First things first. To understand the tumultuous events in Maharashtra of recent days, journalists, armchair political analysts and the like must accept that politics, like life, can be far more compl...

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A central feature of the ‘New India’ being constructed by the Narendra Modi regime over the last five years has been the slow eclipse of outrage over acts that are unspeakably vicious and vile.The...

Eminent intellectual and Sahitya Akademi awardee Hiren Gohain, against whom a sedition case was filed recently, said at an public hearing on National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship (Amendm...

Nobody loves Bindus. It might often and rightly be said even Bindus don’t love Bindus. MahaKaljug! What has Brahmaand come to! Wake up, chew the toffee! You are being told a truth hitherto untold �...

Ayodhya: City of Faith, City of Discord By Valay Singh, Aleph, Rs 799 ...

The concept of holiness has changed somewhat in India. Sadhvis and yogis now form an aggressive phalanx in a no-holds-barred political battle, defying ethics and decorum, reason, truth and the law. Fr...

Yashwant Sinha, the former senior BJP leader who handled key portfolios such as finance and external affairs in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, has been a bitter critic of Prime Minister Narendra...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday told a Gujarat rally about a “nuclear of nuclear bombs”, suggesting India had foiled Pakistan’s nuclear blackmail with the mother of all nuclear bombs �...

Few things can be as dangerous as an unscientific temper and a false sense of safety at the time of a pandemic. Worryingly, in India, such predispositions are being encouraged by the various arms of t...