Is it a bhoomi puja for a Hindu Rashtra?

The choice of August 5 as the day of the bhoomi puja coincides with the abolition of Kashmir's special status on the same day a year ago.Perhaps the RSS-BJP wants August 5 to be remembered as the......

From the Raj to Azadi, how I saw India change

As a child in British India, Bharati Dutt lived a privileged and sheltered life in an extended joint family of civil servants, doctors, engineers and Gandhians. Between the ages of seven and 11,......

From raja to praja:Jyotiraditya's likely role in BJP

They will fawn over a prize catch who has brought a rich dowry of Gwalior-Chambal politicians.But in the end, all BJP members are prajas of Amit Shah and Narendra Modi, notes Sunanda K Datta-Ray.......

Kejriwal to take oath on Feb 16 along with his team

Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal, who spearheaded the party's landslide victory in the Delhi Assembly polls, will take oath as the chief minister for the third consecutive time in a grand......

'Dhoni is a very good One-day leader, an average-to-poor Test captain...'

It's a lump-in-the-throat moment for Indians to see their team knocked out in the semis by Australia, but clearly the better team on the day made it to the final.For India, it was a long and......