All stories by Dominic Xavier
Dom's Take: India, here comes the vaccine!
Rediff.com15 Jan 2021Dominic Xavier salutes every single person involved in making this miracle possible.
Dom's Take: Fly, Robin, Fly!
Rediff.com13 Jan 2021In the first of the series on Budget 2021, Dominic Xavier hopes the FinMIn will give India's struggling airlines a break.
Dom's Take: Will the Impasse End?
Rediff.com12 Jan 2021Dominic Xavier wonders if the rulers in Delhi will see the light, address the farmers's grievances and let them go home (though he doubts it).
Dom's Take: The Vaccine Dilemma
Rediff.com9 Jan 2021Dominic Xavier ponders the Vaccine Dilemma: Should he take the shot or not?
Dom's Take: No State for Women?
Rediff.com8 Jan 2021Dominic Xavier wonders if such cruel and heinous crimes against women will ever end in Uttar Pradesh.
Dom's Take: March for Justice
Rediff.com7 Jan 2021Dominic Xavier asks when the Modi Sarkar will heed the plight of the protesting farmers who have been agitating for more than forty days in freezing temperatures.
Dom's Take: Who will be R-Day chief guest?
Rediff.com6 Jan 2021So who will be the chief guest at this year's parade on Rajpath (no, it ain't Central Vista yet!)? Dominic Xavier ponders over the question
Dom's Take: The Trust Deficit
Rediff.com5 Jan 2021Dominic Xavier offers his take on the breakdown of trust between the Narendra Damodardas Modi government and the farmers.
Dom's Take: Hathras: Forget Her Not
Rediff.com1 Jan 2021Dominic Xavier remembers the Hathras victim and hopes that the perpetrators of the gang-rape and murder are punished with the most stringest punishment available under Indian law.
Dom's Take: End of the Dhoni Era
Rediff.com30 Dec 2020Dominic Xavier salutes the cricketing legend.
Dom's Take: Death of An Actor
Rediff.com29 Dec 2020Dominic Xavier recalls the media mayhem unleashed after the actor took his life and the bizarre role central agencies continue to play in the case.
Dom's Take: The LOCKDOWN
Rediff.com28 Dec 2020IIn the first of a year-end series of observations on 2020, Dominic Xavier is still shocked by the nightmare that the lockdown wrought on India.
Dom's Take: Merry Xmas!
Rediff.com25 Dec 2020Dominic Xavier wishes everyone a HEALTHY and HAPPY Christmas
Dom's Take: The Brit Connection
Rediff.com24 Dec 2020Dominic Xavier hopes the mutated virus won't lead to a second wave of coronavirus cases in India.
Dom's Take: Santa Shah
Rediff.com22 Dec 2020With assembly elections coming up in Assam and Bengal, the BJP election machine will go all out to woo MLAs from rival parties to its side. No one picks up MLAs better than Santa Shah, says Dominic Xavier.
Dom's Take: Protection Perks
Rediff.com21 Dec 2020Dominic Xavier offers his take on the home ministry's protection largesse.
Dom's Take: Let's shake TMC tree!
Rediff.com18 Dec 2020Dominic Xavier offers his take on the latest episode in the Bengal 2021 drama.
Dom's Take: That's why it's called God's Own Country
Rediff.com17 Dec 2020With Malayalis immune to Modi's charms, the Pradhan Sevak must be quite unhappy today, surmises Dominic Xavier.
Dom's Take: HUH? No Winter Session
Rediff.com16 Dec 2020Dominic Xavier wonders if the decision to abandon the winter session of Parliament is a harbinger of events to come.
Dom's Take: Will Tatas get the Maharaja?
Rediff.com15 Dec 2020The Maharaja was Air India's original symbol and Dominic Xavier is rooting for the airline to be snapped up by the Tatas and returned to its old glory.