Election verdict is not the end of politics in India

'Mr Modi's next challenger/s will need to invent a new politics,' says Shekhar Gupta. Photograph: Manvender Vashist/PTI Photo An epoch has ended in Indian politics exactly after three decades. A......

T V R Shenoy: Farewell to a very special friend

Mr T V R Shenoy, who contributed columns to Rediff.com from its birth, passed into the ages on Tuesday evening.As we grieve and mourn his passing, Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar bids adieu to an......

Have the lives of young Dalits changed?

'It is very hard to get the police to file a report against someone from an upper caste.''Things are so bad that sometimes we have to sit on a dharna with the body of a Dalit victim to get the......

'Only Brahmins can defeat Brahminism'

'To all those then who talk about ending Brahminical hegemony, my advice is: Get the Brahmins on your side,' says Syed Firdaus Ashraf. IMAGE: Dalits block a highway during the Maharashtra bandh,......