Culture for one, taboo for another—MasterChef is now more Indian with Northeast on its plate
In Australia or US, food choices don’t have political undertones, but in India, they’re often associated with notions of ‘purity’. MasterChef India 7 is changing that, reports Tina Das.
Former deputy chief of Army found 24 hrs after family reported him missing from his Delhi home
Delhi Police found Lt. Gen. Shantanu Dayal (retd) walking along Outer Ring Road, putting end to frantic search that included cops putting out an alert on social media, reports Bismee Taskin.
Yale, Oxford in India is Modi govt’s way to wedge divide, take OBCs, Dalits back to dark past
The RSS and BJP will turn India into an Indralok where the elites will enjoy the benefits of global education and Hindi-educated OBCs, Dalits will become its gatekeepers, writes Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd.
Indian cricket seeing tectonic shift—Yadavs, Mavi, Chahal, Patel, Hooda leading the change
India is seeing more and more cricketers from farming and cattle-rearing communities like Jats, Patidars, Ahirs, Gurjars and other OBC communities, writes Dilip Mandal.
Vajpayee to Modi, why India-Pakistan secret peace dialogues on Kashmir have always failed
Even though governments in Pakistan and India have changed, the calculations in either capital have not. New Delhi thinks time is on its side on Kashmir, writes Praveen Swami.
RSS is strongest & weakest it’s ever been. Pitfalls of going from rebel to core of establishment
An all-powerful RSS now has to make ideological compromises. It’s easier to do on social issues like LGBTQ rights, harder on more visceral ones like its views on Muslims & Christians, writes Shekhar Gupta.