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Bodhgaya: Thai devotess offers prayers at the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya on Friday. PTI Photo(PTI11_7_2014_000136A)

Morphing the Buddha

The book is a unique attempt at recording the transition of Buddhism in India as meticulously as possible.

Bengaluru : Greenpeace activists at a demonstration stressing the need of upholding the democracy in Bengaluru on Friday as part of their protest against blocking of their account. PTI Photo (PTI5_15_2015_000150A)

With us or against us?

Civil Society, which is the hallmark of a stable democracy, is being made redundant under the new government.

Gangtok: A women looks at the rubbles of the damaged house in the Sunday's earthquake in Lumsey in Tadong about 10 down of Gangtok on Wednesday. PTI Photo(PTI9_21_2011_000169B)

Sitting ducks

The cities of India are not adequately prepared to handle earthquakes though 38 of them are located in high-risk areas.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the foundation stone laying ceremony of Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, in New Delhi on Monday. PTI Photo by Manvender Vashist(PTI4_20_2015_000214B)

Idolatry vs ideology

The RSS-BJP’s enthusiasm to celebrate Ambedkar’s birth anniversary is seen as a key aspect of the Hindutva group’s social outreach agenda targeting Da

A large crowd gives a standing ovation to Prime Minster of India Narendra Modi at the Allphones Arena Olympic park in Sydney on November 17, 2014. Thousands of Indian community members gathered at the arena to listen to Modi who is in Sydney after attending the G20 Summit in Brisbane over the weekend. AFP PHOTO / Saeed KHAN

Double standards

There is no logic to the way in which the Indian government grants Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) cards to citizens of certain countries and not to o

‘The law has to be compatible with human rights’

Interview with Anupama Roy, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

By means mostly foul

By their own admission, Sangh Parivar outfits have been engaged in reconversion in the Hindi heartland for two and a half decades. With the BJP’s rise

VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in Agra,DIVYA TRIVEDI in Shivpuri

Indian residents and Bhopal Gas disaster survivors set alight a banner of Union Carbide as they commemorate the 30th anniversary of the disaster in Bhopal on December 3, 2014. Protesters in the Indian city of Bhopal burned effigies representing Dow Chemicals and displayed placards demanding justice as they marked the 30th anniversary December 2 of the world's deadliest industrial disaster. Some held old black and white photographs of loved ones lost on the night of December 2, 1984, when a cloud of highly toxic methyl isocyanate gas spewed from a Union Carbide factory in Bhopal and blew across the city. AFP PHOTO

Betrayed & forsaken

The survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy try to hold on to their memories and still nurse hopes of securing justice some day.

DIVYA TRIVEDI in Bhopal

COIMBATORE, 10/02/2011: ADVANCED CT SCAN: 128 Slice CT Scan installed at KG Hospital in Coimbatore on February 10, 2011. Visualisation of medical images of CT Scan in 3 D is Complete and Comprehensive as it combines pathological Anatomy at depth with surface information.
Photo:M. Periasamy

Unfair practice

Growing corruption and malpractices in the medical field raise the question whether measures like regulation and audit of medical practice will have t

BHOPAL, 12/01/2008: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan and State BJP General Secretary Anil Madhav Dave along with school children performing 'Surya Namaskar' during a mass statewide Suryanamaskar-Pranayam programme, at TT Nagar Stadium in Bhopal on January 12, 2008.
Photo: A.M. Faruqui

Saffron slant

Using education as a tool of indoctrination, the RSS and various organisations associated with it have begun a systematic campaign in BJP-ruled States

21/06/2008 Mumbai: (attn: photo to go with S. Snankar story) Photo of Lavasa.

Not so smart idea

The smart city, a 100 of which the NDA government has planned, is a utopian concept that excludes completely the urban poor and promises infrastructur