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The contradictions behind the Shrikant Verma Trust controversy

New Delhi, Sept. 22 -- At the end of the Shrikant Verma Shikhar Samman ceremony, Abhishek Verma, on behalf of the Shrikant Verma Trust, said that literature should be kept completely separate from pol... Read More


Why the Manusmriti row exposes the myth of Hindu unity

New Delhi, Aug. 31 -- When Rahul Gandhi attacked the "Manusmriti mentality" as part of his assault on patriarchy, why did so many Hindus feel so outraged? Even Hindus who are critics of the RSS have b... Read More


Bhagwat's platitudes, and the caste truth the RSS cannot outrun

New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- An old saying, "an empty vessel makes the most sound," came back to me once again while listening to Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), address the yo... Read More


How the RSS stops the young from becoming students

New Delhi, Aug. 3 -- Rahul Gandhi's statement in Parliament-"The RSS does not allow the young to become students"-should have been a media headline the next day. TV channels should have made it their ... Read More


Beyond Sonam Wangchuk

New Delhi, July 18 -- If the BJP government believes that removing Sonam Wangchuk from public view has also removed the collapse of the education system from public debate, it may be living under an i... Read More


The price of compassion

New Delhi, July 6 -- On Muharram this year, a photograph from Kasaragod in Kerala travelled widely across social media. It showed Irfana Iqbal-a member of the Indian Union Muslim League and the Kasara... Read More