Dictionaries, everyone knows, have to be regularly updated. Not just to include new words but also to throw out words that have become unfamiliar through disuse. Or misuse. The word ‘democracy’, f...

Many a great war has ended with the capture of the king. In Agra, which has been held hostage by gangs of marauding monkeys, the administration has decided to fall back on the same strategy.The SOS un...

One place that will soothe Yogi Adityanath’s eyes, tired of spotting Muslim names everywhere, is the list of the earliest Hindi films. The first years look like edicts of Hindutva now, though they c...

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The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a plea by a Hindu outfit for early hearing of the Ayodhya dispute, saying the matter would come up in January as earlier scheduled. However, it did not specify any...

Parveen Babi had delivered the phrase with elan in Shaan, the 1980 blockbuster. Now, Yogi Adityanath and Narendra Modi are doing so with gusto.The Uttar Pradesh chief minister and the Prime Minister h...

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath has announced that Faizabad district would be rechristened Ayodhya and promised a medical college and an airport named after King Dasharath and his son Lord Ram, respect...

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday renamed a cricket stadium and opened the partially completed structure hours before the scheduled start of a T20 international, the hurried inauguration leavi...

It takes a particular kind of diabolic genius for perpetrators of a crime to portray themselves as victims. Over the last one week, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its two principal satellites —...