BJP’s renaming frenzy—Hindu-friendly names in war against Islamic ones
Every church sings its own soft part. In Mizoram, the faithful looks up to it for guidance and for free and fair polls.
A regular column on the essential buzz
In The Subcontinental Menu this week, read about Assam’s state health department which released a list of promotions featuring name of a registrar who had died and at why few contractual employees at Tirupti temple decided to smuggle out laddus.
The BJP is on the backfoot in Gwalior-Morena, where Dalits and elite castes are both a disgruntled lot
Tiger conservation is not about numbers. It seems to be a complex, uphill task, involving a multitude of stakeholders, requiring rigorous engagement and massive consensus building.
Among the victims in Kashmir is a special category: people with mental issues, dying while wandering
In its ‘Hindu Lite’ avatar, Congress has abdicated on one of the biggest issues of our times when it could have been of genuine use.
The 26/11 frame is an apt one to survey and take stock of India’s readiness and/or vulnerabilities today. Sheer shock and awe ensured it was a day of reckoning for India’s internal security apparatus: its strengths and weaknesses were on public display.
A regular column on the essential buzz
In this week's The Subcontinental Menu, read about why a 15-year-old boy in Assam was forced to marry a 60-year-old woman and how you can be a billionaire, yet poor in Pakistan.
EPS’s fate hinges on bypolls to 20 assembly seats
Some 50 Kashmiri militants were killed near their homes in 2017. That number is increasing. Why?
Insulating PM Modi from accusations as election season hots up is top priority for the BJP. The rest can be managed, they say.
