Hindu Nation

Shashi Tharoor's 'Hindu Pakistan' remark: Congress' defensive reflex encourages BJP, offers it space for aggrandisement

The Congress’s unfortunate defensive reflexes, which come into play as it works out what it sees as ineluctable compulsions and calculations, encourages the BJP and affords it space for aggrandisement.

Shashi Tharoor warns BJP will make India 'Hindu Pakistan' if it wins 2019 LS polls; Sambit Patra demands apology

"If they (BJP) win a repeat in the Lok Sabha, our democratic Constitution will not survive ," Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said while addressing a gathering in Kerala.

BJP, IPFT trying to win Tripura election by creating rifts in society, says Chief Minister Manik Sarkar

Tripura CM Manik Sarkar on Tuesday launched an attack on the BJP and IPFT, saying there was a concerted effort to assume power in the state by creating rifts.

Cow slaughter ban: The Far Right's obsession is a 20-year-old template of political leverage

We tend to have short memories. A year is too long, and twenty is ancient history. As it happens, what is now more than a year-long lunacy to project the cow as both unquestionably sacred and a cure for all ills and harassing, threatening, arresting and sometimes, killing offenders of the cow in the name of religious sanctity with a transparent intent of electoral gain, is a twenty-year-old ploy brought back larger-than-life.

India going vegetarian: Ban on cow slaughter motivated by BJP commitment to upper caste Hindu ideology

Amending the state’s Animal Preservation Bill, the Gujarat Assembly decreed a maximum punishment of life imprisonment and a minimum of ten years for cow slaughter.

Mohan Bhagwat for President: Shiv Sena picks RSS chief for top job, in bid to bargain for key ministries

Once again, the Shiv Sena has thrown a googly in the Presidential election poll highlighting the name of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat for the president's post. The party said that since India is known as a Hindu country Bhagwat is the best choice for the president's post.

Modi's reform drive: Holy cows and Hindu crusaders play spoilsport

The violence of cow vigilante groups this year, some of it caught in disturbing videos on the Internet, has unsettled minority groups.

An NGO that aims to 'reinstate divine kingdom': All you need to know about Sanatan Sanstha

On Monday, senior journalist Nikhil Wagle allegedly received a death threat from the Sanatan Sanstha. Here's what you should know about the group accused for this threat and other crimes in the past

VHP does it again: Party patron says India will be a Hindu nation by 2020, world by 2030

Calling the victory of the BJP- led alliance in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections as initiation of a "revolution" in the country, VHP patron Ashok Singhal on Saturday said by 2020, India would be a Hindu nation.

Modi, Muslims, Scotland and J&K: Why we must junk flawed ideas of nationhood

It is good that Scotland voted against secession. Any secession is based on flawed ideas of nationhood. It is good that Modi said Muslims will live and die for India. What he should not question is why they may live and die for India