The violence that accompanied the senior BJP leader's rath yatra and the incendiary speech he gave in December 1992 before the mosque was demolished are well documented. The violence that accompanied ...

Data shows that one-fourth of those in the draft roll received notices. About 92 lakh notices went to electors who could not be mapped to the 2003 roll alone. Data shows that one-fourth of those in ...

As India grapples with the challenges of the 21st century – such as AI, climate change and a growing gig economy – this reliance on older leaders seems increasingly out of sync. As India grapples with ...

I will never write my autobiography, simply because a singularly inconsequential life can hardly be written about. But I do remember with pride one significant moment in my life, when my generation, ...

The Ministry of Home Affairs had constituted a Committee to examine 'alternative proper venues for citizen's right for organizing protest/demonstrations' in place of the existing “designated site”, ...

For years, the IITs resisted or restricted the application of reservation to faculty posts, particularly at senior levels, invoking their status as institutions of “excellence”. The consequences ...

The minister did not account for the massive disparity in savings and the boost that immigrant workers in the US are able provide their families in India. The minister did not account for the massive ...

The AMU protest began with complaints about insects in the mess food at the Women's College. This ballooned into anger over the fact that there was no students' body to voice grievances. The AMU ...

Form 7 filings have created havoc during the SIR process in Karnataka, with clear indications of voters being targeted based on their religious identity. Form 7 filings have created havoc during the ...

The vegetarian spectacle at the BRICS dinner may have gratified the cultural ego of the Hindutva establishment but it illustrates a larger problem – the increasing tendency to turn diplomacy into an ...

The image that dominates public memory today is that of the singer and cultural icon whose music transcended ethnic and religious boundaries. But reducing Zubeen to a unifying cultural symbol risks ...