The understanding of secularism in India has changed over time with its politics and politicians. While communalism has always been the antithesis of secularism, new strands of communal identity ...

When a number of eminent historians including Romila Thapar and Irfan Habib termed the National Book Trust (NBT) chairman’s decision to revoke the orders to get “Sampradayikta:”, the Hindi version of ...

“Astonishing thought,” Nehru wrote in The Discovery of India about India’s common civilisational continuity of nearly six thousand years, about this multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and multicultural ...

Sir: It is not news that every segment of the Nigerian state is in a shambles– from politics, to economy, to education, and even morality. Even religion is not a rescue. The axiomatic definition of ...