India

At the age of 90, T. Srinivasan diligently sits in front of the computer every day, typing in both Sanskrit and Tamil for his next book. He is an expert in agamas (ancient temple rituals and practices). He doesn’t stop with this. He even plans the design and layout of the book. He learnt Adobe [...]

Western colonialism did not die after the end of World War II when the West gave up its colonies. It merely changed to a more subtle form, which may prove more harmful to non-Western cultures in the long run.The expansion of Western culture has continued at an accelerated rate along with the denigration and decline [...]

 RAIGARH: A local court on Tuesday sentenced a priest to two years’ rigorous imprisonment for not allowing a Dalit woman to enter a temple in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh. District judge Anil Kumar Shukla sentenced priest Raja Pandey (63) to two years of imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 2,000 for prohibiting a Dalit [...]

KANNUR: A 27-year-old RSS worker was hacked to death in front of his aged parents in Kannur district in poll-bound Kerala, triggering a blame game between BJP and CPM on Tuesday. While BJP slammed CPM for Monday night’s murder of the RSS worker, Sujit, the Marxist party has denied it, saying it was the fallout [...]

New Delhi: In a revelation that has put the role of historians in shaping the fact-based history under scanner, former Regional Director(North) of Archaeological Survey of India KK Muhammad has alleged that an excavation done by a team headed by Professor BB Lal, then director general of the ASI during 1976-77, found the remnants of [...]

Mumbai: When actor Aamir Khan expressed alarm, publicly voiced and expressed his wife Kiran Rao’s fear about staying in the country due to the growing “intolerance,” he has been criticised for his remarks. Aamir faced extreme protests for his statement and still continues to receive abusive comments on social media for the same. But now, [...]

Orai: Of late, religious conversion and beef have been in the news for different reasons. Now, the issues once again made headlines on Friday when a man was tonsured, garlanded with shoes and paraded on the streets as he had allegedly converted three Hindu men to Christianity and forcibly made them consume beef. According to [...]

“The two recent issues, Sabarimala and Jallikattu, … calls for a background check, because we need to exercise discrimination when we approach a matter of faith, whereas reason is enough to resolve all other matters. Especially so, because Hindu reforms invariably seem to attract Constitutional activists from every nook and corner to demand equal rights [...]

The testimony of a sanyasi or mendicant who renounced the world and follows an ascetic life cannot be accepted in a civil dispute by a court of law, the Supreme Court has held. The order came on a plea filed by the sanyasi’s family which wanted the Haryana government to return their 30 acres in [...]

Pro-Isis slogans and threats of an imminent terror attack have been daubed on a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in a small village in north-western India.Images from the scene showed the face of the white statue had been smeared with brown paint, while the rest of the statue was covered in crude writing, including the word [...]