India, or at least parts of it, is going through a weird phase of fetishised nationalism and knee-jerk rejectionism. The divide is between those who profess unquestioning nationalism and are staunch supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and those who castigate everything and are virulently antagonistic to the prime mi...
After having made its intention clear that it will go all out to dig out the hitherto invisible Saraswati river, the religiously-minded Khattar government has gone a step forward....
Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which emerged from an anti-corruption movement, on Thursday completed three years, patting itself on the back but admitting it has miles to go....
Five artists from Kerala have brought to the national capital an exhibition on a generation inspired by Marxism, history of change and resistance in Kerala in the 1980s that is on display at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art here. ...
As one enters the Visual Arts Gallery at the India Habitat Centre, what first catches the eye is a large empty circle filled with rose petals - and several hundred wax body parts placed beyond this Lakshman Rekha. Then, there are installations of reddish-purple female heads and wall-hangings made of objects like pepper, chillies, cloves, condoms, fis...
A group of educated Muslims is planning to float a pressure group which will subsequently lead to a pan-India political party to take care of the community's interests in a country where it constitutes 14 percent of the 1.2 billion population....
Claiming that the central government has decided to abandon the Sethusamudram shipping channel project, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Monday sought the Supreme Court's permission to withdraw his petition against the project....
There is broad support around the world for many of the basic tenets of democracy, according to the Washington based think tank Pew Research Centre's survey of 40,786 adults in 38 countries from April 5 to May 21, 2015. ...
The sex-enhancing drug Viagra may help people at risk for diabetes by improving insulin sensitivity in them, a first-of-its-kind study has revealed....
There has been a nine-fold increase in deaths due to terrorism globally, rising from 3,329 in 2000 to 32,685 in 2014, according to the Global Terrorism Index 2015 report by the Institute for Economics and Peace, a think-tank based in Sydney, Australia....
