The committee has also recommended highlighting 'Hindu victories' in various battles in the textbooks. IMAGE: A girl reads a book at a roadside book stall in Nagpur. Image used only for......
By changing the nation's name from India to Bharat, would this landmass overnight lose the emotional and cultural linkage that had been built over generations, centuries and millennia, asks N......
The Vishnu Purana, notes A K Bhatacharya, ends on a sombre note, but not without offering the hope that those who chant Vishnu's name can still reclaim dharma. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com......
The Allahabad high court on Friday adjourned the hearing on the Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi Mosque issue till July 6. IMAGE: Police personnel stand guard outside Gyanvapi Mosque, in Varanasi......
While the DMK fears that the Congress with its poor strike rate will pull it down in the 2021 state elections, like it did five years ago, the ruling AIADMK is worried that the BJP may ultimately......
Deepak Lal looks into the economic origins of cow slaughter bans and their questionable utility In the mid-1960s I and a group of friends from Oxford rented a house from Robert Graves, the poet......
In a career spanning over five decades, Girish Karnad lived several lives... not only on the stage, but also as a scholar, theatre personality, actor and director. Photograph: Kind courtesy Film......
The movie presents a version of Modi that the bhakts want the rest of us to see, feels Utkarsh Mishra. When the trailer of Omung Kumar’s PM Narendra Modi was released, a......
Settled into my plush theater seat, watching as Guru Pitka [Mike Myers] dispenses new-age wisdom, cheekily drops sexual innuendos, and lusts after Jane [Jessica Alba] all in the same scene, I hear......