Sir — A recent report on bird population has revealed that the count of the house sparrow, the Indian peafowl and certain other avian species in India has increased (“50 bird species dwindle, spar...

India today is teetering on the brink of a fascist State. Until now we have had fascist elements occupying positions of power in a democratic State, but the tendency to push it in the direction of a f...

“Ye daagh-daagh ujala, ye shab-ghazeeda seher/ Wo intezaar thha jiska, ye wo seher to nahin (This stained pitted light, this night-bitten dawn/ That we were waiting for, this is not that morning).�...

A students’ group campaigning against “evening curfews” imposed by women’s hostels joined the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citizenship on Thurs...

Tens of thousands of people hit the streets in Calcutta on Wednesday to protest the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citizens. The processions came like waves through lanes and...

Neeti Nair, associate professor of South Asian history at the University of Virginia in the US, tells G.S. Mudur of The Telegraph that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citi...

Dozens of Banaras Hindu University students as well as social activists and artistes of Varanasi have expressed solidarity with assistant professor of Sanskrit Feroze Khan and condemned the “anti-co...

A lot of history is about fights — in the subject-matter as also over the perception of it. One of the joys of history is that it can be rewritten when new evidence comes to hand or new connections ...

Home minister Amit Shah’s recent statement praising Hindu Rashtra proponent Vinayak Damodar Savarkar for being the first to describe the 1857 revolt as India’s first war of independence appears co...

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday said the concept of lynching was “alien to Bharat” and was being used to defame the “country and the entire Hindu society”.Speaking at the annual Dussehra ce...