Nitish Kumar’s anti-alcohol package may be a classic socially-themed blockbuster in the recognisable traditions of the Indian nation-state, but it is scarily disdainful of history and ground realities

Muslims are no different from people of other families, communities, or nations—equally capable of good or wrongdoing.

The state is not as communally polarised as neighbouring UP and Bihari sub-nationalism had a stronger pull than religious issues in the polls

What did the pollsters expect by creating a phantasmagoria of a BJP win?

Bihar politicians have dropped their effective policy approach to pander for votes among Backward classes. Will their bid to shake the BJP pay off?

By Rahul Govind Delhi The primitive is magnetic in its pull. […]

Taliban capturing Swat. ‘Special Pakistani Forces’ of trained jihadis penetrating the LoC in Kashmir. America playing a double game. Is the Indian government at all serious about this apocalyptic threat?

The bucolic settlement in Durban where Mahatma Gandhi began nurturing his long commitment to unrelenting humanism has finally been turned into a South African heritage site