A pertinent question to ask is what constitutes intolerance? Does it mean an inappropriate legislation, denial of rights, violent incidents related to religion and other identities, irresponsible statements by government functionaries, or just even a plain disagreement with others’ point of view?...
Veteran Communist leader V.S. Achuthanandan has said the "ploy" of Kerala Chief minister Oommen Chandy and vernacular daily Malayala Manorama -- an old vigilance case against his son -- "cannot keep me silent". ...
As I write this, I spot over a dozen Chinese men outside my Beijing hotel room wearing air purifier masks on their faces - the price they paid for technology. It stirred some alarming thoughts about where India is heading, and why India has a need to rethink each of its steps towards technological advancement....
Even as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley sought to brand the Supreme Court judgment striking down the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act and the enabling 99th constitution amendment as "tyranny of the unelected", former apex court judge Asok Kumar Ganguly said that what it did was its "duty", which it is man...
Because of his stature, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will not be able to brush aside his views as those of a "Nehruvian" or a "Leftist", as it has done with regard to the protests by the 40-odd writers who are also upset, like the president, about the signs of intolerance....
With attacks by fringe Hindu outfits on writers and intellectuals for their views and assaults and murders of those with different religious and cultural practices, author Mani Rao, who has done extensive research on Hindu holy scriptures and classical texts, says Hinduism is about "love and unity" and not "divisive ideas"....
Ad guru Piyush Pandey, the brain behind the famed ‘Ab Ki Baar Modi Sarkar’ campaign, says the Dadri lynching is not the first of its kind and such incidents happen every year....
Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, who has often spoken out on issues of national importance quite in contrast to others in the film and entertainment industry who choose to remain silent, has raised his voice against the growing atmosphere of intolerance in the country, saying that such acts "ridicule" our constitution and "debunks" India’s...
India will be poorer without its core secular values, MIM's articulate leader Asaduddin Owaisi says, rubbishing charges that he and his party are communal....
Taking a leaf out of superhit Bollywood movie "Munnabhai MBBS", the medical and non-medical staff of a hospital here played 'garba' in full swing inside the intensive care unit, sparking all round outrage, officials said on Tuesday....
