A chameleon is a remarkable creature. It can change its colours at will. In two recent judgments, the Supreme Court of India appears to have changed its colours dramatically. In the Gyanvapi...

A retired army officer on Tuesday filed a fresh petition in the Supreme Court to quash the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, which mandates that the character of a place of public wors...

The Supreme Court’s decision to allow the cordoning off of a part of the Gyanvapi mosque ordered by a lower court in Varanasi illustrates the way in which the judicial process sometimes creates ...

Meat of the matter Sir — India loves its meat. Data from the recently-released National Family Health Survey-5 show that the number of Indians who eat non-vegetarian food has been increasing st...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused “some parties” and their “ecosystem” of trying to divert people’s attention from the “core issue” of the countr...

In an unusual coincidence, the two judges of a Supreme Court bench hearing a plea against the survey of the Gyanvapi-Shringar Gauri complex in Varanasi have had an association with a similar kind of d...

Consider these film titles. Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai? Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro. Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan. Each of them catchy and original. All these titles share a...

The growing insignificance of Muslim electoral politics is seen as an obvious outcome of the ultimate triumph of the Kamandal politics of Hindutva, especially after the success of the Bharatiya J...

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds (Random House, $28) by Thomas Halliday travels back in time to Earth’s past — beginning with the most recent period, the Mio...

Step into the future Sir — Institutions must evolve with the times in order to remain relevant. The head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, recently conferred the lay Roman Catholic ministri...