The belief in the years immediately after independence that there were two sets of laws in India - one for the rich and the other for the poor - is...

So, the children of Babur (Babur ki aulad), as the BJP and the RSS-led Sangh parivar used to call the Muslims during the Ramjanmabhoomi agitation, are...

From Uttarakhand in July to Bihar in August and now in the assembly by-elections across several states, the results show that the high tide of the...

It has been quite some time now that the RSS chief hasn’t dwelt on his favourite theme of India as a Hindu nation. Nor has any minister in Goa called...

The Congress High Command, which is a pseudonym for party president Sonia Gandhi, must have realised by now that securing a clean chit for the...

In his Anatomy of Fascism, Robert Paxton identified ‘mobilising passions’ as a defining feature of the sectarian creed. Anyone who has followed the...

When a faithful retainer is asked to assess his masters, he has no option but to play safe. Moreover, his servile instincts make him blind to any...

Like the removal of some of the governors appointed by the UPA and the bar on the appointment as private secretaries of those who had served under the...

For the party, the sudden bounty conferred on it by the voters was probably unexpected. There was no indication earlier by any Congressman in...

The BJP’s friends such as the RSS have been advising it against trying to form a government in Delhi with the help of defectors from the Aam Aadmi...

The fact that sectarian sentiments based on caste or region or religion are not as deeply rooted as is common supposed but are really bubbles on the...

Having said before the elections that Narendra Modi was not the right person to be prime minister, Amartya Sen’s recent acceptance of the Gujarat...