Opinion

Scindias and Gaekwads have a long history of collaboration for the furtherance of common goals of Maratha Empire. Both dynasties ruled the top 21 Gun Salute states Baroda and Gwalior respectively, amongst more than 500 princely states of South Asia

The JNU historians and Muslim scholars in their zeal to prove Babar had not destroyed any temple to build a mosque, not only distorted facts and argued using half-truths, they also tried turning Ram and Ram’s association with Ayodhya into a myth

The apprehension now is that under Muizzu, given its pro-China stand, Maldives is going to fall into the verge of another debt trap by China

The arrival of fresh crops into the market this quarter is expected to ease price pressures in the food basket. But the inflation pain will continue, with full-year forecast still at 5.4%

The baggage of the two-nation theory is being shed by the million Indian Muslims, which led to the partition of India, more than 70 years ago

Rahul Shivshankar and Siddhartha Talya’s ‘Modi and India: 2024 and the Battle for Bharat’ serves as a guide for the INDI alliance, offering strategies to pave its path for 2024 and overcome its bête noire, BJP

In the name of Palestine, they seek the decimation of Israel and Jews. And in the name of Hindutva, they work for the dismantling of India and Hinduism

In spite of the changing face of warfare, we need to draw appropriate lessons from the 1971 War which reveal that the advantages tanks bring to land warfare are outweighed by vulnerabilities that new technologies can pitch against them

The tech-savviness and sheer power of the Gati Shakti masterplan could prove to be extremely beneficial for the developing world, and cement India’s position as not just the voice, but also the leader of the Global South

The BJP looks too far ahead, its rivals too demoralised to go into the 2024 general elections with any degree of competitive parity

Deeply researched and persuasively presented, John Zubrzycki’s ‘Dethroned: Patel, Menon, and the Integration of Princely India’ explores the foresightedness and efforts of Sardar Patel and VP Menon that led princely states to join India, relinquish their...

The clarion call of the legal verdict reverberates — Article 370 was, by its very nature, a transient provision, a pawn in the hands of a few, wielded to sow seeds of division within our nation

The fellow travellers of the Congress party have never had much respect for the intelligence of the common voter. But dismissing the voter as ‘WhatsApp University’ does not work

The Congress and other Opposition parties must handle the recent electoral defeats with grace

In the end, it is safe to say that Mahua Moitra has been burned at the stake. But desire as she might, she won’t be hailed by history as the Joan of Arc of politics

Until Jews and Muslims learn from Indian culture, they won’t be able to break free from the spiral of violence. Neither Abrahamic monotheism nor Western secularism could show the path