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This week saw a colossal blunder being rectified in the process of renaming Aurangzeb Road in New Delhi to Bharat Ratna Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Road. No country names roads and ...

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 ...

In a nation where crime against women is not a rare phenomenon, when we see a lady standing for herself what is our first natural reaction?   Good job lady.   ...

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 ...

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 ...

The biggest news to come out of Tamil Nadu over the last few days has been a vociferous call for alcohol prohibition by opposition parties. While prohibition has been a hot ...

In today’s papers in Raipur there’s a harrowing tale. A gang run by a couple kidnaps young girls, has them raped, and convinces them that they have nowhere to go now. ...

Nehru not only excelled in his so called “platonic relationship” with Lady Mountbatten, but also was a clear winner with his liberal values which included British mannerisms and may I add ...

Is death penalty an antidote to terror? Read on Remember Gadkari-Kejriwal affair? When Kejriwal went to jail because he has no substantive reason for calling Gadkari “India’s most corrupt”. At that ...

On On 26th of May 2014, the ever so controversial Narendra Damodardas Modi started his tenure after his swearing-in as the 15th Prime Minister of India. The occasion was grand. The ...

Benjamin Parker in his legendary Spiderman movies says, "With great power comes great responsibility". I think our public figures must watch Spiderman more often. Probably that is what is needed to make ...

There is a section amongst the Indian intelligentsia which romanticizes with the terrorists, Maoists and insurgents. Film directors like Vishal Bhardwaj and Mahesh Bhatt, Self-styled freethinkers like Arundhati Roy and eminent ...