Buddhist have been protesting at Bodh Gaya to repeal the Bodh Gaya Temple Act. The protest is not just a battle against joint Hindu control over their most revered site but is symbolic of a struggle ...

SOMETIME IN THE MIDDLE OF 2018, a team from the Central Bureau of Investigation touched down at the airport near Port Louis, the picturesque capital of the Indian Ocean tax haven of Mauritius. It had ...

The horrific attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir—which claimed at least 28 lives and left dozens critically injured—deserves our full and unequivocal condemnation. The massacre of unarmed civilians in cold ...

AROUND TEN EDITORS, their faces tense, gathered in a conference room in a swanky Noida office. Among them were the executive editor of CNN News18, the chief executive producer of IBN Network and the ...

AS THE JEEP he was in approached the Shilapani bridge, Jagadish Chandra would not have known he was being watched. It had been a trying and chaotic few weeks for him, but he had tried to right his ...

“WE CAME HERE AS DEVOTEES,” Valsan Thillankeri thundered into a Kerala Police mike-set. He was standing among a circle of policemen watching calmly, immediately outside the premises of the Sabarimala ...

WE HAVE NEVER had an election like this before, with the people split between elation and foreboding. The majority eagerly anticipates the result, with many among them unconcerned about what it would ...

I WAS RAISED along the banks of the river Pabbar, whose once robust flow has dwindled into a mere stream, its vitality drained by the construction of a hydroelectric project. Rivers are polluted, ...

ON A FEBRUARY MORNING LAST YEAR, Sujit Yadav, a Christian pastor, drove across the wheat and potato fields of Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur district to the home of a congregant, in the village of Bhalwahi.

Sitting in a vibrant room riddled with Wi-fi routers and cables, and his YouTube Creators Award perched upon the top shelf, Ambrish Bhatia lit a cigarette. “I didn ...

AKSHAY KUMAR loves India. He really does. He has said so in his movies, in his advertisements and in his tweets. In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the country to its knees, and the actor ...

ON THE EVENING of 22 March, there was unusual activity at the Election Commission of India’s headquarters, on Delhi’s Ashoka Road. At about 5 pm, various representatives of opposition parties had ...