Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar have a long, complicated past behind them. Both are products of anti-Congress student movements of the 70s, both were influenced by the Socialist ideologue Ram ...
More interesting than reading history is interpreting it. Though remembering dates and names may be a necessary evil for some as they come handy in debates, lost in the trivia is ...
The thundering silence of media on the recent riots at Baduria and Basirhat in West Bengal is a stark contrast to the brouhaha the campaign "Not in my name" carried. The ...
If I delete ‘’Why do’’ from the title the rest becomes a widespread statement, rather a fact that "Indian men rape ‘’ or ‘’Only Indian men rape.’’ Before I begin I ...
Relations between Jerusalem and New Delhi have not always been warm, though Israel has been a good friend of India, but New Delhi has always continued to shy from demonstrating its ...
For those of us who have followed the #NotInMyName movement, it always was a communally skewed narrative that portrayed Hindus as oppressors and Muslims as the oppressed. Quite quickly, as it ...
At the very outset it needs to be stated that one cannot condone the death of an innocent man by the means of mob violence. On one hand the democracy gives ...
In the three years of the NDA government, the BJP has been utterly incompetent at handling the media narrative. Time and again, they have abandoned their supporters who often go at ...
In the deluge of reportage on the supposedly “random” Facebook post #Notinmyname that went viral and was followed by mobilized protests across 15 cities in India, not one thought it was ...
The anti Modi political clout plummeting to new lows hatched yet another conspiracy called #NotInMyName aimed against a particular Indian community purely for electoral gains. It is not new for the ...
A news channel recently put on air a new report on conversions in Kerala. Times Now did a groundbreaking expose on the systematic manner in which these conversions are being carried ...
There was a time when Hindu seers would be abdicated for crossing the oceans for Sagara-Ullangana and until as recently as 2008 this culture was very much prevalent where the Puttige ...
