M.J. Akbar
It is difficult to describe the sheer weight of oppressive fear that descended, first suddenly, and then in widening circles of depression.........
Swapan Dasgupta
There is always a danger in trying to anticipate the manner in which an event that seems terribly significant today comes to be viewed by posterity. .........
Anand Chandrashekar
A Hindu temple in the Swiss capital Bern is one of the few in the world that allows women priests to officiate religious ceremonies..........
The Times of India
The Indian defence forces are putting up a consolidated effort to ensure that the International Yoga Day is a complete success...........
Shiraz Maher
At 17 years old, Talha Asmal has become Britain’s youngest ever suicide bomber. Shock is understandable, but it is naive to dismiss his agency...........
K.V. Aditya Bharadwaj
January 23, 2015: Birkhang Narjari alias Burlong Buttur (24), area commander Kokrajhar, Assam, during ethnic violence in 2014, arrested from a lodge in Upparpet area.........
Rupa Subramanya
As foreign-funded NGOs working in the field of environment face accusations of thwarting economic progress, a Canadian example holds vital lessons for India.........
IndiaFacts Staff @indiafactsorg
While the topic of the seminar was Autonomy of Temples and it brought out rich and deep facets of the manner in which temples are managed in India..........
Samvada.org
Nation remembers great social reformer, RSS founder icon of national resurgence Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar on his 75th punyatithi today..........
Nathan Wold
Many readers of our last list of 10 Dirty Secrets of the Catholic Church had the sneaking suspicion that there was more to the story..........
Sanjeev Nayyar
It was none other than Prime Minister Narendra Modi on whose behest the United Nations decided to declare 21 June 2015 as 'International Yoga Day'...........
Sushmi Dey
After United Nations, now the World Health Organization (WHO) is set to endorse yoga. The international public health organization plans to incorporate yoga into universal health care approaches...........
Opindia.com
Ever since Narendra Modi was declared the Prime Ministerial candidate of the BJP and opinion polls started hinting that he had an edge over others..........
News Room Post
Aggressively demanding resignation of Sushma Swaraj for helping Lalit Modi secure travel documents to be able to look after his cancer-affected wife..........
Uday Mahurkar
The answer lies in a book called 'Taqwiat-ul-Iman' (Strengthening Faith), written in 1820s, by a famous Indian preacher, Shah Ismail Dehlvi..........
The Economic Times
The World Health Organization is researching how to integrate yoga with universal health care needs, according to Nata Menabde.........
Amar Tejaswi
New research carried out by anthropological scientists from the Estonian Biocentre and the University of Delhi claims that events of the mythological epic Ramayana occurred in reality thousands of years ago..........
Preetha Nair (IANS)
Environment rights NGO Greenpeace India could be in for more trouble as an ex-staffer has gone public with allegations of rape and sexual harassment by her colleagues.........
Sandeep Balakrishna
The Temple Culture indeed produced superior human resources required to sustain not just these endeavours but, indirectly, a kingdom itself...........
Jayant Prasad
Expectations are running high ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Dhaka on June 6. Following the success in settling the maritime and land boundaries between India and Bangladesh...........
The Times of India
Environment rights NGO Greenpeace India could be in for more trouble as an ex-staffer has gone public with allegations of rape and sexual harassment by her colleagues............
Kanchan Gupta
While nobody doubts Sheikh Hasina's commitment to halt the march of Islamism, one can’t afford to gloss over the Islamisation of Bangladesh...........
The Times of India
Recent reports suggested writer Taslima Nasreen had left India to relocate permanently to the US. Speaking with Rohit E David..........
Baijayant 'Jay' Panda
Even its worst critics admit, if only in private, that the one area where the Modi government has undoubtedly shone is in foreign policy...........
Vanita Srivastava
The government has decided to popularise the Ramayana and Ramlila abroad through festivals and exhibitions as part of a broader cultural push to invigorate ties across the globe..........
Sujan Dutta
The Indian Army today said it had launched pre-emptive strikes on insurgents "along" the India-Myanmar border in Nagaland and Manipur.........
Cherese Jackson
A recent study shows additional healing benefits of yoga. The practice which dates back to pre-Vedic Indian traditions is a physical, mental, and spiritual practice.........
Pranav Kulkarni & Sushant Singh
The recovery of temples from the clutches of the ‘secular’ nexus must be expedited so they can once again be centres of excellence............
Rakesh Krishnan Simha
Thirty minutes, from ‘insertion’ to ‘kill’ to ‘out’. Forty of India’s toughest fighting men, commandos from the elite 21 Para (Special Force) Regiment, in two teams............
Sanjib Kr Baruah and Rahul Singh
Thirty minutes, from ‘insertion’ to ‘kill’ to ‘out’. Forty of India’s toughest fighting men, commandos from the elite 21 Para (Special Force) Regiment, in two teams............
Shamika Ravi and Rohan Sandhu
This column first appeared in The Indian Express, on July 15, 2014, and is based on a working paper titled Women in Party Politics, by the authors...........
Anubhuti Vishnoi
No temple, but here's a museum. The Narendra Modi government is planning to build a state of-the-art Ram museum in the politically charged town of Ayodhya..........
Aravindan Neelakandan
From the seven rivers—sapta Sindhu—of Vedic lore to the seven chakras of the Hindu flag, Hindutva has been one of the most unique conceptions of nationhood ever...........
Satish Padmanabhan Interviews Jaggi Vasudev
Guru cool Jaggi Vasudev ‘Sadhguru’, the man behind Isha foundation talks about the forthcoming World Yoga Day............
R Ramasubramanian
Is the novelist's avowed support for Modi the reason for the lack of protests against the defamation case filed against him?............
Samuel Westrop
In February, three London schoolgirls flew to Istanbul, from where they travelled by road to Syria to join the Islamic State...............
The Times of India
Who in his sane mind would think to jump into the toxic waters of the Campal Creek these days? Back in the early '50s, one could fish in its clear, free flowing waters..............
Mayank Jain
Even the utterly harmless acts of the Indian state, e.g. the national celebration on June 21, the UN’s International Yoga Day..............
Vivek Gumaste
The vast variance between the predictions of the intelligentsia and ground reality raises troubling questions about their acumen...............
S Sudhir Kumar
Much has been written about the 365 days of Modi sarkar. This is the most analysed (or over analysed) 1 year for any government that led India in the past..............
Swapan Dasgupta
Until relatively recently, there were two prevailing stereotypes of India in the wider world but particularly in the West...............
Hinduexistence.org
Three activists of radical Islamist group and most dangerous Hizb ut-Tahrir in Bangladesh have been arrested for putting up posters in a university against the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi..............
Hinduexistence.org
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here on a two-day visit, Bangladesh’s Hindu community on Saturday said they live in “constant fear of persecution”..............
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Earlier this year, a 24-year-old first-year analyst at the Goldman Sachs office in San Francisco was feeling overwhelmed by the all-nighters and 100-hour workweeks..............
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
Narendra Modi might reflect in Bangladesh this weekend that the local Hindus he won't meet are a diminishing community............
Swapan Dasgupta
The governor of the Reserve Bank of India has an intriguing way of translating the complexities of monetary policy into everyday language...........
Kumar Anand
The ‘honour’ and ‘influence’ that have so far been missing from the story of B. R. Shenoy, needs to be restored without further ado...........
Microfinancemonitor.com
Actor Sanjay Dutt, who has been serving in Yerrawada Central Jail in Pune a five-year term, again sought a parole in less than six months since the last one in December...........
Niticentral Staff
The present controversy over Mahabharat fame Gajendra Chauhan being appointed as the Chairman of the prestigious Film Institute FTII is not about him..........
Abhinandan Mishra
A part of Myanmar territory is being used as a production, transportation hub by the Pakistan army-PLA narco-alliance partners..........
Swapan Dasgupta
In December 1991, I wrote an article lamenting the absence of any commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Indian Army’s victory in the Bangladesh liberation war.........
Sharmila Ravinder
I never did watch Smriti Irani in the colossal soap operas she acted in a few years ago, hence I was unable to form an opinion about her acting talent........
Rosy Sequeira, TNN
The family court, in an unprecedented order, has restrained a Muslim US-returned paediatrician from marrying for the second time till he settles the rights and dues of his wife........
Tufail Ahmad
A special issue on ‘Islam and terrorism’ by Urdu magazine Haftroza Nai Duniya distorts facts, disfigures history and denies misdeeds.......
Express News Service
Talking about controversies around International Yoga Day, she said, “I wonder whether all the 175 nations who supported us at the UN for celebrating the day were as saffron as we are.”.......
Rohini Mohan
After a persuasive meal of tapioca and fish curry in Kerala on Wednesday , Rahul Gandhi protested the NDA's imposition of a uniform ban on trawlers for 61 days in the monsoon across the Indian coast........
Bella Jaisinghani
As corporate houses build hospitals that are easily mistaken for five-star hotels, affordable healthcare is heading outside the reach of the average Mumbaikar.......
The Times of India
In a veiled attack on Congress, Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today alleged that since Independence funds meant for welfare of minorities were not well spent.......
NDTV.com
Two youths belonging to the Muslim community of a small Indian township south of Johannesburg have died allegedly fighting for the Islamic State.......
Adithya Reddy
The controversy surrounding IIT Madras’s decision to ‘derecognize’ a student group is so unwarranted that nothing can explain its proportion but the intervention of vested political interests.......
Marcus Mergulhao, TNN
The All India Football Federation (AIFF) has always been a staunch ally of Sepp Blatter and has voted for him at every election since he first assumed power in 1998.......
Swapan Dasgupta
A curious but nonetheless interesting feature of the discourses on the first year of Narendra Modi’s Government was the absence of foreign policy from the list of achievements or disappointments.......
Ravi Shankar
Democracy is about freedom of choice. Freedom to air opinions at open forums. Freedom to vote. Freedom to speak out against social evils.......
Newsroompost.com
When lakhs of people in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand went hungry during the 2013 disaster, officials of the State government savoured mutton chops........
OpIndia Staff
The Ambedkar Periyar Circle (APSC) is an independent student body at IIT Madras, created on 14th April 2014, by a group of students at IIT Madras........
DNA India
The women are said to be between 18 to 20 years of age, and had lied to their families about their intentions before leaving Australia........
