In April 1915, a few months after he had returned to India from South Africa, Mohandas K. Gandhi was in Delhi, where he addressed an audience of students at St Stephen’s College. To an audience ...

Cyrus Poonawalla of the Serum Institute of India, which manufactured the Covid-19 vaccine Covishield, and Krishna Ella and Suchitra Ella of Bharat Biotech, which produced Covaxin, are among the Padma ...

Sir — Students in the pre-primary and primary sections of the Mahadevi Birla World Academy are being taught about the Preamble to the Constitution. The school aims to impart lessons in justice, ...

If the Bharatiya Janata Party is defeated in the upcoming elections in Uttar Pradesh, it would represent the first electoral defeat of Hindu rashtra. Of course, the BJP has been defeated many tim...

This essay is a letter to my fellow Indians. It’s a prayer, a plea, a proposal for a project, a moral experiment. It was triggered by the emptiness of Independence Day, when a majoritarian, medi...

Hindutva — the polarization of the polity on communal lines — has been the trump card of the Bharatiya Janata Party in electoral contests. It has delivered too, catapulting the BJP to...

The year, 2022, is bracketed between one’s memory of two exceptionally brilliant works that gave modern society its understanding of depression leading to hatred and violence. Four centuries ago...

There is no doubting the Bharatiya Janata Party’s perverse success in turning, quite decisively, India’s political direction towards the Right — some would even say the far-Right. Wh...

Rahul Gandhi’s critical intervention in India’s political discourse to differentiate between Hindutva and Hinduism has divided both observers and Congress leaders as many believe the strat...

The purveyors of Hindutva are never short of projects. That is not surprising, since there is nothing complicated in the theme they wish to propound. The theme is hate. Their latest project ...