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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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

While the debate around the best prime minister of India mostly converges around three names – Lal Bahadur Shastri, PV Narasimha Rao and Atal Bihari Vajpayee but there are simply too ...

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 ...

Modi walking the Sheikh Zayed mosque was a unique sight for most of his loyal followers and his steadfast critics. I am not really a big fan of the politics of ...

Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar is an oft-mocked man these days. Especially since the man he derided as a Chaiwallah, ended up becoming the PM. Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar is an IFS ...

Treaty of Allahabad 1765 On this fateful day in 1765, Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II signed away India to the British by signing the treaty of Allahabad, thereby, unwittingly inaugurating 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 ...

A republic like ours depends on our representatives. Their job was to make a case for their constituents. Their dharma was to tread according to their moral and practical compasses. But ...

People from more ‘important’ trades might belittle the importance of cinema. But cinema has carried tradition, history, culture and storytelling on its shoulders for a while now. People call it frivolous, ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched an all-out assault on the ruling coalition led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad at the Parivartan rally today in Gaya, in Bihar. Assembly ...