The Pattali Makkal Katchi in Tamil Nadu seeks to woo young voters for an image makeover as an all-inclusive party, but it may not succeed.

The Centre’s decision to ban 350 fixed-dose combination drugs brings to the fore the urgent need to curb the unethical practices in the pharmaceutical

Should a natural and biological process be used to discriminate against women, all in the name of religion? The debate spearheaded by “happy to bleed”

A petition in the Supreme Court on the Sabarimala issue raises significant questions.

The murder of the activist Berta Caceres brings into focus the political violence against those trying to build a just society.

With the referendum just two months away, public education-led engagement with the issues of Brexit remains tardy because politically disparate groups

Protests by garment workers over attempts to curb Provident Fund withdrawals bring to light the underside of working-class life in Bengaluru.

Interview with Dr Hamid Dabholkar.

The Trinamool Congress’ grip on voters is loosening as corruption, rural suicides and strong-arm tactics of party workers emerge as the main themes o

The Paravur temple tragedy in Kerala was a disaster waiting to happen, given the increasing frequency of temple festivals involving pyrotechnic displa

Interview with Asra Nomani, who organised the first mixed-gender namaz led by a woman.

In history, untouchables, be they men or women, sudras or tribal people, were not meant to enter sacred precincts. Notions of purity and pollution wer

Interview with Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati.

The current wave of activism in support of gender equality in places of worship started in Maharashtra, thanks to committed women fighters and court i

The women’s movement for the right of entry into religious spaces seeks to challenge gender- and caste-based hierarchies. The organisations leading it

On the issue of restrictions to the entry of women in the Sabarimala temple, the dominant view in Kerala, even among women, seems to be that tradition

Islam does not prohibit women from offering prayers at mosques but since it prohibits mixed-gender prayers, logistical problems prevent some mosques f

The Haji Ali Dargah’s decision to deny women access to the inner sanctum from 2011 is widely believed to be a retrograde step because women can pray i

The anti-women values, customs and usages were directly targeted and remedied in the Constituent Assembly by the founders.

In the light of the recent Supreme Court observations on women’s equal right to worship, a section of Christians takes a hard look at the patriarchal

Centuries ago, thousands of Africans were brought to India as slaves. They made this country their own, and their descendants can be found mainly in c

The Mehbooba Mufti government begins work with serious trouble on hand to deal with.

The Maithripala Sirisena government drops all its objections to the China-funded Colombo port city project conceived by the previous Mahinda Rajapaksa

The government’s plans to strengthen military ties with the U.S. will sound the death knell for India’s foreign policy independence and strategic auto

In the historic Seventh Congress of the Cuban Communist Party, President Raul Castro reiterated the party’s commitment to the socialist model of devel

In the battle to retain its minority character, AMU was denied even elementary justice in 1965, and it is the same in 2016. There is time still for th