VIKRAM MUTHANNA writes: Ever since AAP came to power in Delhi, they seem to have become the favourite punching bag of the media, intellectuals and politicians. Arvind Kejriwal was declared …
Naveen Soorinje, the Kannada news television reporter who spent four months in jail for capturing on camera the moral policing of a homestay in Mangalore by a Hindu fundamentalist group, …
In the non-stop disgrace that Karnataka politics has been under the BJP, the disgrace of September 2008 when the State was held hostage by Hindutva Hitmen is now history, buried …
As if he wasn’t popular enough, home minister Palaniappan Chidambaram—the darling of the Hindutva crowd for his seemingly tough, no-nonsense, hands-on approach to Islamist and Maoist terror—has bitten the hand …
“Indians have the rare genius to turn everything into an item of trade. Who else has turned God into such profitable commerce? We discovered early that this line of business …
The noted jurist Ram Jethmalani in The Sunday Guardian: “My complaint against the BJP has been that the Hindutva projected by it for electoral purposes is a counterfeit Hindutva. Its …
Siddharth Varadarajan in The Hindu: “The Delhi and Gujarat massacres are part of the same excavated site, an integral part of the archaeology of the Indian State. Eighteen years separate …
Former Karnataka minister Shobha Karandlaje, quoted in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “Agreed, pubs are not part of Indian culture. But if a youngster’s family has no problem in him or her …
Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma of the University of Hyderabad and author of “Terrifying Vision”: M.S. Golwalkar, the RSS and India, in Mail Today: “There is a significant difference between saying that …
Depending on who you would like to believe, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is either a noble, benign, cultural organisation of volunteers, straining every sinew to strengthen the moral and …
After 17 years—three more than Lord Rama‘s exile—and 48 six-monthly extensions, the Justice Manmohan Singh Liberhan commission’s Rs 7 crore quest into the “truth” behind the demolition of the Babri …
The return to power of the Congress-NCP in Maharashtra—on top of the Congress’ predicted wins in Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh—hides a smaller but more substantial subtext: the defeat of the …
R. Jagannathan in DNA: “The only thing surprising about Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi‘s dramatic entry into cricket is that it came so late—in the eighth year of his reign. …
The brave soldiers who have pledged their lives to preventing disrespect to Hinduism—the selfless activists of the Bajrang Dal—give Lord Ganesha a respectful farewell in Raichur on Friday. Photograph: Santosh …
A distressing feature of Indian public life today is the ease with which “hate” has become an integral, almost acceptable, part of the discourse. A thick cloud of hate—on the …
As if to prove that a cracked canine is running around biting hoodlums of the saffron and red kind, Karnataka medical education minister Ramachandre Gowda said on Wednesday that “modern …
Much to the delight of its perpetrators (and their puppeteers), the Mangalore pub incident has petered out into a shrill slugfest on “pub culture”, as if the rights of women …
Amrita Shah in The Indian Express: “The Mangalore incident has served to highlight an aspect of the Hindutva ideology customarily sidelined in the greater preoccupation with religion and anti-minorityism, which …
Mangalore is fast emerging, if it has already not emerged, as the “Laboratory of Karnataka”. The epicentre of communally mobilised politics for long, the region has seen individual and institutional …
BJP president Rajnath Singh and the party’s prime minister hopeful L.K. Advani have declared that the Anti-Terrorism Squad of the Maharashtra police should let off the Malegaon blast accused—“Sadhvi” Pragya …
The arrest of three suspects with Hindu names—Shyamlal Sahu, Shivnarayan Singh and Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur alias Poornachetanand Pragya Singh Thakur—in connection with the blasts in Malegaon, Modasa and Mehrauli …
In the two months since the Orissa disgrace began, 50,000 Christians have been rendered homeless, many of their homes burnt. But Mohan Joshi, central unit secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishat …
D.P. SATISH writes from New Delhi: What is now happening in Karnataka is quite disturbing; almost unthinkable. People like me who went to school and college in the 1980s and …
Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw: “As they say, religion is the teachings of God entrusted to learned men to spread love, goodwill and harmony. Unfortunately when men, especially ignorant men, descecrate …
The sort of disrepute Shivaraj Patil has brought the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre in four years, V.S. Acharya has brought the BJP government in Karnataka in four months …