Former President of India Pranab Mukherjee looks set to keep his date with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Nagpur on Friday, June 7. The American academic and one-time state …
The Editors Guild of India* has issued a statement expressing concern over the ‘Cobrapost’ sting “Operation 136”, that showed media owners, managers and editors willing to push a Hindutva agenda …
What is it about dogs that so excites politicians and other animals schooled in the “Gujarat Model” that lures them into the gutters of political discourse? *** In July 2013, …
Five days after the Bharatiya Janata Kazhagam (Bha-Ja-Ka as Bha-Ja-Pa is known in Tamil Nadu) was left unbeaten on 99 in its quest for “Mission 150” in Gujarat, a report …
Even if you are a fully paid-up bhakt, with a blind love for the BJP and a visceral hatred for the Congress, it should be blazingly obvious in the privacy of …
The role of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, in building the mythology around Narendra Modi deserves closer scrutiny than India’s mainstream media has been able to …
For a party which demanded Manmohan Singh‘s resignation every hour of the day, for a party which sent a Union minister to wail about the killings of RSS workers in …
Three years of the Narendra Modi regime have seen a loud and lethal brand of “enforced nationalism” take centerstage, with the national flag, the national anthem, and other things adjudged …
Perhaps there is little to be said about the retrograde attitude of the BJP towards women when Narendra Modi, he of the Beti Bachao Andolan claim, termed Sunanda Pushkar as …
Manini Chatterjee in The Telegraph, Calcutta: Read the full article: The contortionist
To mark the third anniversary of the BJP-led NDA government, India’s brain-dead TV channels will roll out debates and #hashtag wars tonight, barely distinguishable from government and party PR and …
The release of audio tapes and transcripts of four interviews conducted by a journalist of the monthly magazine, The Caravan, which show the terror-attack accused Swami Aseemanand in conversation with …
The conventional wisdom on raksha bandhan is that tying a rakhi symbolises a “sister’s love and prayers for her brother’s well-being and the brother’s lifelong vow to protect her.” But …
Hell hath no fury like an old man scorned. With Narendra Damodardas Modi‘s nomination as the chairman of the BJP election campaign committee in Goa on Sunday, 86-year-old Lalchand Kishinchand …
K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: Very recently we read about an incident in our City where a software engineer who sought shelter from sudden rain under the balcony of a building …
K.B. GANAPATHY writes: Reading daily newspapers could ignite many unlikely thoughts in the minds of people who are rather sensitive. I probably belong to this class of people and which …
Opinion polls are crawling out of the woodwork in Karnataka. While most previous surveys have predicted a BJP downfall, a new one by the little-known Prabodhan Research Group, published by …
In politics, like in cricket, nothing is in the realm of the impossible. And it is not over till the last ball is bowled (and sometimes not even that, if …
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, …
Every survey supposedly done by pollsters in Karnataka has shown that the BJP has slammed the doors of the “gateway to the south” on its face. From a low of …
The veteran editor Sunanda K. Datta-Ray in The Telegraph: “Narendra Modi is the UPA’s creation. Despite his vigorous self-projection and the propaganda, both strident and sophisticated, of acolytes, he would …
The journalist and author Sandipan Deb in Mint: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said that rape happens in India, not Bharat. Let us be charitable. Let us assume that by Bharat-India …
To nobody’s surprise, Narendra Damodardas Modi has secured a remarkable third, consecutive victory for the BJP in Gujarat. But to the shock of his fanatical drumbeaters and hype masters (and …
On his 60th birthday, school children in Bangalore hold up notebooks of the City’s most famous cinematic export: Shivaji Rao Gaekwad also known as Rajnikanth. The books were supplied by …
After threatening to leave the Bharatiya Janata Party virtually every fortnight since he resigned from office in disgrace under a haze of sleaze and corruption in July 2011—and after making …