Opinion

At the heart of this crisis is the Supreme Court judgment allowing women of all ages entry into the Sabarimala Temple. The Sangh is in firefighting mode after having issued a press release in favour of the verdict, writes Anu Narayanan.

On a lighter note, many would believe that it perhaps pays for the old guard to have the name or surname begin with an `A’ in the Rahul Gandhi dispensation.

In what may be seen as piggybacking on the semantic ambiguity of party’s political-tactical line, leaders close to former general secretary Prakash Karat have declined to join hands with the Congress in Rajasthan, Telengana and Andhra in clear violation o...

Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad’s announcement of the Centre’s move for an ordinance for enforcing the TripleTalaq (instant divorce) ban—after more than a year of legislative logjam—conveyed its political import.

Far from being lawful in pre-colonial India, homosexuality carried the death penalty under both Sharia and Brahmanical Hindu custom.

From the moment I met him, I found myself caught in a unique bond with Atal Bihari Vajpayee, writes Bhupendra Chaubey

In a powerful Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to recapture the 'hope factor' of 2014 by presenting the four years of his reign as a sharp upward and continuing trajectory.

Growing up in the 80s and the 90s, my greatest idol and hero was Imran Khan. But what transpired in the last few months made me decide that I have to cast my vote against him at all costs.

True to form, the servitors — and their apologists — were up in arms barely hours after the Supreme Court suggested that the temple administration should ‘consider’ allowing non-Hindu in.

We are in competition with machines. It is an unequal race unless we build a nation of curious learners.

The trauma of sexual abuse is confusing for a child and navigating to unearth the truth isn’t easy. This brings us to the most discussed yet neglected aspect of raising awareness about preventing such crimes.

Shujaat used words very carefully and always spoke in measured tones. But that wouldn’t come in his way of cracking jokes and lightening up the atmosphere around him.

The sugarcane over dues of Rs 700 crore in Shamli district added edge to the RLD campaign over the BJP. Invoking Ganna v/s Jinnah, Jayant Chaudhary forced the BJP to play defensive and that was the critical moment of this election. The RLD candidate secur...

Having unseated Congress chief minister Sheila Dikshit from power in 2013, it’s truly ironic that Kejriwal is now reaching out to the same ‘corrupt’ Congress leader for an alliance, that too in less than five years.

Learning from the climate change movement, when companies violate environmental norms and human rights, it is moral responsibility of the shareholders to take charge.

The Narendra Modi government can boast of introducing transformative measures, but these have been overshadowed by the failure to substantively improve public delivery systems and, therefore, good governance.