The research findings of Sumantra Chattarji and Supriya Ghosh may lead to a potential therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder.

1. Adi Andhra 2. Adi Dravida 3. Adi Karnataka 4. Ajila 5. Arunthathiyar 6. Ayyanavar (in Kanyakumari district and Shenkottah taluk of Tirunelveli ...

Judicial delays are among the main reasons for the overcrowding in Indian prisons, where undertrials constitute more than 60 per cent of the prisoners.

The government, the People’s Majlis and the judiciary are together trying to undermine Maldives’ Constitution of 2008. Their latest undemocratic act is the removal of two judges of the Supreme Court.

Religious faith has never been the sole reason for the destruction of places of worship; greed and a desire to assert power are also at play. The Babri Masjid’s demolition was motivated more by the desire for political supremacy than by religious animosity.

The 2014 India-Russia summit in New Delhi yields a raft of substantive agreements between the two countries.

The least the Indian state can do is offer an apology for sending about 3,000 people of Chinese descent to a detention camp in the Rajasthan desert after India’s war with China in 1962 and take effective ameliorative measures to improve the lot of the Chinese Indians in the country.

An actual relationship in the writer’s youth may have produced the protagonists of Devdas, but they are, in the end, a metaphor for the human self stumbling through life.

Interview with Shiv Vishwanathan, social scientist.

THE Shivarama Karanth Rangamandira was packed and overflowing for the plays in the evening. Of the four plays that were performed during the week, two ...

Scholars and writers engage in a discussion on the Indian way of thinking at the culture course at Ninasam in Heggodu, Karnataka.

KRISHNAMURTHY HANUR, a folklore scholar from Mysore, was A.K. Ramanujan’s friend and fellow traveller during all his research expeditions in the ...

Interview with K.V. Akshara, theatre director, playwright, translator and essayist, who heads Ninasam.

All religions are vulnerable to gross misrepresentation, mythification and mayhem. Perhaps Pakistan over the next two decades or so can demonstrate that religion, as one element of identity, can also catalyse profound transformation inside the human mind.

B.R. Ambedkar’s critique of Hinduism before he embraced Buddhism remains valid even today.

Interview with Dr Abraham Mar Paulos, Diocesan Bishop of Delhi for the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar.

The Meenakshipuram conversions three decades ago came as a spontaneous response to upper-caste oppression in Tamil Nadu.

The ghar wapsi campaign, which follows from the purification theories propounded by Golwalkar and Savarkar, implies a clear rejection of Muslims and Christians as equal citizens unless they become Hindus.

The ghar wapsi campaign illustrates how the Sangh Parivar continues a legacy of colonialism in calling for a demographically “Hindutva” nation. In reality, the theocratic notion of India as Hindutva is a very recent pardesi, or foreign, intervention.

Religious faith has never been the sole reason for the destruction of places of worship; greed and a desire to assert power are also at play. The Babri Masjid’s demolition was motivated more by the desire for political supremacy than by religious animosity.

The 2014 India-Russia summit in New Delhi yields a raft of substantive agreements between the two countries.

The least the Indian state can do is offer an apology for sending about 3,000 people of Chinese descent to a detention camp in the Rajasthan desert after India’s war with China in 1962 and take effective ameliorative measures to improve the lot of the Chinese Indians in the country.

B.R. Ambedkar’s critique of Hinduism before he embraced Buddhism remains valid even today.

Interview with Dr Abraham Mar Paulos, Diocesan Bishop of Delhi for the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar.

Interview with Asaduddin Owaisi, MP and leader of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen.

KRISHNAMURTHY HANUR, a folklore scholar from Mysore, was A.K. Ramanujan’s friend and fellow traveller during all his research expeditions in the ...

Interview with K.V. Akshara, theatre director, playwright, translator and essayist, who heads Ninasam.