American theoretical linguist and political thinker Noam Chomsky has accused the Narendra Modi government of “destroying the Indian secular democracy and imposing a racist creed”.This is, however,...

The word, ‘secularism’, is having an exciting time in today’s India. It twists and flips, turns somersaults, is turned upside down and inside out as a handy little verbal weapon in the rhetoric ...

Momtaz Jahan, a Bangladeshi academic, has written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reminding him of the secular tradition of India and urging him not to “create artificial rules or wa...

A thumping majority defeated the motion that “Secularism is a sham” at Calcutta Club on Friday evening. Politicians, former bureaucrats, ordinary Indians and activists spoke at the Calcutta Debati...

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However duplicitous the Bharatiya Janata Party’s leaders may have been over the National Population Register, the National Register of Citizens and the rumoured National Register of Indian Citizens,...

“Secularism”, “democracy” and “humanism” playing on her lips, Mamata Banerjee on Thursday showered praise without reserve on the students of the country and pledged her full support to the...

Passionate public protest may turn violent, as happened in Assam; worse, it may encourage vandalism, as has been happening in West Bengal. Neither is acceptable. The West Bengal chief minister has war...

What has changed since September 2018? The question has to be asked because of the outcome of the Sabarimala temple review hearing. Or its lack. In a judgment split three to two, the Supreme Court ben...

Neeti Nair, associate professor of history at the University of Virginia, the US, had waited long past midnight for India’s Supreme Court to deliver the Ayodhya verdict. Nair, who graduated in histo...