As January 26 approaches, it is time to examine what the day means, apart from military parades and VIPs and foreign guests.

Act, 1991 is a law to “prohibit conversion of any place of worship and to provide for the maintenance of the religious ...

The Places of Worship Act was legislated to prevent more incidents like the Babri demolition, and couldn't be clearer in ...

What should we look forward to in 2025? I mean “look forward to” in the sense of anticipate rather than welcome. It will be a defining year and period in several ways. The most important ...

In 2021, I wrote a book called Price of the Modi Years. In one of its chapters I compared India’s rankings on various global indices that I had been tracking over the years to see whether they ...

Manmohan Singh represented the finest aspects of India, asserts Aakar Patel. IMAGE: Then prime minister Manmohan Singh with former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee before their meeting to ...

The Department of English at Bishop Moore College, Mavelikara, will organise a three-day national conference titled ‘‘Jawaharlal Nehru: Man, Idea and Nation’‘ from January 21 to 23.

Aakar Patel, former head of Amnesty International India, says the law criminalises the acceptance of aid by NGOs. "Even if you're working on Covid, the law makes it very difficult for you to be ...

"Even if you're working on Covid, the law makes it very difficult for you to be able to even accept foreign aid coming in without being in violation of the law," Aakar Patel, former head of ...

Writer and thinker Aakar Patel stated that a “license” to protest transforms a fundamental right into a privilege. He said that Jantar Mantar in New Delhi has become a graveyard for protests ...