The insecurity of both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has turned Afzal Guru’s hanging into an unedifying game of political...

Both Hindu and Muslim fanatics are up in arms against artistic and literary freedom in India. One of their targets is the old ‘sinner’ Salman Rushdie....

Social scientist and psychologist Ashis Nandy is in trouble again. By suggesting that the backward castes, Dalits and Adivasis tend to be more corrupt...

Rahul Gandhi’s coronation hints at the return of feudalism to the government’s helm after more than two decades. As the Congress vice-president and...

Whether because of political ineptitude, administrative lapses or sheer bad luck, the government’s woes do not seem to end. As a result, it always...

By disappearing during the widespread popular protests in Delhi against the gang-rape and death of a 23-year-old paramedical student, Rahul Gandhi...

It is too early to say what will be the political fallout in the long run of the outpouring of grief and anger over the gangrape and death of a young...

It has taken the prime minister eight years to admit that preference for ‘outdated ideologies’ has been stalling reforms. What Manmohan Singh left...

The last two nominees of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president’s post – Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari...

The website of a saffron newspaper has been telling its readers that the site is ‘under maintenance’ and ‘will be available soon’. A similar message...

On the first day of the literature festival in Mumbai where V S Naipaul received a lifetime achievement award, the Nobel prize winner declared,...

It is now clear that both the major parties – the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – will approach the next general election with the...