While much work has been done on exploring and exposing communalism in India, relatively little attempt has been made to understand its conjoined twin, secularism. ...
05:54 PM, Feb 13, 2013
Muslims are seeking a new narrative in Gujarat beyond victimhood The land of historic Gandhian satyagrahas like Kheda, Bardoli and the Dandi March, Gujarat ...
08:37 AM, Dec 12, 2012
Two decades is almost a third of the journey that independent India has covered since 1947. It's been a long journey, chequered with events that ...
12:39 PM, Dec 06, 2012
A new lexicon is needed to create a new relationship Old ghosts have a way of re-appearing. Manmohan Singh has warned senior police officers ...
07:22 AM, Sep 12, 2012
Mangalore has been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently. On July 28, a band of around fifty hooligans belonging to the Hindu ...
11:42 AM, Aug 07, 2012
"Who knows for certain? Who shall here declare it? Whence was it born, whence came creation? The gods are later than this world's ...
10:20 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Films are dangerous. Ask the person who named 'Kali-Ma', the beer named after the Hindu goddess Kali. The beer, by the Burnside Brewing Company based ...
11:16 AM, May 16, 2012
On 13 February, I wished Pramod Muthalik a 'Happy Valentine's Day' in advance! To my surprise, Muthalik, whose Sri Rama Sene, known for its strident ...
04:13 PM, Feb 20, 2012
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'Unity in Diversity' - the term was coined by Jawaharlal Nehru and later used by the eminent historian D D Kosambi to refer to the ...
03:42 PM, Oct 31, 2011
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Narendra Modi is always in the news but news about Modi is always read differently by different people. The facts looked simple. The Supreme ...
05:51 PM, Sep 16, 2011
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Controversies in India fail to have endings. It is not just that they are incomplete in terms of resolutions, they convey a sense of perpetual ...
02:56 PM, Jun 10, 2011
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While liberals dismiss Baba Ramdev's anti-graft agitation as an aberration, there is a clear-cut agenda in his politics. It is intrinsically linked to a revival ...
02:50 PM, Jun 10, 2011
