Jijo Jacob

Articles by Jijo Jacob

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Tata Tigor EV First Drive: A Fun-Packed Everyday Car

Tata Tigor EV, a sprightly sedan, convinces the skeptical Indian buyers that an EV is actually a normal, everyday car, and a lot better.

Sep 8, 2021

Tata Safari 2021 First Drive Report: Full of brawn and zest, and a lithe dancer on freeway

Tata has taken the decades-old Safari nameplate to a new perch, driven by an urge to please even the naysayers.

Feb 1, 2021

Who stole data from Aircraft Carrier INS Vikrant? Espionage angle in Cochin Shipyard probe

India is the fifth country to design and build an aircraft carrier weighing 40,000 tonnes or more. Only the US, Russia, Britain and France currently have the technology and experience.

Sep 19, 2019

Narendra Modi Birthday: When will the prime minister retire?

In 2013 Modi and Shah bargained for a greater pace at which India would change than what would have been possible under a putative Advani regime. Currently, such ideological asymmetries don't exist.

Sep 17, 2019

SC Directs To Demolish 5 Apartments In Maradu Municipality

Kochi flats demolition: Builders, local body officials and state govt paying any price?

Maradu residents hope the supreme court, which accepted their correction petition on Wednesday, will give them a final chance to explain their plight.

Sep 13, 2019

After calling 9/11 terror strike an 'airplane attack' New York Times deletes tweet, edits story

Did the New York Times 'de-terrorise' the worst ever attack on the US soil? The newspaper deletes tweet and edits article on 9/11 terror attack anniversary.

Sep 12, 2019

Kerala Model: Crony communism in the time of flood

It's a pity that a communist government in Kerala is stooping so low to protect its image. Perception management, Stalinist style?

Aug 19, 2019

KIA Seltos: A game-changer that scales high entry barrier with panache

KIA Seltos is an intelligent combination of great tech and creature comforts. With its ultimate deal-bending capabilities, Seltos compact SUV will give all rivals a run for their money.

Aug 15, 2019

Why Shashi Tharoor will NOT become Congress leader in Lok Sabha

For fear of losing their own relevance the ageing apparatchiks in the party's inner circles will take a stand against Shashi Tharoor's elevation as Congress parliamentary party leader.

May 28, 2019

Supporters of Maldivian joint-opposition presidential candidate Mohamed Solih celebrate in Maldives

PM Modi's upcoming Maldives visit reveals new national security priorities

If Narendra Modi travels to Maldives at the very beginning of his second term, that augurs well for India's immediate security interests in the region.

May 27, 2019

Prajwal Revanna's comical reason to quit shows how poor our democracy has become

Prajwal Revanna wants to be the nice guy. At the cost of the taxpayers. If people rejected Deve Gowda so be it. Filial feelings shouldn't be placed above basic mores of democracy.

May 24, 2019

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NYT, LA Times and WaPost scorn Modi's win; NYT carries perfidious commentary

The 'largest' epithet is generously used in western press as a descriptor for India's democracy. Is that just used to highlight the size and undermine the quality of India's democracy? .

May 24, 2019

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What's Pinarayi Vijayan's future as Kerala Marxists lose moral and political battles?

CPI-M cadres and their cyber armies who justify political killings are in a time warp.They make themselves believe they are in a fierce class war of the 19th century mould where open wielding of weapons is the norm.

May 23, 2019

Leaked document that hints Saudi Arabia related to terrorists attacks in Srilanka

Secret cable shows Saudi Arabia had ominous information on Sri Lanka church bombing

Saudi Arabia possessed crucial and accurate information on Sri Lanka church bombings. It alerted its Colombo envoy five days before the attack but apparently didn't report to Sri Lankan government

May 22, 2019

Rahul Gandhi should realise Indian elections aren't a love-hate wrestling bout

Rahul kept saying with all zest that love would defeat hate. Even if you were to accept this flawed argument, Rahul should have realised that for love to bear fruit he needed partners.

May 20, 2019

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Battle for Bengal: TMC grabbed Left's Muslim votes; now BJP is taking its Hindu votes?

CPI-M hasn't healed itself from the impact of the gigantic fall from power, and grace, in 2011, for sure. More seriously, no one has gone to call the medic.

May 16, 2019

Nehru rejected permanent UNSC membership twice; was his 1955 statement misleading?

A strong body of evidence shows Jawaharlal Nehru rejected US and Russian offers of a permanent seat at UN Security Council. But why did the first prime minister deny there was any offer in a reply in Parliament in 1955?

May 15, 2019

Time magazine puts Modi on cover, pens brazen obituary on India's democracy

Time Magazine stoops to paint Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a cave man who does the bidding of the ignorant mobs? The cover story questions the worth of India's democracy as well.

May 10, 2019

Moulvi Zahran Hashim, mastermind behind Srilankan suicide bomb blasts

Sri Lanka bombers part of terror arc stretching from Maldives to Bangladesh

Sri Lankan outfit National NTJ, along with a Tamil Nadu-based militant cell and terror operatives from Kerala, plotting to create a "separate Islamic confederation" in the region.

Apr 25, 2019

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan gives away fears of BJP winning seats in state?

There's a narcissistic streak in Kerala's CPI-M. It loves itself too much to fatally ignore its own fascist stripes. Will its secular banner fly high after the Lok Sabha election results arrive?

Apr 24, 2019

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