The former president's speech, which will clearly be lost on the RSS, was the big farce.
...Full StoryThere is no way to erase the remnants of the long journey India has undertaken before it turned into a republic.
...Full StoryMedia has ironically become a bigger story right now than even the spectre of fascism looming over this democracy.
...Full StoryThe intertwining of 'religion and government' is going to be Congress president's biggest political battle.
...Full StoryUrdu was born as a language of the commoner in India, but today, like the Taj Mahal, it has become Muslim.
...Full StoryWhy is it that the role of the RSS as the 'parent' organisation of India's ruling party is not properly questioned in public domain?
...Full StoryTriple talaq is a small blip on the road to justice for all.
...Full StoryThe BJP, driven as it is by its anti-Muslim paranoia, could only read his comments as coming from a Muslim.
...Full StoryHow is the form of corruption represented by the likes of Lalu worse than the kind represented by the BJP?
...Full StoryThe well-oiled Sangh machinery excels in double speak, or multiple speak.
...Full StoryExpressions like 'rarest of the rare' are words that reveal our hypocrisy more than the gravity of a crime.
...Full StoryThere is a reason why BJP has made all the elections, including those for civic bodies like Delhi, about PM.
...Full StoryLet me express my deep sense of shock and disgust over an FIR filed against you in Aligarh.
...Full StoryIt's no comedy.
...Full StoryThis is the moment history will one day hold us accountable for by asking a simple question: Did you stand up? With whom?
...Full StoryIndia Today's Nadim Asrar on the possible outcome of the rift within the ruling party of Uttar Pradesh.
...Full StoryIndia Today's Nadim Asrar has all the answers.
...Full StoryWhether or not Una marks a radical beginning as far as casteism among Muslims is concerned, remains to be seen.
...Full StorySince when is questioning the Sangh for its role in Bapu's killing a private matter?
...Full StoryNumbers don't lie.
...Full StoryModi government has unleashed unapologetic Hindutva in the last two years, as it regulates what people eat, wear or speak.
...Full StoryHow do we reconcile the competing motherhoods of the state and its many mothers rejecting it and its brutalities?
...Full StoryHow is the massacre of one minority different from another when the killers were governments in power?
...Full StoryThe excuses being given for privatising the Indian Army are equally baffling.
...Full StoryThe onus is on all of us to prove the student leader wrong that we Indians forget easily. And remember what he stands for.
...Full StoryWill it care for a large community when it knows none of them helped in coming to power?
...Full StoryIt is time the liberal-secular political parties rejected short-term electoral gains and fought what is essentially a war for survival.
...Full StoryIn Kalam and Memon, two theatres of death serve as tactile allegories for our nation.
...Full StoryBJP must lose its hatred and suspicion about Muslims before extending them a hand.
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