After Ramayana, the new historiography has shifted its focus on dating Mahabharata, deepening Hindu civilisational history, and finding physical sites.
As in the second phase, the BJP-led NDA’s problem in the third phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha election is that it has an awful lot of seats to defend — 80 out of the 93 seats that go to polls.
While Chandra Shekhar Azad is a streetfighter who has caught the fancy of Dalit youth, Anil Antony is the face of the BJP’s fresh social engineering attempt.
From Anmol Sidhu to Gurvinder Singh, Punjabi indie filmmakers have gained international critical acclaim. But their films have few takers in Indian theatres.
The UK, US and Israel have long staged targeted killings of criminals, terrorists and their adversaries. The moral outrage against India’s assassination campaign is profoundly spurious.
The dosa isn’t the only hero of the day. A few people in the group are also chutney supremacists. 'Chutney has to be great, sambhar is secondary,' one attendee says.
Amid political promises & potential projects, Ratnagiri’s youth migrate in search of better prospects, while region’s elderly are left behind in hamlets without vikas and cellphone towers.
Naima Khatoon has taken charge of Aligarh Muslim University at a time when many in India are viewing the words 'Muslim' and 'minority' with suspicion. But also when AMU itself is changing.
Kalahandi Lok Sabha seat goes to polls on 13 May. Residents applaud pace of development, but emphasise need for job creation to arrest migration of labour.
It is obscene that a man so detached from India should occupy such a powerful position in a party that governed India for most of its republican history.
About 300 employees had called in sick Wednesday, allegedly in protest against mismanagement of airlines. Remaining staff given ultimatum to rejoin work by end of Thursday.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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