Economist, historian and social scientist Amiya Kumar Bagchi, a former Reserve Bank of India professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and founder-director, Institute...

Britain appears to be heading towards a possible clash with Narendra Modi’s government if it seeks to speak up for an estimated 215m persecuted Christians in countries around the world, including In...

Sir — The latest venture of the badshah of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan, is one in a long line of films that have failed to impress the audience. But not even Khan’s staunchest critic can take away f...

Several shops and vehicles in northeast Delhi were torched in the third day of violence over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).Violence, between communities, that began on Sunday continued to sear a...

All political roads continue to lead to Jiaganj despite investigations suggesting the October 8 triple murder was not political and the family appealing against the politicisation of a “personal tra...

For the past five years, Indian Muslims have had it rough. People have been dragged from their homes and lynched on suspicion of eating beef; others have been brutally manhandled and even killed if th...

A heap of ash from a bonfire of books lies on the floor of the library of Arun Modern Senior Secondary School in northeast Delhi.Those who set fire to the books on Tuesday afternoon also burned the sc...

Pawan Kumar Singh, a BJP leader in Muzaffarnagar which was racked by communal violence in the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha election, is worried about a split in the Jat votes.“In the past, the BJP b...

It took Europe several centuries of bloodbaths to realize that religion is a cause of destruction and disunity and a hindrance to progress and welfare. The birth of the secular vision happened in this...

The sole Kashmiri civil service exam topper has said he will step down from the Indian Administrative Service to protest the “growing culture of intolerance” and “the marginalization and invisib...