(In conversation with The Wire,Dhirendra Jha talks about his bookShadow Armies: Fringe Organizations and Foot Soldiers of Hindutva.) As goons masquerading as protectors of Hindu values, women or cows attack

We are not prostitutes, we are not drug addicts. #Save us from our parents Hon. Bombay HC, we are victims and we need justice #Save us from our parents read

The RSS agenda of Hindu Rashtra draws heavily on the superiority of Aryan race and greatness of Brahmanical values. The ideology constructed by this organisation tells us that Aryans are

In the 1960s we were confident that the use of religion for political mobilisation would decline because nationalism, namely, the secular, all-inclusive, anti-colonialism nationalism that brought us independence, would, despite

(An excerpt from Rahul SankrityayansTumhari Kshay, on why he thinks people must put humanity above religion.) April 14is the 54th death anniversary of prominent Hindi writer Rahul Sankrityayan, author of

Long years ago, we make a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At

Recently at the release of our book First Food: Culture of Taste, which discusses the link between biodiversity, nutrition and livelihoods, I was asked a question. Why do you not,

Two years have passed since the brutal murder of Comrade Panasare and 42 months after killing Dr. Dabholkar. The two independent agencies involved in the investigation, viz, CBI of Central

The Kolhapur police team investigating the murder of rationalist Govind Pansare has reportedly questioned Dr Jayant Athavale, the founder of Sanatan Sanstha, in a major development in the case. The

It is distractions galore in the Sanatan Sanstha-Pansare murder case, with the organisation now objecting the appointment of Shivajirao Rane as the special public prosecutor (SPP) by calling it “illegal”.

(The following was delivered as the commencement address at the California Institute of Technology, on Friday, June 10th 2016 ). If this place has done its joband I suspect it

Now that the dust has settled on Marina beach, where young protesters had camped to demand that the ban on jallikattua traditional sport of bull jostlingbe lifted, lets discuss the

Govind Pansare was not among the nationally well known faces of the Communist Party of India (CPI), even though it was his political home for over six decades. Tragically, it

Like Manoj and other Indian rationalists, I have often been chided by fellow Indians fairly mainstream, middle-class bhadralok, most of them for picking on Hinduism. I am asked if I