'Hinduism gives you the freedom to deny God'
'Making Gita a national book is paying lip service'
'Many have read them. Many know the verses. May hear the interpretations. But few actually get it. If you get it, you will be at peace even in the midst of war. You will not be outraged,' says Devdutt Pattanaik about the Bhagavad Gita 'The Parliament attack did not raise enough national concern'
C D Sahay, former chief of the Research and Analysis Wing, spoke of the events that led up to the Parliament attack. Arvind Kejriwal: 'No one is born corrupt, system makes you so'
'Govt can't act if its every policy is voted over in Parliament'
'We need an intelligence czar in the country'
Intelligence veteran Anil Choudhary gives insight into why NTRO, which reports to the prime minister's office, failed to come up to expectations. He also suggests how India could tighten its security apparatus. 'We tried telling the terrorists to surrender, but they refused'
'NIA can't be only agency probing terror'
'Is minority reservation the only way out?'
'Do you think the Christians will not fight back?'
'I do not know any Anna Hazare, have no comments on him'
Dr Ashok Ganguly, former chairman of Hindustan Lever and a Rajya Sabha MP, and one of the signatories to the recent open letter to the government by a group of 14 eminent people, speaks about the issues raised in the letter. 'We will fight tooth and nail to keep Andhra Pradesh united'
'We are not ready to call Hyderabad a Union Territory'
'Selection of information commissioners is arbitrary'
'India's police force is pathetic': Fareed Zakaria
Kejriwal: 'I will not compromise with corruption'
'CBI flouted normal procedures in arresting Reddy'
In this exclusive interview to rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa, senior advocate Nagesh explains the case of Janardhan Reddy and also what their strategy would be in the days to come. 'Anna should allow doctors to administer a drip'
Rediff.com's Toral Varia, who has been covering Anna Hazare's fast at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan, spoke to prominent civil society member Swami Agnivesh on the way ahead for the team Anna. Hype over Lokpal stir has blinded Team Anna: Aruna
Aruna Roy, prominent member of civil society, chairman of the National Campaign for People's Right to Information, and an alternative voice in the ongoing debate on the Lokpal Bill, speaks to Rediff.com 'Without Sonia Gandhi this government is in coma'
The second part of lawyer and brain behind the Anna Hazare campaign, Prashant Bhushan's interview to rediff.com's . 'Arundhati Roy doesn't know anything about Hazare'
Prashant Bhushan is a lawyer and one of the senior leaders and brains behind the Anna Hazare-led anti-corruption movement for a stronger Lokpal bill. The movement is set to add a historic, new chapter in India's parliamentary democracy. 'Madrassas in India are not schools of hate'
Dr Arshad Alam, who teaches at the Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies at the Jamia Millia Islamia, it is essential that madrassas are brought under the control of the state so that education imparted there is modernised 'Lokpal is no magical bullet against corruption'
Nandan Nilekani, the chairperson of Unique Identification Authority of India and former Infosys CEO, has said that activist Anna Hazare's protest was unjustified when the Lokpal Bill was before Parliament for consideration. Desi young man eyes US Congress
Rickey Gill, the young US Republican Congressional hopeful from California, speaks to Ritu Jha Exclusive: Gowda's first interview as K'taka CM
Sadananda Gowda, who assumed charge as Karnataka chief minister on Thursday, has a tough task ahead. Ironically, that task is not the administration of the state, but to keep the Bharatiya Janata Party flock in Karnataka together. Exclusive! Sadananda Gowda's first interview
'I have faced many hurdles in the past and with the support of the party workers and my colleagues I have managed to get away with it. But all of you will have to give me some time before I figure things out, but rest assured, everything will fall into place.' Sadananda Gowda speaks to Vicky Nanjappa ahead of his swearing-in as Karnataka chief minister 'Pakistan must stop wasting water, blaming India'
Gitanjali Bakshi, who recently authored a report titled 'The Indus Equation' for the Strategic Foresight Group, states that water shortage problems in Pakistan are not a case of obstruction by external forces but rather a case of wastage and unequal distribution by internal forces. 'Dalits still live as the wretched of the earth'
Mumbai-based Anand Teltumbde is a leading scholar-activist who has written extensively on issues related to caste, class, imperialism and globalisation. In an interview with Yoginder Sikand, he reflects on the Dalit movement in the era of globalisation. 'Most Dalit groups remain fixated on reservations'
Mumbai-based Anand Teltumbde is a leading scholar-activist who has written extensively on issues related to caste, class, imperialism and globalisation. In an interview with Yoginder Sikand, he reflects on the Dalit movement in the era of globalisation. 'Bengalis committed atrocities during 1971 war'
Sarmila Bose's book on the 1971 Bangladesh War -- Dead Reckoning -- has triggered a heated debate about the myths and realities of the conflict that had engulfed East Pakistan, West Pakistan and India. We politicians have let India down: Jaswant Singh
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh tells Aditi Phadnis about his fears for India, various policies and stance taken by the government and the global environment. 'Human lives are not important in India'
In an interview with rediff.com's Shobha Warrier, consumer rights activist S Pushpavanam talks about the spate of rail accidents in the last few days and what the civil society can do about this. 'Human lives are not important in India'
In an interview with rediff.com's Shobha Warrier, consumer rights activist S Pushpavanam talks about the spate of rail accidents in the last few days and what the civil society can do about this. 'Treasure belongs to the temple and nobody else'
In this interview to rediff.com's Shobha Warrier, Professor MG Sashibhushan goes back centuries to trace how the riches reached the erstwhile Travancore Royal family and the Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple. 'Treasure belongs to the temple and nobody else'
In this interview to rediff.com's Shobha Warrier, Professor MG Sashibhushan goes back centuries to trace how the riches reached the erstwhile Travancore Royal family and the Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple. 'The themes of my novel are universal'
Debutante novelist Kamala Nair speaks to . 'India and the US may never be allies'
In an exclusive interview, Strobe Talbott, a key protagonist in resurrecting the United States-India relationship after India's nuclear tests in May 1998, talks about the US-India relations, Iran and the Pakistan situation to Rediff.com's . March - July 2011 | January - February 2011 | November - December 2010 | August - October 2010 | June - July 2010 | February - May 2010