A senior RSS leader without a research degree has addressed as chief guest a conference on “research methodology” organised by the Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, prompting se...

Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said India and Nepal were united by “beti-roti ka rishta” (ties of livelihood and marriage) and spoke of a dialogue to clear any “misunderstanding”, re...

Detractors say that Indians have no sense of history. But they are wrong. Indians are over-conscious of history; it is remade each time a particular party comes to power. One sign of this is the renam...

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has launched an ideological assault on China and the communists with the BJP and the government largely choosing silence on the Ladakh standoff.“Globally, the a...

The author advances her arguments on the basis of her research in two cases: the Odisha super cyclone in 1999 and the Bhuj earthquake of 2001. Based on her fieldwork in Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Erasama a...

In a 1995 interview, Harun Farocki, the late German film-maker, spoke about the ideas of the Enlightenment in his thought and work. “It seems to me something has changed in the last 15-20 years... T...

One of the paradoxes of the Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) movement in India which has moved from strength to strength in recent decades has been its ability to woo and win over an increasing number of ...

Tectonic shiftEvery cloud does indeed seem to have a silver lining. In spite of the gloom and doom in the country owing to the lockdown in place to battle Covid-19, a section of the sangh parivar is c...

Right on pointNo sooner had the prime minister, Narendra Modi, announced his ‘9 minutes at 9 pm’ plan of what has been done in Italy and the United Kingdom to break the monotony of the Covid-19-in...

A Muslim woman from Jammu and Kashmir has donated her savings of Rs 5 lakh, meant for the Hajj pilgrimage, to the RSS-affiliated 'Sewa Bharati' after apparently being 'impressed with the welfare work'...