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Electioneering is in full throttle. As the temperatures and decibel levels rise, so do informed and uninformed rumours and predictions despite a...
It is striking to what degree Hindu concepts of holiness and allied religious salutations have permeated India’s socio-political interactions. And...
They are gone as suddenly as they bloomed, three lakh tulips. Newspaper reports in city pages tell us they were imported in December of 2023 from the...
In the taxonomy of traditional Indian families, my maternal grandmother Ama, was an accidental matriarch. Ironically, this mother of nine was pushed...
As we know, in India, parivar or family is the living reality of which elections are the dream. Congratulations mothers and young daughters of India!...
It is a difficult truth to accept that the images of dishevelled but spirited farmers being shown in endless loops on our TV are somewhat lopsided. ...
In the fall of 1812, having successfully chased away Napoleon’s armies, Russian Czar Alexander the First decided to construct a grand temple for...
“On principle it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitude alone. In reality the very opposite happens. It is the theory which...
The media, Bharatiya Janata Party media cell messages and sadhus are all furiously trying to establish (on the basis of several unreliable sources)...
A cluster of photos printed in a major English daily, the day after the week long rituals began in Ayodhya’s new Ram temple, confirms that our...
Elections are once again in the offing. And all parties have gone into a huddle along with trusted strategists and media cells creating promotional...
On December 21, 2023, a chartered flight from Dubai to Nicaragua, carrying 303 Indians (mostly from Gujarat), was grounded in France. Subsequent...
The saga of insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir has largely been dominated by the Valley narrative. The twin border districts of Rajouri and Poonch in the...
India’s politics of the last decade has left no one in any doubt that power wears a male face. Masculinity as a form of power in politics, society...
As the year 2024 draws close, gods of tragedy and comedy – unlike our political parties – seem to have formed a coalition. Hindi’s largest...
Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes of what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...
Around the same time the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won back three majority Hindu states from the Congress, the National Crime Registration Bureau...
Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes about what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...
Few people embody the ’90s as aptly as Subrata Roy, founder of the Sahara Group of companies. He was also known as Sahara Shree. The boy from Araria...
Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes about what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...
Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes about what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...
Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes about what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...
Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes about what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...
Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes about what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...
On Friday, October 6 , we were at an old friend’s house in Jerusalem, celebrating the end of the week-long Feast of Tabernacles together. Our hosts...
Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes of what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...
Last week, switching through news channels, I caught an unexpected sight: The Qutub Minar, Rashtrapati Bhawan and the flying saucer-shaped Bharat...
Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes of what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...
Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes of what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...
In his old age, Groucho Marx told his friend and biographer that he hated the stage name “Groucho”, which he had carried for six decades and which...