'The past has a knack of exploding in our faces'

'People beat their chests when the Babri Masjid was brought down, not realising that it was just one event in a chain going back centuries; to look at the last link or two in isolation is absurd.'......

'Everyone who lives here are Hindus'

'The idea of Hindu Rashtra is one of the most inclusive concepts.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com A Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharak's book The RSS: Roadmaps For the 21st Century is......

'It was Maulana Azad who set up IITs with full support of Nehru'

'It was Maulana Azad's foresight which created the IITs, UGC, science academies across the country.' IMAGE: From left to right, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, president of the Indian National Congress;......

What the first Indians tell us about ourselves

'India is a strange place.''On the one hand we have the most advanced science working on our origins and our ancestry.''On the other we are at war with ourselves over a temple to a god whom our......