writes: Hindus and Muslims are fighting about mosques and temples instead of basic civic rightsSubscriber Only
December 01,2024 03:00:15 AM
As someone who has traveled in much poorer countries than India, I often say in this column, that there is almost no country in the world in which I have seen living conditions more abysmal than in India.
Mon, Dec 02, 2024
Tavleen Singh writes: PM boasts of India becoming 3rd largest economy. Does it matter if Delhi still breathes poisonous air?Subscriber Only
November 24,2024 02:40:11 AM
What difference will that make if the citizens of Delhi are forced to breathe poisonous air. If our sacred rivers continue to resemble drains. And if huge mountains of garbage continue being built on the borders of cities simply because we cannot afford modern methods of waste management.
Sun, Nov 24, 2024
Tavleen Singh writes: Why SC’s ‘bulldozer justice’ verdict gives me hope, Maharashtra poll campaign despairSubscriber Only
November 17,2024 07:02:00 AM
Yogi Adityanath began using bulldozers to demolish the homes of rioters when Muslims took to the streets to protest the Citizenship Amendment Act.
Sun, Nov 17, 2024