Indian Culture & Politics

In India, petrol pumps, LPG gas stations and kerosene oil depots are not sold by oil companies on the basis of competitive bidding. Instead, they are allotted by the government in accordance with a complicated bureaucratic procedure. This procedure has been challenged many times in the past because it breeds corruption ...

February 27, 2002 has registered itself as another black day in India’s history of communalism. It is a strong reminder to the fragility of our social equilibrium and the depth of our societal polarisation. How violent and brutal communal frenzy makes us.

Ever since the war in Afghanistan, South Asia has become a subject of discussion and focus across the world. It gives us a good opportunity to understand what efforts South Asians have made to cooperate with each other on their own.

The never too comfortable Indo-Pakistan relations are at a new low. Apparently, the two nations are preparing to battle it out for the fourth time since independence.

Whether genetically modified food be consumed has been a subject of debate between the naturalists/environmentalists on one and the modernists on the other hand. But whether genetically modified insect resistant seeds be grown developed into a boiling conflict in India recently.

Men cannot change their history. But regimes can surely filter it, mask it or interpret it otherwise.

Democracies across the world confront a permanent dilemma. The dilemma of swinging towards authoritarianism or becoming a soft state. Anti-terrorist laws best illustrate this perplexity. On one hand, such laws demonstrate a State’s resolve to fight against heinous crime. On the other, they expose it to allegations of oppression and misuse. ...

Six years ago, the Government purposely allowed the Terrorism and disruptive activities prevention act or TADA to lapse. Now the Government intends to legislate a similar act called Prevention of terrorism Act. Pending its passage, the same law has been implemented through an ordinance called POTO or the prevention of terrorism ...

The Bombay based shiv Sena is mostly known for its ability to dig cricket pitches for preventing Pakistan from playing a match with India. It is also famous for its bold, rather outspoken and loud-mouthed leader Balasaheb Thackeray. Its belligerent, hard-line and pro-native stances on issues are well-known. The spiciness of ...

October and November have traditionally been highly auspicious for Indians. These two months host four of the most auspicious Hindu religious festivals. In this article, we understand what each of them signifies.