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Farrukh Dhondy | On theocracy, secularism, and new truths about the...

Did Jinnah actually foresee the possibility of India's pronounced secular democracy turning into a not-so-secular,...

1 April 2022 11:26 PM IST

Saffron flags lie outside a mosque a day after communal clashes in Jahangirpuri, a neighborhood in northwest Delhi, Sunday, April 17, 2022. (AP Photo)

Aakar Patel | Failure of India's bureaucrats to stand up for what's...

It means that the entire bureaucracy is fine with the violence against minorities catalysed by the State

31 May 2022 12:31 AM IST

Police attempt to detain Popular Front of India (PFI) and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) workers during a protest against the raid of National Investigation Agency (NIA), in Hubballi, (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Isolate PFI over ideology

The PFI has fed itself on Indian Muslim's sense of alienation and insecurity under a dispensation controlled by the...

30 Sept 2022 12:15 AM IST

Modi and India: 2024 and the Battle for Bharat by Rahul Shivshankar and Siddhartha Talya. (Image: Twitter)

Pavan K. Varma | Road to Bharat is riddled with pitfalls of Hindutva

Cultural colonisation takes decades after that to be erased, and India is a good example to illustrate this.

24 Dec 2023 12:09 AM IST

Prime Minister and senior BJP leader Narendra Modi with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Home Minister Amit Shah during celebrations after partys victory in elections to the Legislative Assemblies of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, at BJP headquarters, in New Delhi (PTI Photo/Kamal Singh)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | 2024 Game On; But Cong, Opp. Need to Act...

The reasons behind the BJP's victory in this round -- Modi factor, Hindutva, welfarism and party machinery -- may not...

6 Dec 2023 12:00 AM IST

AA Edit | End obsession with the past

India should stop fighting with its past. It should take the problems of the present head on and secure the future of...

1 March 2023 12:15 AM IST

Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah addresses a public meeting in Tuensang, Nagaland, Tuesday, Feb 21, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Is Amit Shah's 300 vow a self-fulfilling prophecy?

There are several reasons why the BJP can both believe and work towards a repeat of the incredible performance of 2019

13 April 2023 12:10 AM IST

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin (PTI)

AA Edit | Opp. must win war of ideas: Social justice is a good start

Its compelling power was so strong that no party felt comfortable abstaining from it, making Mr Stalin achieve his first...

8 April 2023 1:17 AM IST

A new generation of RSS and BJP leaders are not inclined to update the Hindutva ideology because their basic presumption of glorifying a dead national past is their basic principle. (Photo:PTI)

Aakar Patel | Targeting others': How will it benefit India or brighten...

The Hindutva State has introduced discriminatory and exclusionary laws and policies on citizenship, food, divorce,...

4 April 2023 12:20 AM IST

Hindutva is a direct derivative of the name of the land of the Indus whereas Bharat derives from respected ancient Indian epic lore. (Image: Freepik)

Farrukh Dhondy | What's in a name? From Persia to Iran & Mumbai: The...

Ironically, the ideological embrace of the powers that want to change the name of India to Bharat is called Hindutva .

16 Sept 2023 12:05 AM IST

The temple is built on the razed site of the Babri Masjid. The January 22, 2024 consecration of the 51-inch idol christened Balak Ram (Image:PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Modi has set his target, does BJP know where it's...

The Ram Janmabhoomi movement and the gruelling cross-country journey of the Ram Rath led by Lal Krishna Advani was...

26 Jan 2024 12:00 AM IST

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee arrives at the Assembly to cast her vote for the RS polls. (Photo: PTI)

Communalism has no place in Bengal, says Mamata Banerjee

Banerjee has accused the BJP of stoking communal tension in the state to fan Hindutva ideology.

22 May 2018 5:49 AM IST