Anirban Ganguly
As we inch towards Sister Nivedita’s 150th birth anniversary, one would do well to recognise, re-evaluate her life and work and to rekindle a deeper and wider interest in her.......
Dr Hafeez Pasha
Islam is a modern and flexible religion which always teaches its followers the philosophy of peaceful co-existence, tolerance and harmony.........
Komal Gautham, TNN
As one enters the Samskrita Gramam (a Sanskrit Village), words such as Swagatam (welcome) and Aagachattu (Please come) can be heard......
Tarun Khanna
After criticising the pseudo secular philosophy prevailing in India, noted Bangladeshi writer and human rights activist Taslima Nasreen.........
The Indian Express
Police said 29-year-old Prashant Poojary, a flower-seller, was hacked to death outside his shop, some 40 km from Mangalore...........
NDTV.com
A jubilant BJP today asserted that the party has "written a new chapter" in Ladakh after sweeping the 26-member Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Leh (LAHDC) elections today...........
Raghava M.
Tension prevailed in Moodbidri after a flower merchant, who was said to be a Bajrang Dal activist, was allegedly murdered in a market on Friday. ...........
Kartikeya Tanna
Earlier this week, in a significant judgment by the country's apex court, Sanjiv Bhatt, the expelled former IPS officer on whom the hopes of everyone hating our Prime Minister rested...........
Ravish Tiwari, ET Bureau
The BJP's indoctrination document has identified 'forced' religious conversion and NGOs that receive foreign funds as internal threats the nation faces and has categorised them along with the threat from Maoists...........
Kanchan Gupta
The hypocrisy of the ‘intellectuals' who’ve relinquished Government awards and positions to oppose the current administration notwithstanding..........
Sudhi Ranjan Sen
Last year around this time, 25-year-old Anwar (name changed), successfully walked through immigration at the Mumbai airport and flew to Dubai...........
N Ravikumar
Nearly seven decades after DMK founder C N Annadurai wrote a series of articles in ‘Dravida Naadu’ to substantiate his argument that Hinduism is not the religion of Tamils..........
DNA India
Sending a strong message to those involved in terrorism, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday advised people to leave the country if Australian values were "unpalatable" to them...........
Eric Weiner
If the point of travel is to challenge ourselves, then naturally we should seek out the most “difficult” destinations, like India...........
Saswat Panigrahi
What is the common between dismissed IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, self-styled activist Teesta Setalvad and the writers who have relinquished Sahitya Akademi Awards or quit the Akademi..........
The Times of India
The number of writers who have returned their Sahitya Akademi awards is now almost 30. The government has called their protest a manufactured protest..........
Manu Joseph
There is a coup underway in India: Some people who are inconvenienced by democracy have taken over nearly all the country’s television news channels.........
Rashmi Shrikant
Writers have been returning awards and quitting posts to register their protest against "rising intolerance", but eminent Kannada writer SL Bhyrappa calls it a "publicity stunt".......
Opindia.com
Numerous authors and poets have decided to return their Sahitya Akademi awards to protest, what they see as “rise of intolerance” in India.......
Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain
A commentary on Indian society and the Indian Army's Regimentation; why this support system for soldiers is still the best......
Tufail Ahmad
People are angry at the murder of Muhammad Akhlaq in Dadri over allegations that he ate beef. Some say they are angry at Akhlaq’s murder........
Arvind Lavakare
When asked about the “Breaking News” story of a multiple rape by a juvenile group in his state, UP’s Netaji said “Boys will be boys”.......
The Times of India
The number of writers who have returned their Sahitya Akademi awards is now almost 30. The government has called their protest a manufactured protest.......
Haindavakeralam.com
The International Film Festival being staged in Kerala has placed a ban on Sanskrit movie ‘Priyamanasam’. According to reports......
Owen McCormack
Christopher Columbus is a polarizing historical figure whose life has been defined, by many, for his astonishing level of courage and intestinal fortitude.......
Vijay Murty
When Maoists called the shots 10 years ago, few dared to step out of their homes during the day in Jehanabad. Today, 9 pm is too early to shut shop.......
The Times of India
Citing "public sentiments", authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have denied permission to Ahmadiyya sect of the Muslim community to hold a peace meeting in Srinagar......
Noakhali1946.blogspot.in
“Worst of all was the plight of women. Several of them had to watch their husbands being murdered and then be forcibly converted......
Hindustan Times
Everyone has a ‘sacred cow’. Even the American who ridicules the Indian’s opposition to cow slaughter. Here, the American’s ‘sacred cow’ is the horse........
The Times of India
The Bihar polls seem to have given a boost to interest in the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh in the state with a sharp increase of 35% in online applications during July-September........
Vijay Murthy
She could have been India’s Malala Yousafzai, leaving behind a life of Maoist violence she was lured into as a child, to start afresh, enrolling herself in school for studies and a bright future........
M.J. Akbar
When an obituary of the Indian Left is written, it will be said that it died of complacency. It was not homicide, really. It was suicide..……...
Yogesh Joshi
A government panel set up to study the situation in Pune’s Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) has squarely put the blame..........
Arti Dogra
Here, administration was reoriented to facilitate behavioural change rather than just provide individual toilets. This is the way forward for Swachh Bharat...........
Deepanwita De
“It was held that all was well with a man if he acted nobly and that his belief were quite secondary things” : Annie Besant in Bearings of Religious Social Reconstruction in 1913..........
Chris Brooke
An Asian family who converted to Christianity claim they are being driven out of their home for the second time by Muslim persecutors.........
Shantanu Guha Ray Says Vatican-backed Norway is sidetracking his effort at brokering seminal peace deal between Colombian government and FARC guerillas.........
T. V. Mohandas Pai
The U.S. recognises that India is the last unconquered digital market. If Digital India succeeds, there will be a new model to reach the rest of the unconnected world.........
Vamsee Juluri
Gandhi and Upadhyaya responded in strongly similar idioms, with non-violence as a central concept, in trying to chart an ethical course for a newly decolonised India.........
Mark Tully
India is no stranger to confusion and that is why the much-talked-of jugaad, muddling through or miraculously rescuing a situation at the last moment is so common..........
Business Standard
RBI Governor says we need to do is back up the PM's foreign visits with action on the ground which reinforces the good impression that is created........
