All stories by Dominic Xavier
Dom's Take: Donald, you are a Lame Duck
Rediff.com9 Nov 2020Dominic Xavier offers his take on Trump's tantrum.
Dom's Take: Chill, Donald, Chill
Rediff.com6 Nov 2020Dominic Xavier offers his take on the Trump-Thunberg Twitter tussle.
Dom's Take: Prez Trump: Heads I Win, Tails U Lose
Rediff.com4 Nov 2020Dominic Xavier is not surprised by Trump's first move in the election results game and wonders what will come next if the results don't go his way.
Dom's Take: Modi will charm next US Prez!
Rediff.com3 Nov 2020Though there must be some anxiety in the prime minister's office about how America will decide -- given Modi's 'Next time, Trump Sarkar' partisan shout at the Howdy Modi event in Houston in September 2019 -- Dominic Xavier is in no doubt that whoever the next American president is, our prime minister will quickly charm him and envelop him in the Modian bear hug.
Dom's Take: Will it start a second wave?
Rediff.com2 Nov 2020Dominic Xavier wwonders whether with 88% of suburban trains operational in Mumbai -- a mode of transport which has always been overcrowded, with zero possibility of physical distancing -- will lead to a second wave of COVID-19 infections in the city which is still grappling with about a thousand fresh cases each day
Dom's Take: Endgame for PUBG
Rediff.com30 Oct 2020Dominic Xavier illustrates the depth of emotions Indian game fanatics are facing over the loss of PUBG Mobile.
Dom's Take: Who created Aarogya Setu?
Rediff.com29 Oct 2020Dominic Xavier wonders why two government departments say they have no idea about who created the Aarogya Sethu app.
Dom's Take: Will Bihar women vote for Nitish?
Rediff.com28 Oct 2020Dominic Xavier wonders whether Bihari women will remember what Nitish Kumar has done for them or whether electorate amnesia will set in.
Dom's Take: Filthy Air, but Great Deals?
Rediff.com27 Oct 2020Dominic Xavier offers his take on the 2+2 meeting and what it achieved.
Dom's Take: Empty promises?
Rediff.com26 Oct 2020Dominic Xavier wonders if the many pre-poll promises will ever materalise into reality after the election or whether they will remain jumlas to woo gullible voters.
Dom's Take: Vaccine Politics
Rediff.com23 Oct 2020is puzzled by the politics of the COVID-19 vaccine. Will only Indians in states going to the polls get a vaccine shot? What happens to Indians in non-election bound states? When will they be protected from the pandemic?
Dom's Take: Will the law say: I DO?
Rediff.com21 Oct 2020Dominic Xavier wonders when and if the courts will legalise same sex marriages in India.
Dom's Take: Politics scores over Sports again
Rediff.com20 Oct 2020Dominic Xavier offers his take on the unfortunate controversy and asks why politics must score over sport.
Dom's Take: Hungry India
Rediff.com20 Oct 2020Dominic Xavier asserts that while we want to become a $5 trillion economy, we lag behind the world in tackling thaty most essential of human needs: HUNGER.
Dom's Take: Bhanu Athaiya: 1929-2020
Rediff.com16 Oct 2020Dominic Xavier pays homage to the design legend whose likes we will never see again.
Dom's Take: All Izz Well?
Rediff.com15 Oct 2020Dominic Xavier captures the uncertainty among theatre owners and movie watching public as the big screen once again promises a magical mystery ride.
Dom's Take: Bollywood Avengers: Endgame?
Rediff.com13 Oct 2020Dominic Xavier wonders if the Bollywood Avengers will achieve the Endgame they are looking for.
Dom's Take: Khushbu in Lotusland
Rediff.com13 Oct 2020Dominic Xavier wonders what led Khushbu to join the BJP.
Dom's Take: Mystery of NIA Arrests
Rediff.com9 Oct 2020Dominic Xavier is puzzled by the NIA's campaign against Leftist activists and intellectuals and wonders if we will ever get to know the truth behind all these arrests.
Dom's Take: And Justice for Rhea
Rediff.com9 Oct 2020The many horrors a young woman -- whose only mistake appears to be loving a troubled young man -- endured makes for a gritty Bollywood film, notes Dominic Xavier. Hopefully, one that will bring Rhea some meagre measure of closure for her inhuman ordeal and shame all those who hounded her relentlessly, merely for the sake of their personal agendas.