The Kannada poet, playwright and novelist Dr Chandrasekhar Kambar has bagged the nation’s most coveted literary honour, the Jnanpith Award, for 2009, becoming the eighth Kannadiga, the most for any …
Javed Anand, general secretary Muslims for Secular Democracy and the husband of the activist Teesta Setalvad, in The Indian Express: “It is a maxim of mature democracies that where there …
On the day before, Bellur Ramakrishna stirs up the alphabet soup that is the Ayodhya dispute, garnishing it with the names, faces and jargon that have become an essential part …
Now that all the manufactured hurdles in the path of a judgment in the Ayodhya title dispute have been cleared by the Supreme Court, which way does it seem the …
On the day the judiciary put an end to the dilatory tactics of the executive in the Ayodhya title dispute , by ruling that the Allahabad High Court can go …
The run-up to the court verdict on the title suit in the Ayodhya dispute has seen plenty of activity built around the media. The News Broadcasters’ Association—the body representing private …
As if its thali wasn’t full enough, Judgment Day in the Ayodhya title dispute has landed in the UPA plate, sending it in a bit of a tizzy. Prime minister …
Cartoon: courtesy E.P. Unny/ The Indian Express
The Liberhan Commission report on the demolition of the Babri masjid throws no new light on the dastardly designs of its its 67 execrable perpetrators. What it does is throw …
The indictment of the entire top management of the BJP, including the party’s moderate mascot, Atal Behari Vajpayee, for the demolition of the Babri masjid by the Justice Liberhan commission …
The former India correspondent of the BBC, the Calcutta-born Sir Mark Tully, on 6 December 1992: “I witnessed… many tragedies often involving people whose names will not be recorded in …
Aakar Patel does an excellent appraisal of Lalchand Kishinchand Advani in Mint, the business daily owned by the Hindustan Times group, on the basis of his memoir: “If Advani has …
Pratap Bhanu Mehta in The Indian Express: “Let us cut through the cant of our political class. Amarnath has become a serious communal issue. In an interview given to a …
Sixteen years ago, a tsunami broke out in chai cups when the columnist Praful Bidwai revealed that celebrations had broken out among IAS candidates undergoing training at the National Academy …
Ashok V. Desai in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “Valmiki [Ramayan] makes clear is that Ram did not need to build the bridge. He could have evaporated the Ocean with a single …