Ashutosh Bhardwaj | Author at https://www.outlookindia.com
The politics of cow can’t be decoded without appreciating a genuine cultural rift that pervades several spheres, linguistic to ideological.
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.
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.
Any attack on the court in bad faith erodes the trust in the judicial system, undermines the rule of law and leads to anarchy.
Though the Congress has been routed in Gujarat by the BJP, its impressive win in Himachal has given it a cause to cheer
'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.
Behind the rise of Modi is the collective angst against perceived injustices of the Congress, an anti-Muslim stance and Sangh’s spadework
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'
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'
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
Caught between a deeply religious citizenry and a religion-driven polity, secularism is facing threat both as an ideal and as a practice
More than the display of jingoism and chauvinism, sports is about the weak taking on the mighty and humbling them
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.
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
From the most benign to the most destructive, Lord Shiva remains a mystery who defies definition. Attempts to appropriate him may not succeed.
In the space between what we say and what we leave out rests the intentions and deceptions of a literary text
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.
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.
If the Ram Temple movement established the saffron outfit in the Hindi belt, the Hubballi campaign catapulted it to power in the state
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.
Ancient Indian texts stand testimony to the multiplicity of gender roles that were normalised in society
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel was among the leaders who were present when Rahul Gandhi recently launched his Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari.
Hindi Diwas: The silence of major writers suggests that the rightward shift of the Hindi heartland was inevitable.
The move to make Hindi the national language is a political project, the language becoming a tool for constructing national unity
As the campaign to remove the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi gains momentum, another Ayodhya looms large over India.