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No more Modi Sarkar? After months of cacophonous campaigning, Bihar has announced its decision to go with Nitish Kumar. Results pointed at an overwhelming desire of the electorate to give another ...

After a protracted election campaign, the Bihar elections finally ended on the 5th of November, Guy Fawke’s day, or for those who prefer the movie version, V for Vendetta day. Sealed ...

Arundhati Roy has returned her national award. Clearly, the Modi government is doing something right.   Many small fish returned their national awards recently. We weren’t aware of their existence before ...

Bihari electorate is complicated. It is not an easy thing to perform a pre-elections or post-elections survey or even an exit poll and comfortably reach to a conclusion. Bihar Elections 2015 ...

Here is our Response to Anand Patwardhan 's article "Why I am returning my national film award" published in Scroll.in   Anand Patwardhan: National awards have always meant a lot to ...

A political party facing an existential crisis has decided to hold the entire country to ransom for its survival. Sonia Gandhi along with her followers organized a march to protest against ...

I hate this intolerant body of mine. It doesn’t allow me to take out my brain and rinse it thoroughly. If not that, at least I should have the right to ...

Kiren Rijiju, Nehru and the great betrayal of '62 Kiren Rijiju stirred a hornet's nest recently when he claimed that Nehru had given up Assam to the Chinese during the '62 ...

2047, Assam's indigenous population will be a minority, indicates a report submitted by the Hazarika commission to the Supreme Court; thanks to the massive influx of the Bangladeshi population. Hazarika commission ...

Dear Award returnees, who your "ALS ice bucket challenge" is really directed against? Returning awards has become the latest fad in India amongst the creative fraternity. This entire episode reminds me ...

Another spree of In-Love-With-Pakistan has been successfully launched. This time it is about people putting their profile pictures with handwritten messages like this “I am and Indian. I don't hate Pakistanis. ...

As George Orwell writes in his Masterpiece, 1984, "To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which ...