Tavleen Singh

1 week ago | indianexpress.com | Tavleen Singh

Finally, as we headed towards Manhattan, my son called and said that an Air India flight had crashed and that when he woke that morning and saw the news in New York’s newspapers, he had been frantic with worry that it could be the Air India flight that I was on. I am grateful to all the gods that I dodged Yama this time and totally devastated by the pictures from Ahmedabad and the heartbreaking stories of those who lost loved ones.

2 weeks ago | financialexpress.com | Tavleen Singh

An unforeseen consequence of Operation Sindoor has been that South Asia’s two poster boys of dynastic democracy surfaced and made fools of themselves. I speak of Bilawal Bhutto and Rahul Gandhi. They would not be considered political leaders at all if it were not for their illustrious surnames. As someone who believes dynastic succession should have ended when feudalism did, I watched the performance of these two political princes with real interest.

3 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Tavleen Singh

This week let me stick to the treason charge that was flung at me last week on social media. As someone who has just discovered ChatGPT and Grok, I am new to the marvels and dangers of Artificial Intelligence so I posted on X a video of Donald Trump mocking the Indian Air Force with the rider that if this was not fake, then we should realise that Trump is not on our side. I did this because I truly was not sure that it was a fake.

1 month ago | financialexpress.com | Tavleen Singh

Our political leaders shamed India last week. At the end of an ugly war that we fought and won, they could have shown grace and maturity befitting a democratic country. Instead, they made speeches and statements more befitting politicians in a tawdry autocracy. It was not just our political leaders who let the side down, but the media as well. Nearly all our private news channels turned their studios into war rooms. And celebrated TV anchors passed jingoism off as journalism.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Tavleen Singh

2 hours agoFour days that took India and Pakistan to the brinkSixteen-year-old Nimra stood outside, rooted to the spot, as the Indian missiles that had woken her a moment ago rained down on the mosque a few metres from her house in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. She watched one tear the minaret off the top of the building.