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There’s nothing more liberating than the truth. And currently, India’s truth is that when a minority community practises their religion,...
If the Bharatiya Janata Party had a theme song, it would most likely be Britney Spears’ ‘O ops ! … I Did It Again’. The number of times the...
In trying to be the better ‘Hindu politician’, which the Aam Admi Party convener perhaps thought was a masterstroke, Arvind Kejriwal has been cut...
The Bharatiya Janata Party is, modestly put, a dethroning-specialist. From Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Goa, Arunachal Pradesh and...
Arvind Kejriwal has had aspirations to become India’s prime minister since the day he sat on stage with Anna Hazare at the Ramlila Maidan as an...
Move over Asaduddin Owaisi. There is a bigger ‘vote-cutter’ in town. And it is the Indian National Congress — the party that calls itself the...
The Motera pitch may have cut short a five-day sporting contest, but it did make us witness the beginning of a long-term political game — the...
Mahua Moitra speaks the language of today’s youth, which is why videos of her speeches are watched by perhaps the most apolitical people of India....
Thirty-one test matches played for India. Highest runs scored in the Ranji Trophy — more than 12,000 — Duleep Trophy and Irani Cup. Batting coach...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi once ruled all political optics. He could do nothing wrong, which is why he could turn into a Bal Narendra who slew...
When Rakesh Tikait — the now de facto leader of the Bharatiya Kisan Union — broke into tears in front of the media last week, he infused a new...
Munawar Faruqui should not have cracked a joke on Hindu deities, if he did. It is objectionable. What was he thinking? That too in a ‘rashtra’...
Where is Rahul Gandhi? Still eating a scrumptious meal at pongal celebrations in Tamil Nadu? Of course, my questions should be directed at the...
If the BJP-led government establishing a Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog in 2019 made you think things have gone quite too far with India’s far-Right’s...
West Bengal is the perfect case study to figure out what works best in the muddy waters of Indian politics: hyper Hindu nationalism or hyper...
As a Muslim, it is humbling for me to write today that all of the much-maligned Tablighi Jamaat members, who were accused of intentionally spreading...
With the inauguration of Rs 970-crore Central Vista in the middle of a pandemic, and a struggling economy that recorded a -23.9 per cent GDP growth in...
Consider this an open letter to Kangana Ranaut. What happened to you? You went from being a brilliant actor to Twitter trolling. A woman with so...
Jammu and Kashmir District Development Council election marks the resumption of a democratic electoral process in the union territory after the...
Love jihad’ is a figment of political imagination, but the power of its politics can’t be underestimated. You thought Ram Rajya was the foundation...
Call him a ‘vote katua’ if you like, but Asaduddin Owaisi has left his fiercest critics introspecting over their take on his party’s...
Citizen Arnab Goswami has been arrested. Not because he broke the cardinal rule of journalism — never make yourself the story — but because of an...
Offensive cartoons of Prophet Muhammad have been published, republished and projected on government buildings in France. Prophet Muhammad captures the...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi loves dramatics. This isn’t a jibe at him. He did tell a journalist once that his favourite subject in school was...
You remember the song — Ek chidiya anek chidiya — from Doordarshan’s 1970s animated short educational film? The whole premise of the song rested...
Hathras ‘rape’ case isn’t the first. But, in a long while, the outrage is. Dalit women, their identity and self-respect have been shredded since...
Three hundred and fifty-one witnesses, 600 documents, several video cassettes, and newspaper reports were not enough to get the accused in the...
Eighteen opposition parties and 31 farmer organisations have come together to oppose Narendra Modi government’s apparently ill-thought out farm...