It seems to be the ‘Anything Goes’ season in India this week — if you are in a position of power where you can, with some panache associated with the Queen in Alice’s fabled Wonderland, tell people at whim what […]
By Vikram Raghavan Our republic, which turns 70 today, has many founders. Some are national icons —Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru, BR Ambedkar, and Maulana Azad. They were vitally involved in the debates and decisions of the Constituent […]
Home Minister Zail Singh introduced in the Lok Sabha a Constitution amendment Bill to extend the period of reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, and the representation for the Anglo-Indian community by nomination in the Lok Sabha and the […]
At Kamini Mohan (K.M.) Das Lane in Tikatuli of Old Dhaka, there lies a majestic mansion called “Rose Garden”. Interestingly, it was built to host parties by one of the prominent zamindars of Dhaka, named Hrishikesh Das. He built the […]
Standing almost 35 metres high, Asia’s tallest stone statue of Jesus would look out from a four hectare plot in the Catholic-majority Harobele village on the outskirts of the global technology hub Bangalore, the capital of the southern Indian state […]
Studies suggest a significant proportion of Indian-origin families in Canada are practising female feticide, sex-selective abortion. A disproportionately higher number of male children were born to mothers of Indian origin in Canada, according to research published in the Canadian Medical […]
M K Chandra Bose, Punjab, the land of five rivers (Pan-Jab), has had a turbulent past, replete with sagas of wars, bravery and martyrdom. As the gateway to the subcontinent, Punjab experienced many invasions down the ages, making it a […]
January 3, 2020, marks the 189th birthday of Savitribai Phule, a 19th-century social reformer who played an instrumental role in women’s education and empowerment. Savitribai Phule, the wife of Mahatma Jyotirao Govindrao Phule, was born on January 3, 1831. She […]
For the first time, India is seeing secularism go from a top-down proclamation to a street slogan , For the first time in India’s history, secularism has moved from being a top-down slogan and concern voiced by political leaders and […]
The year that we leave behind was one of the darkest in the journey of our republic, a long night broken suddenly in the last fortnight of the year with the brilliant unexpected light of resistance founded on solidarity, love […]
