In a transformational move, the Indian Army is considering a proposal to allow civilians including young working professionals to join the force for a three-year tenure as officers and in other ranks ...

Some lessons need to be told and retold when collective amnesia is on the prowl.As many as 40 per cent of the survivors in a study on the Partition-era violence had said the members of the other commu...

Sociological categories are not invented; they are born. They emerge out of the womb of a dynamic society bawling for attention. As categories, they are both archetypes and caricatures, they capture t...

The Congress does not need a certificate of patriotism from anyone, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday and then pointed out that the party voted in favour of the abrogation of speci...

It has been argued for some time now that India’s freedom struggle constitutes its first democratic upsurge that fructified into a sovereign nation with a liberal Constitution and universal adult fr...

Congress president Sonia Gandhi rued on Independence Day that millions of Indians still faced discrimination and injustice in their everyday lives and argued that the nation could not progress without...

A man, a stepfather, goes out in the morning for a walk with his ‘wife’. When they return, he notices that the younger of his two stepsons — a child of four — has wet his bed. He flies into a ...

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has lamented that patriotism is being redefined to justify discrimination and exclusion in the name of caste and religion, and those rejecting pluralism were being hailed ...

If the Bharatiya Janata Party were not so desperate to pose as India’s only patriots, it might have accused the Congress of stealing its clothes once again. It did so with some justification on the ...

Those who are wondering what happened on February 26 at Balakot and how an Indian air force pilot fell captive soon after may recall the game of kabaddi. It is the only indigenous game of India and Pa...