Culture

Months ahead of polls, Bengal politics takes a communal plunge –minority and majority -- with electronic and print media playing up both events: the foundation laying ceremony of the “new Babri Masjid” and the “Gita Recital” at the Brigade Parade Ground, Kolkata

In sharp contrast to other development parametres, these high infant mortality figures, reveal an institutional malaise that needs urgent addressing

Her autobiography is a rare account of a woman’s journey in the deepest sense from Europe to India; from Christianity, both Protestant and Catholic, to the Philosophy of Recognition or Pratyabhijñā, popularly called Kashmir Śaivism.

On the global stage, the top 0.001% own three times more than the poorest half of humanity combined, said the 2026 World Inequality Report

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent undermining of rights through emphasising “duties” is both a majoritarian and feudal re-affirmation common to authoritarian states and societies

The organisation documents a 10-day trail of exclusionary, fearmongering and openly inflammatory statements across four states, urging urgent intervention to prevent further communal polarisation

Concerned Citizens’ Group (CCG) –a voluntary initiative set up in 2016--on its eleventh visit to Kashmir and Jammu, from October 28 to 31, 2025 and meetings with political actors, businessmen, teachers and other professionals apart from activists has released its report recently

Retired Judge of the Madras High Court, K Chandru writes: the enforced debate in Parliament by the RSS-driven National Democratic Alliance (NDA) seeks to create a controversy over Vande Mataram raising concerns over the intentions of the present government; ‘A non-issue is being much importance and publicity’ he says