The Karnataka CM has intensified the pitch to assert regional identity ahead of the Assembly elections.
...Full StoryThe public is largely in the dark about his role in the note-ban exercise.
...Full StoryThe situation India finds itself in today can partly be blamed on the laundering of Hindutva forces that JP allowed to happen.
...Full StoryBelong to middle or upper castes and classes, and try to look the part.
...Full StoryMany women wept over her demise but do they know how many of their kind she let down?
...Full StoryBy undermining people's livelihoods, the Modi regime has pushed humanity into a crisis.
...Full StoryHemant Morparia's 'Meanwhile in Nigeria' is wrong on many levels.
...Full StoryA sensible solution to the dispute lies in the people of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu agreeing on the ways the water will be put to use.
...Full StoryBangalore fracas akin to the smearing of JNU students.
...Full StoryIndian newspaper and TV coverage has been shamefully one-sided.
...Full StoryGovernment has issued 22 ordinances in just two years of being in power.
...Full StoryThe Dalit 'monopoly' on this job needs to go.
...Full StoryHow the predominance of us, Savarna Hindu-born hacks, is suffocating alternative voices.
...Full StoryThe newspaper tells us how to pronounce a Tamil word, but there are problems both on the vowel and consonant fronts.
...Full StoryThe government has been pilloried for letting one flee and allowing another take over a river to pander to Hindutva vote bank.
...Full StoryWill the 'freedom in India' the PhD scholar talks of be extended to the Adivasis and other oppressed, or will it remain an empty slogan?
...Full StoryThe Hyderabad and JNU fracas reveal Sangh’s fascist bent in bold relief.
...Full StoryWorld's largest democracy remains firmly in the company of a minority of countries that swear by medieval practices.
...Full StoryHalf of the kingdom's population, namely women, have few rights and whose employers of foreign workers treat them as chattel and worse.
...Full StoryActivists like him gain importance as they seek to protect not only the rights of their own denominations but of other minorities too.
...Full StoryA great deal more of such unfinished business is in store in Modi-fied India.
...Full StoryThere is a clamour for superpower status even as in terms of social indicators, the country ranks with the worst in the world.
...Full StoryThe nation wants to know how many thousands of crores of rupees are going to be spent on keeping him alive and for how long.
...Full StoryThe former president of India rose through the ranks of the Indian scientific establishment with his firm backing for hawkish causes such as nuclear weaponisation and missile development.
...Full StoryThe deaths of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, convicted of narcotic crimes, are seen as an attempt to aid the state's vested interest.
...Full StoryThe prime minister has breezed through his current Europe tour with no questions asked about his role in the Gujarat riots.
...Full StoryOne hopes the Supreme Court will not be swayed by anti-activist opinions when it takes up the hearing of Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand.
...Full StoryThe lynch mob against Surinder Koli stemmed from complete ignorance on the details of the case and the circumstances in which it was adjudicated.
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