Just 18 months after the BJP swept all 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat, the party has now been able to just manage to retain its urban sway, losing the rural swipe to the Congress, according to the final results to 323 local government bodies that were declared on Thursday....
A black and white street impression of a lynched man with "Dadri, north of India, Circa 2015" scribbled on it, immediately strikes a chord with the viewer. The pencil drawing is a response to the Dadri lynching by acclaimed artist Arpita Singh. Though it’s not a part of the ongoing show of her drawings, watercolo...
India only needs to look at Pakistan to understand what intolerance and extreme right-wing fringe elements can do if allowed to run amok, says documentary filmmaker Hemal Trivedi, who filmed clandestinely in the neighbouring country for "Among the Believers" that is sharply critical about fundamentalism....
At a time when researchers and health care providers globally are debating over an ideal blood pressure (BP) level for you - with changing lifestyles and stress being a major part of everyday life - the Indian health experts still vouch for the traditional 120/80 BP reading -- even a tad lower -- for all age gr...
Outgoing Chief Justice of India H.L.Dattu on Tuesday refused to join the ongoing debate on intolerance saying that as head of the country's judiciary, it would not be proper for him to comment on it....
American productivity guru and acclaimed author of "Getting Things Done", David Allen has forayed into India to train individuals and executives on the art of leading a stress-free productive life....
In his quest to understand Vedic mythology, Sanjay Patel, an Indian-American, took the animation route to tell a story featuring Hindu gods as superheroes. The first-time director says an approval by a US studio to such a "culturally specific" story came as a "shock" (pleasant surprise) to him....
He said that the perverse use of the term secularism is causing social tensions. As per Singh, secularism is the most misused term in the country and it is this misuse of the term which is causing social tensions. He repeated that this term has Western roots and stands for separation between religion and state. In India since its religion itself i...
Rajya Sabha member K.T.S. Tulsi on Monday said he was "terribly disappointed" with the political shades given to the issue of intolerance, as all they were doing was a symbolic protest in the form of returning awards...
"It is a long struggle. We are planning many things. We will chalk out state-level meetings too," poet Ashok Vajpeyi told IANS on the sidelines of the Indian Language Festival, Samanvay. Vajpeyi had returned his Sahitya Akademi award last month...
