Jan 26, 2023 The politics of cow can’t be decoded without appreciating a genuine cultural rift that pervades several spheres, linguistic to ideological.
Jan 05, 2023 The year will also see how Congress leader Rahul Gandhi engages with politics after Bharat Jodo Yatra and the attempts of Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee to expand their base.
Dec 31, 2022 For me as a journalist, the year 2022 began with election coverage in Uttar Pradesh followed by a visit to Kashmir and ended with the Gujarat assembly elections.
Dec 22, 2022 Any attack on the court in bad faith erodes the trust in the judicial system, undermines the rule of law and leads to anarchy.
Dec 09, 2022 Though the Congress has been routed in Gujarat by the BJP, its impressive win in Himachal has given it a cause to cheer
Dec 05, 2022 'Like the 2001 earthquake, it was an accident. Gujarat got a bad name because of 2002. That is not how Gujaratis behave,' Gujarat BJP chief spokesperson Yamal Vyas told Outlook.
Dec 01, 2022 Behind the rise of Modi is the collective angst against perceived injustices of the Congress, an anti-Muslim stance and Sangh’s spadework
Nov 30, 2022 Life assumes a different hue when you see it beyond the GDP, as you can hear the poetry of silence and ambivalence that Bastar weaves. Excerpts from award-winning book, 'The Death Script'
Nov 24, 2022 Life assumes a different hue when you see it beyond the GDP, as you can hear the poetry of silence and ambivalence that Bastar weaves. Excerpts from award-winning book, 'The Death Script'
Nov 17, 2022 Though the new Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge is a veteran organisation man, whether the Gandhis will give him a carte blanche or not is a moot question
Nov 10, 2022 Caught between a deeply religious citizenry and a religion-driven polity, secularism is facing threat both as an ideal and as a practice
Nov 03, 2022 More than the display of jingoism and chauvinism, sports is about the weak taking on the mighty and humbling them
Oct 31, 2022 The induction of aircraft carrier INS Vikrant into the Indian Navy has come at a time of increasing strategic competition in Asian seas and debates over the role of carriers in context of a rising China.
Oct 28, 2022 The Indian Army is all set to up the ante on modernising itself, says Lt General Shantanu Dayal, Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Capability Development and Sustenance), to Ashutosh Bhardwaj in an exclusive interview
Oct 20, 2022 From the most benign to the most destructive, Lord Shiva remains a mystery who defies definition. Attempts to appropriate him may not succeed.
Oct 28, 2022 In the space between what we say and what we leave out rests the intentions and deceptions of a literary text
Sep 28, 2022 If Tulsidas made Ram a self-effacing family man and king to be worshipped, the Ayodhya movement lent him a political identity. Tulsidas’s Ram was a stoic and gentle being. L.K. Advani’s Ram is an electoral warrior.
Oct 13, 2022 The major thrust to privatisation arrived in the era of neoliberalism in the 1980s, and soon a policy argument emerged that saw privatisation a necessary step to strengthen the economy. It was perhaps a political tool to entrench capital into various economies and make their return to government regulation difficult.
Sep 22, 2022 If the Ram Temple movement established the saffron outfit in the Hindi belt, the Hubballi campaign catapulted it to power in the state
Sep 02, 2022 Hubbli’s Eidgah Maidan holds a similar place in Karnataka as Ayodhya has in north India. If the temple movement strengthened the BJP in Hindi-speaking states, the Eidgah campaign of the 1990s led by the Sangh Parivar eventually brought the party to power in Karnataka.
Sep 14, 2022 Ancient Indian texts stand testimony to the multiplicity of gender roles that were normalised in society
Sep 15, 2022 Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel was among the leaders who were present when Rahul Gandhi recently launched his Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari.
Mar 17, 2022 Hindi Diwas: The silence of major writers suggests that the rightward shift of the Hindi heartland was inevitable.
Apr 28, 2022 The move to make Hindi the national language is a political project, the language becoming a tool for constructing national unity
May 26, 2022 As the campaign to remove the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi gains momentum, another Ayodhya looms large over India.