Women, youth, scheme beneficiaries: TMC, BJP battle to woo same set of voters through poll promises in West BengalWest Bengal's upcoming elections see TMC and BJP vying for women, youth, and welfare recipients. The TMC focuses on its established social ...
22 Apr, 2026, 09.27 PM IST
Puducherry polls: Church raises community concernsChristian voters in Puducherry express concerns over AINRC's alliance with BJP. The Catholic Church views changes to the FCRA as an attempt...
07 Apr, 2026, 01.29 AM IST
West Bengal polls: Coal economy, identity politics shape contest in Asansol DakshinAsansol Dakshin gears up for a crucial 2026 West Bengal assembly election. Key issues include the declining coal economy, illegal mining, a...
01 Apr, 2026, 10.28 AM IST
UP parties look to caste their net wide before next year's pollsUttar Pradesh politics is increasingly driven by caste ahead of the 2027 elections. Recent controversies and administrative decisions are a...
06 Feb, 2026, 11.47 PM IST
It is the beginning of Hindutva politics in West Bengal, not the end: Author Badri NarayanRSS is constantly changing and those who want to contest its influence don’t understand these changes .Attacking its stereo-types will not ...
06 Jun, 2021, 10.09 PM IST
Sangh has various strategies to make Dalits part of grand Hindutva identity Badri Narayan, social historian saysRSS works with mostly invisible and the most marginal Dalits, nomadic-semi-nomadic, ex-nomadic and tribal communities in three ways, assert...
28 Mar, 2021, 10.38 AM IST
There’s now one more category of minorities – Indians who are targeted because they dissent: Romila ThaparThapar reminds us, familiar with dissent, that "dissent is not imported from the West", and that Hinduism is not a “single, continuous, unc...
23 Oct, 2020, 11.11 PM IST
Hindutva is an assault on Hinduism: Shashi TharoorIn his new book, Tharoor, 63, delves deep into Hinduism's most important schools of thought such as Advaita Vedanta.
29 Sep, 2019, 12.48 PM IST
View: The good news: India won’t become a Hindu Pakistan. The bad news…This then is the Muslim state and it coheres to what Tharoor says may happen to us if the Hindutva project rumbles on: keeping Indians out ...
22 Jul, 2018, 11.01 AM IST
Book seeks to take back Hinduism from hijackers: TharoorAccording to the Lok Sabha member, the idea for his book 'Why I am a Hindu' had been churning around his head for some time.
04 Feb, 2018, 04.36 PM IST
Rename secularism. Call it 'dharma' or righteous administrationDharma or righteous administration must be rooted in the thinking of Tagore and Gandhi. Both were deeply learned in scriptures, but both re...
17 Sep, 2014, 11.33 AM IST
Hindutva claim of RSS a challenge to secular India: CPI-M"RSS head Mohan Bhagwat has repeated his claim time and again. It is a basic challenge to the concept of a secular India," Karat said.
20 Aug, 2014, 10.48 PM IST
Redefining nationhood: RSS doing disservice to idea of IndiaIndia’s goal should be to deepen unity through greater economic and emotional integration, not its disruption by pitting subnational identi...
19 Aug, 2014, 06.01 AM IST
BSP antagonized many Dalits in UP whom the BJP wooed: BookDisaffection among a large section of Dalits for the BSP may have paved the way for fragmentation of this caste group in UP.
19 Jun, 2014, 11.49 AM IST
Narendra Modi’s caste makes sense in heartland politicsThe more the backward castes become assertive Hindus, stronger the Hindu hierarchy & Hindutva identity. Thus, Narendra Modi is a godsend to...
21 Jan, 2014, 06.52 AM IST
RSS targets Nitish Kumar over 'secular' PM remarkRSS spun an ideological web of support for Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, challenging Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar's conception...
25 Jun, 2012, 05.14 AM IST
- The right shade of saffron
BJP’s struggle has been to make itself be seen as viable party of governance.
09 Feb, 2009, 02.01 AM IST