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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...
After renaming Allahabad to Prayagraj, Faizabad to Ayodhya, Mughalsarai Junction to Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction, and then, Agra Airport to...
A youth icon of India, who belonged to Bihar, died by suicide. And if you watch Sushant Singh Rajput’s coverage on national news, death and...
The Pilot vs Gehlot drama in Rajasthan has revealed a festering wound, which the Bharatiya Janata Party has always accused the Congress of concealing,...
Gangster Vikas Dubey’s death has caused a ‘manthan’ in the treacherous political ocean of Uttar Pradesh, and Samajwadi Party leader and former...
Jyotiraditya Scindia has been saying “Tiger abhi z inda hai” on loop. And as much as he is beginning to sound silly, no one can deny how Scindia...
The world this year has witnessed many unexpected situations unfold, and the world of politics is no different. The bonhomie at display between...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed at the all-party meet on the LAC situation on 19 June that there was no intrusion into the Indian borders and...
India is now the 4th worst-hit country in terms of the number of coronavirus infections after the US, Brazil and Russia. Supporters of Prime...
Politics over animals is not new to India. Be it Hindus’ holy cow or Muslims’ sacrificial goat, or a hapless pregnant elephant who ate an...
If a train bound for Gorakhpur reaches Raurkela in Odisha and another one going to Patna reaches Purulia, there must be something very ‘special’...
We have a female finance minister in India after almost half a century — Indira Gandhi was the first. Nirmala Sitharaman is India’s...
With videos emerging of people fighting over biscuits at a railway station in Bihar, or of men, women and children walking barefoot in the...
It takes a lot to be defeated twice over, ridiculed for years and still care enough to show up for your country, the majority of which has rejected...
Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi refuses to do a press conference to answer pressing questions over the Covid-19 situation, or any crisis for that...
The migrant crisis in India’s coronavirus lockdown has a political angle, and it is exposing state leaders and the lack of crisis management skills...