It hasn't taken long for the ill-effects of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) aggressive espousal of the nationalist cause to be felt outside its...

The beauty of an open society is that its air of freedom has a calming effect on fundamentalists.They soon realise that their chest-thumping display...

The similarities between the views of Donald Trump, the Republican Party hopeful in the US presidential campaign, and the BJP hawks in India are too...

Few people will have any objection chanting “Bharat Mata ki Jai” (Glory to Mother India), but are unlikely to accept the thought of being compelled to...

On the day Finance Minister Arun Jaitley claimed the BJP had won the ideological war in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) battle because student...

It is understandable why the BJP has been unnerved by the ongoing student unrest rather than by the protests of the established parties. When the BJP...

A pattern appears to have evolved in the Parliament with Rahul Gandhi sticking to his post-sabbatical practice of breathing fire and Narendra Modi...

Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani was all fire and brimstone while condemning the praise for Mahishasura, the demon who was slain...

Just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi described MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) as a living monument to the Congress’s...

It was inevitable that the kind of muscular nationalism favoured by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would lead to hooliganism by its followers among...

The similarity between what took place in Hyderabad Central University last month and is happening now in New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University...

India has rarely been so disgraced as by the assault on a group of Africans in Bengaluru, the country’s vaunted Silicon Valley. Yet, this city, which...