Karnataka’s west coast, for long a Hindutva laboratory in the South, is beginning to show positive results as assembly elections loom over the horizon. Barely a week goes by without …
Manufactured WhatsApp messages, in a relentless drive to brainwash uncritical masses to the dominant theology, try to convince you that India has gone past identity politics. They claim that elections in …
When the Union minister for minority affairs, K. Rehman Khan, announced last November a move to set up five central universities across the country where 50% of the seats would …
B.S. NAGARAJ writes from Bangalore: Here is Udupi Pejawar Mutt seer Sri Vishvesha Teertha swamiji‘s reasoning for his opposition to “sahapankti bhojana” (people of all castes eating together). “Among other …
K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: The holy month of Ramzan, which is the harbinger of much happiness and good cheer to Muslims the world over, has come. This month marks a …
The following is the full text of a press release issued by the Art of Living bureau of communication in response to the charges of ownership of land held by …
The All India Congress Committee also known as the Congress party is in its 125th year. In a two-part interview with Sheela Bhatt of rediff.com, the historian and biographer Ramachandra …
Booker Prize wining author and activist Arundhati Roy in an interview with Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN (to be aired at 8.30 pm tonight, IST) suggests that the “gravest threat to …
With the Ramzan month rolling into Muslim rolodexes, it is time to shop for the fez that fits. In Shivajinagar in Bangalore on Tuesday, a young customer tries one on …
The number of Muslim MPs has come down from 36 in 2004 to 29 in 2009 (including three women) although the general belief is that Muslim voters played a key …
Few regions on earth can boast the rich cultural tapestry of Karnataka’s west coast. The place is home to “literate” Hindus, Christians, Muslims, Jains, Buddhists; to speakers of a multitude …
The United States has begun voting in a landmark election which many believe will make an African-American the occupant of 1600, Pennsylvania Avenue for the next four years. The prospect …
AMARESH MISRA writes from Bombay: The recent series of bomb blasts that have rocked India—a series which has become a proverbial dark tunnel where no end is in sight—denote a …
Sudheendra Kulkarni in The Indian Express: “Indian Muslims need to introspect on whether the shrill and persistent propaganda that they are a persecuted and oppressed community in India is helping …
Shabana Azmi, five-time national award winning actor turned parliamentarian, in an interview with Karan Thapar‘s Devil’s Advocate for CNN-IBN: # “I could not buy a flat in Bombay because I …
A common feature of post-Godhra Gujarat and the Amarnath shrine row are whispers of an “economic blockade” of Muslims by Hindus. In Gujarat, it was reported that pamphlets were distributed …
G.V.L. Narasimha Rao, the man who heads Development and Research Services (DRS), the polling agency that has predicted a rosier performance for the BJP than the BJP’s own internal poll, …
Every terror attack, every serial blast, every suicide bombing—be it in Bali or Bombay; Manhattan, Malegaon or Madrid, London or Lumbini Park—elicits a pat, pavlovian response from non-Muslims. “Why don’t …
NIKHIL MORO writes from Mount Pleasant, Michigan: Even though Karnataka’s ranking has sharply regressed this year, the 2006-07 NUEPA report’s silver lining is that our 6.5 million Muslims, the eighth …
Gujarat has been the great Hindutva laboratory, and there are many who have articulated the belief that the “Gujarat Model”—a combination of muscular cultural nationalism and unstoppable China-like economic growth—can …
Sudheendra Kulkarni, former media advisor to Atal Behari Vajpayee and trusted aide of L.K. Advani, in the Sunday Express: “A victory in Gujarat should neither make the BJP overconfident nor …
The Union cabinet has shot down the proposal to hike airfares for Haj pilgrims. The round fare to Jeddah and Medina and back will stay at Rs 12,000 per pilgrim. …