The BJP’s keenness to wave again the magic wand that helped it beat Mandal in the 1990s­ could be a sign that the ruling party’s 2019 script will have a ‘mandir accomplished’ theme

The millennials exist in a state of happy unmemory, but what has it really wrought?

On Ram Navami in 1859, itinerant mendicant Vishnu Bhatt visited Ayodhya and left a vivid account of the festivites, immortalising a single moment in a long and complex tale. Shockingly, there is no reference to the Babri Masjid in his account. Overleaf, a timeline highlighting the origins and development of the dispute.

A chronology of events related to Babri Masjid- Ram Janmabhoomi

RSS seldom hides its ‘Hindu rashtra’ agenda, only puts it on the ‘backburner’ sometimes. A true nationalistic movement alone can counter its march.

December 6 fundamentally changed something about Indian polity. Now is an apt time to repair the cracks, reach a solution and move on.

It can’t be without reason that the RSS now says a mandir alone will come up at the disputed site. The Sangh has been carving a Hindu India since ’92.

The majority of Indians, who revere Ram and his birthplace, will settle for nothing less than a Ram temple at the exact spot where the mosque stood

A Muslim photographer recalls December 6, 1992, when he was at Babri Masjid

The Then Union home secretary, Madhav Godbole, recalls situation surrounding the Babri Masjid demolition.

Black Friday, which was later made into a film, shows the vicious cycle: revenge for Babri triggered Mumbai blasts, which led to the Gujarat riots

Until the Left and the Centre revisit Gandhi’s Rama, the Right will continue to monopolise the religious idiom of the masses.

A year after Jayalalitha’s death, Tamil Nadu continues to be in a state of political flux

In the age of Aadhar, how important is cyber security? Dr Ajay Kumar, additional scretary of Ministry of Electronics and IT says it's "challenging"

Algorithms and SEO make ­journalism a pure commodity in the digital market at the cost of traditional ethics

Kohli talked about lack of preparation time, but fatigue also stalks the overworked Indian cricketers. Their master, the Board, just doesn’t care.

Young Carnatic musicians, born or living in the US, are shifting base to Chennai as full-time performers

In her 150th year, Dhanammal continues to epitomise nuanced, delicate music

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Today, Ayodhya is full of Ram temples that claim to be built at the birthplace of Ram. The reason is obvious. Any temple that establishes itself as the birthplace of Ram gets huge donations from devotees, writes filmmaker Anand Patwardhan.

Meet BSP's "chillar" candidate in Gujarat; Why are crows dying a mysterious death in Assam's Sonitpur. Read all the juicy tidbits here...

A new biography of Gorbachev charts his career—his grand policies which he couldn’t enforce, and his concessions to the West that weren’t reciprocated

The trading economy of Indian cotton and its colonial destruction are described well in this journey. It’s in its recent miles that there are gaps.

A doting biography from a wife charts Rajesh Pilot’s life. Yet as regards some high points of his political life, this is a curiously incomplete account.

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