Case filed against Salman Khurshid in Jaipur over his book for 'hurting religious sentiments'On Wednesday, former union minister Salman Khurshid got embroiled in controversy for "defaming and comparing Hinduism with terrorism" in hi...
13 Nov, 2021, 09.18 AM IST
View: Ram Mandir doesn’t negate Constitution, it links antiquity to presentThe difference between the reactions to the 1992 demolition and last Wednesday’s bhoomipuja would indicate that India has changed very sign...
09 Aug, 2020, 10.16 AM IST
Savarkar was first to advocate two-nation theory: Shashi Tharoor"Savarkar said a Hindu was somebody for whom India was his pitrabhumi, the land of his ancestors, and his punya bhumi, his holy land. So, b...
24 Jan, 2020, 09.22 PM IST
Citizenship amendment bill gets Cabinet nod, set to be tabled in ParliamentThe Bill has been opposed vehemently by opposition parties like Congress, Trinamool, DMK, Samajwadi Party, RJD and the Left and even region...
04 Dec, 2019, 04.49 PM IST
Citizenship bill undermines fundamental tenets of Constitution: Shashi Tharoor"I think the bill is fundamentally unconstitutional because the basic idea of India has been violated in the bill. Those who believe that r...
04 Dec, 2019, 03.22 PM IST
Unpleasant trends of intolerance, polarisation can damage our polity: Manmohan SinghRecalling Rajiv Gandhi's words, Singh said, "Nothing is more important than the unity and integrity of our nation."
20 Aug, 2019, 04.20 PM IST
2019 election will be 'battle for India's soul': Shashi TharoorThe upcoming general election will be a "battle for India's soul", Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said Thursday and alleged that a fundamen...
25 Jan, 2019, 10.39 AM IST
Help me restore peace, I'll find a way for dialogue to resolve issues: Mehbooba MuftiMufti said Gandhiji believed that cleanliness was next to godliness and this drive should help imbibe in us the habit of keeping our surrou...
02 Oct, 2016, 10.55 PM IST
BJP and RSS counter what they call pseudo-secularism with pseudo-nationalismWhile India became a nation in the modern sense only in 1947, it had a millennia old civilisational unity that both preceded British rule a...
27 Aug, 2016, 11.09 AM IST
Statute vs sacred: Asaduddin Owaisi's game has a familiar ring to itNationalists believe India didn't begin in 1947 but dates back to antiquity and that Indianness includes emotion, history and collective me...
20 Mar, 2016, 10.42 AM IST
Yoga Modified: From soft power to nationhoodThere is always a danger in trying to anticipate the manner in which an event that seems terribly significant today comes to be viewed by p...
28 Jun, 2015, 01.24 PM IST
Sirirsena no different from his predecessor Rajapaksa: Visvanathan Rudrakumaran'We have seen Presidents come and go and nothing has changed for the Tamils, it only got worse each time,' says Visvanathan Rudrakumaran.
15 Jan, 2015, 03.12 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
BJP’s defining characteristic is its exclusivist vision, derived from Sangh ParivarThe Congress might opportunistically deviate from the liberal-democratic idea of a composite India, but the BJP seeks to define Hindutva as...
06 Aug, 2013, 08.18 AM IST
- Right on, Chidambaram
Chidambaram was spot-on when he focused attention on the danger posed to India’s integrity by Hindu fundamentalist organisations.
30 Aug, 2010, 05.11 AM IST
- Move beyond identity politics
Congress & BJP have finally found the courage to come out against SS chauvinism.
03 Feb, 2010, 06.21 AM IST
- Pakistan should act fast against LeT: PM
PM has said he expects Pak to take quick action against 26/11 terrorists.
17 Jan, 2009, 06.52 PM IST