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Mr. Hamid Ansari's comment on affirmative action for Indian Muslims comes as a rude shock. That a person holding such a high office should support reservation based on religious affiliation is dangerous ...

Can one get away with inconsistency? How hard is it for anyone to obtain benefits from something that goes against what they stand for? In today’s world, how hard is it ...

As the clock moves a little past midnight I am shocked to come across several unfortunate news pieces coming from the state of Gujarat where the reservation agitation of Patel community ...

The census figure on religion has been released finally today. It was compiled more than four years back. Here are the key takeaways: Percentage growths 0.7%:     As per the 2011 census ...

"Zalimo, O Kafiro, Kashmir hamara chhod do" The streets of Srinagar shook with cries such as these on a cold night in January 1990. The edifice of Kashmiriyat had finally been ...

Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana is a Modi government-backed life insurance scheme. It was originally mentioned in the year 2015 Budget speech by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in February in the year ...

  There is an opinion among some who voted the BJP to power in 2014 that the government isn’t doing enough to justify the mandate it received. They believe that government ...

There is a news report today which talks of how Muslim women in India would like to break free of the shackles that society has placed on them. Honestly, it does not ...

I read an article here that talked of twitter being up in arms over the Union government's attempts to impose Hindi. some Twitterati felt that Modi, by delivering most of his speeches in ...

The issue of religious conversion is a constant and a prominent issue in the political discourse of the nation. For the sake of discussion in this article, I have clubbed the ...

It is common knowledge that it is going to be a head on battle between the Nitish-Lalu socialist alliance and the Bhartiya Janata Party. Although Congress, NCP and SP have sworn ...

On a rather dull weekend for news, where one of the top twitter trends was inexplicably Kanti Shah's cult movie Gunda, one particular piece of breaking news drove social media crazy; ...