We are an equal opportunity platform: Swiggy on demand for non-Muslim delivery workerSwiggy also clarified that such requests are not considered as the assignment of delivery workers is fully automated.
03 Sep, 2022, 05.21 PM IST
Indian-Americans are more liberal towards issues in US, conservative in India: SurveyRegarding contentious issues such as the equal protection of religious minorities, immigration, and affirmative action, Indian-Americans ho...
10 Feb, 2021, 01.10 PM IST
View: The lessons that Hindutva trolls should learn from Mahatma GandhiGandhi was without question a devout Hindu. He was also a fundamental secularist and saw absolutely no contradiction between the two. He sa...
16 Aug, 2020, 10.04 AM IST
From 'Ramayan' to 'Shri Krishna', how Indians sought refuge in mythology & turned to religious dramas in dire timesMeanwhile, on the streets, an epic but tragic drama of another kind is playing out.
23 May, 2020, 05.47 PM IST
View: Polarisation emerges holding its head high from Delhi resultsThe bird’s eye view of secular, democratic politics triumphing over sectarian politics of hate could, in other words, prove bird-brained. T...
11 Feb, 2020, 02.43 PM IST
View: BJP’s Pragya puts supporters in a plightThe intent behind putting up Pragya Thakur in the poll fray is to bring 'Hindu terror' into the electoral discourse.
19 Apr, 2019, 06.28 PM IST
Why Congress should embrace religion and ignore charges of ‘soft Hindutva’Somehow, a perception has formed that Congress is uncomfortable with Hindus and Hinduism, that it bends over backwards for religious minori...
09 Dec, 2017, 09.15 AM IST
View: Will the real anti-national damaging Bharat please stand up?"Our great civilisation is reduced to being associated with petty majoritarian states like Pak or Arab states. We are looking like them: do...
05 Nov, 2017, 06.51 PM IST
View: Does Adityanath have any imagination for the concrete development of UP?The UP mandate gives BJP a chance to answer many questions. The nation — and the world — will be getting an answer in the 2019 Lok Sabha el...
22 Mar, 2017, 01.31 PM IST
Azam Khan hits back at opponents for slamming his UN remarkAmidst outcry over lynching of a 50-year-old Muslim in Dadri, Khan had sought intervention of United Nations to look into the "miseries" of...
07 Oct, 2015, 04.56 PM IST
Hindu Muslim incorporated: A new inter-community contract can emerge through an open economyThis contract cannot be imposed from the top. Instead it must be a contract based on the common aim of modernity, access to market, busines...
15 Oct, 2014, 01.03 PM IST
Ultra-nationalists like Vishwa Hindu Parishad back with NDA govt?RSS spokesperson Manmohan Vaidya, however, denied that there was any misplaced feeling of empowerment and entitlement. “It is not because o...
26 Jul, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Majoritarian politics can bring doom to democraciesDemocracy is not a winner-take-all system in which the majority can assert power without concern for dissenters or alternative voices.
17 Aug, 2013, 05.04 AM IST
LK Advani's rebellion has done the polity a serviceThe short-lived Advani rebellion has forced regional parties to see the BJP for what it is: an organisation guided by the RSS.
12 Jun, 2013, 05.00 AM IST
- Assam: It's imperative to get things back to normal
This could be the beginning of a process of polarisation with serious implications for India’s cohesion as a nation state and its ability t...
22 Aug, 2012, 06.17 AM IST
- Fascism in its liberal womb
There is, in essence, only one fascism and yet it would be politically perilous for Indians to not distinguish between its two forms; Hindu...
17 Nov, 2008, 03.17 AM IST
- BJP in denial on Malegaon
Probe into Malegaon blasts must change anti-terror paradigms.
08 Nov, 2008, 12.00 AM IST