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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the inauguration ceremony of Digital India Week 2022, in Gandhinagar, Monday, July 4, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | Modi holds the middle as BJP moves further Right

The inclusivity and development mantra invoked by Mr Modi was clearly aimed at appeasing the apprehensive among the...

6 July 2022 11:34 PM IST

The Gyanvapi Mosque after its survey by a commission, in Varanasi, Tuesday, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | Like Ayodhya, Gyanvapi issue will live with us for...

Parliament has the right to repeal the Places of Worship Act, and indeed some people in the BJP have been asking for...

24 May 2022 7:14 AM IST

After the Prime Ministers encouragement, the then BJP-ruled state of Maharashtra and then Haryana had criminalised the possession of beef, leading to a sequence of lynchings that still continues, though it has dropped out of the news cycle. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | Bigotry misfit in modern world: What direction is India...

There is no Muslim chief minister in India today and no Muslim Lok Sabha MP among the ruling party's 303 members

9 Nov 2021 2:24 AM IST

The atmosphere is almost similar to the one witnessed during the 2017 Nandyal Assembly byelection when Y.S Jagan Mohan Reddy, then the Leader of Opposition, camped in Nandyal for a week. Similarly, TD chief N. Chandrababu Naidu is camping in Tirupati. (Photo: AP)

Aakar Patel | What India will we leave for future generations? Some...

The people are useful for the State as they give it legitimacy, but they are also seen as a nuisance that gets in the...

17 Aug 2021 2:53 AM IST

It appears that many Indians are not primarily voting on the basis of issues like the economy and their own well-being as measured by data provided by the government. (Photo: AFP)

Aakar Patel | India headed in wrong direction: Is it too late to...

We have become as much of a religious state as Pakistan and this is a fact

30 March 2021 12:54 AM IST

In some Muslim states, for example, there is a prohibition on alcohol and people are forced to shut their restaurants during the day in the month of Ramzan. (Photo: Mrugesh Bandiwadekar)

The idea of Hindu rashtra is vague

Prohibition of alcohol and cow slaughter already exist in our laws in some form and in many states.

30 Sept 2018 7:38 AM IST