Apoorvanand

One of Hindi literature’s early modernists grapples with urbanity, caste and sexuality

The struggle to lead, and search for, an authentic life enliven Mohan Rakesh’s characters. A major Hindi writer gets an anthology we deserve.

It’s the 70th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s ­assassination. And it’s time we fulfilled our part of a long-neglected compact.

1967 marked a ­definite ­rightward shift with the end of the Congress monopoly over Indian democracy

A beloved freedom fighter, then a reviled nation-builder. The pain of being Nehru.

There is no discussion on the breach of security to Mr. Hamid Ansari. Everyone is busy discussing the role of Jinnah in the British period of the Indian history. One feels like screaming, my dear fellow, Jinnah is not the issue.

What is it in the sectarian groups formed in the name of Hindutva that places them on a different pedestal incapable of violence?

Supreme Court overturned the Gujarat High Court directive to the state government to get the religious places repaired which were destroyed in 2002 riots

To be born a Dalit in this country is in itself a curse even in the days when the ruling classes flaunt an unspeaking, smiling, sweet, cute Dalit as their prized possession for the topmost post of this country.

It betrays a faulty understanding within these parties that Hindus cannot be talked to about what is happening in the country.

Even the Congress would rather not remember him for his memory poses difficult questions to them, about their reluctance to stand and fight for the rights of the minorities...

Neither PM Narendra Modi nor chief ministers uttered a word on cow vigilantes running riot and killing people but Pakistan’s PM and leaders condemned student killing

Ashoka, father of Sanghamitra and Mahendra, is not remembered in Bihar or elsewhere as a conqueror but as who went to Buddhism in his quest for a rightful, non-violent way of life

He was not the first or last revolutionary to be killed by the British but none could capture the imagination of the people of India the way he did.