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Babri Masjid.
(1992)
Photo: Subir Roy

Ayodhya: deceit and force

The record of court orders on the proposal for a temple where the Babri Masjid stood shows insidious attempts to sanctify the conversion of the mosque

Killers’ impunity

The Bhagalpur riots and the Gujarat pogrom had common features which still persist.

Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi with RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat releasing a new edition of the book 'Hind Swaraj' written by Mahatma Gandhi, at a function in Ahmedabad on Monday. PTI Photo(PTI2_28_2011_000222B)

Nationalism in peril

The Sangh Parivar’s brand of patriotism connotes a perverted concept of nationalism and intolerance of dissent. Its aim is to erase the national conse

SRINAGAR, JAMMU AND KASHMIR, 06/9/2016: Kashmiri women shout slogans during protest against recent civilian killings in Srinagar on September 06, 2016. A youth was killed today in fresh clashes between protestors and security forces in Anantnag district, taking the death toll in the ongoing unrest in Kashmir to 73 even as normal life remained disrupted for the 60th consecutive day.
Photo: Nissar Ahmad

Patriotism and dissent

Can the cries of azadi be suppressed by recourse to the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967? Lawmakers have opined that rather than serving the

V.D. Savarkar. (Vinayak Damodar Savarkar).

Modi & Savarkar: Ideological turns

V.D. Savarkar’s politics was a fight against history. Plagued by a minority complex, he was committed to Hindu, not Indian, nationalism, and the creat

Politics behind the scenes

A two-volume compilation of British despatches to London from India and Pakistan in the year after the twin dominions won independence shows the forme

The Congress President, Mr. K. Kamaraj, with Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, and Union Home Minister, Mr. G. L. Nanda, at the Congress Working Committee meeting in Jaipur on February 09, 1966.
PHOTO: THE HINDU ARCHIVES/STAFF

Constitution & successions

It is hard to question the procedure that was followed by the Governor in Tamil Nadu, harder, still, to be pleased with the result.

Patron of the poor

This thought-provoking book on Sufism is written in a style that rivets readers’ interest, and the illustrations are a feast for the eyes.

Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan photographed with Sir Owen Dixon, United Nations Mediator on Kashmir and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister at a meeting held at Government House, New Delhi on July 20, 1950.

Hypocrisy on Kashmir

Seventy years after the Kashmir issue erupted, it is time to go beyond the deliberately untenable positions that the governments of India and Pakistan

An upright civil servant

In the civil service, N.N. Vohra had no parallel in terms of the knowledge and consistency with which he spoke on the country’s governance and securit

Caption: Fifteen dalit Christians were 're-converted' to Hinduism during a 'ghar wapsi' ceremony organised by Hindu Munnani, Vellore at Chengimottur near Latheri, Katpadi, on Tuesday. Photo: Special Arrangement

A sad betrayal

Judgments given recently by the Supreme Court avoided ruling on whether advocacy of Hindutva vitiates an election. A larger bench should be constitute

Want a ‘strong’ leader?

A book relevant to our times as it shows, through historical examples, how “strong” leaders often end up as a peril to democracy.