Politicians love to take liberties with history. The BJP (and the government) accused the Congress of mutilating the National ...

Vande Mataram completes 150 years as Parliament debates its legacy and political meaning. PM Modi accuses Congress of ...

Criminal distortion of history, fueled by post-truth narratives and state sponsorship, threatens democracy. An academic ...

Congress MP Jairam Ramesh criticized the government for "weaponising nationalism" and ignoring historical debates surrounding the national song Vande Mataram.

Success in the real world is never born of illusion. It is first bestowed by the grace of Almighty Allah and then shaped by ...

“Vande Mataram was composed at a time when, after the 1857 freedom struggle, the British Empire was unsettled and imposed ...

Writing about the past is influenced not just by the data but also by the cultural frameworks and cognitive inclinations of ...

Born of 1960s Mumbai politics to assert a Maharashtrian snack, the vada pao carries a quiet irony: its potato, chilli and pao ...

India didn’t merely lose face in front of Lionel Messi. It revealed, yet again, how we treat sporting greatness. We see them ...

India, marked by a military escalation with Pakistan following a terrorist attack, sparking drone warfare and treaty ...

Indians embraced English for employment and enrichment, transforming it into a powerful tool for colonial resistance ...

The dominant political ideology in India today is Hindu nationalism, a spectrum of thought that represents a “New India.” In ...