The Meerut Conspiracy Case was aimed at curbing communist influence in India. However, it fuelled nationwide sympathy, shaping the course of leftist politics in the country, writes Utkarsh Mishra.......
The point made by sociologist M N Srinivas, that it represented a Sanskritic act that was linked to caste, is never raised in Indian debates and the disapproval of drink is almost universal, notes......
'I have been in the Dalit movement for 27 years, I have not heard of R N Kovind's views on the Dalit agenda.''He is a BJP man among Dalits, not a Dalit man in the BJP.' What does Ram Nath Kovind's......
'KRN's journey from a humble cottage in Uzhavoor to Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi was no less spectacular than that of Abraham Lincoln from the log cabin to the White House,' notes Ambassador T P......
We have our own problems for sure and they are not trivial, but for now, our economy is in not too bad a shape, our politics is as personality-driven and authoritarian as that of most countries in......
'How do you deliver wealth when you don't have the slightest idea about it?' asks T C A Srinivasa Raghavan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com One of the biggest problems that the BJP has is......
If you disregard history and are ready to watch Kesari 2 purely as an entertainer, you are definitely going to enjoy it, notes Utkarsh Mishra. The title of Akshay Kumar's latest period drama......