A diplomatic dinner is more than a meal; it is cultural diplomacy on a plate. India has every right to showcase its magnificent vegetarian cuisine, but excluding its equally rich non-vegetarian tradit

Ageing need not mean becoming a burden. With the right opportunities, senior citizens can remain productive, creative and socially engaged. Kerala's emerging Silver Economy offers the Church and civil

Congress asked Karnataka's Christians to trust its promise to repeal the anti-conversion law. Three years later, the law remains. Repeated meetings, assurances and memoranda have only served to produc

Accountability is travelling from official files to the grassroots. "School Thik Karo" may be satire's latest avatar, but its questions about India's public schools are real.

India's education system is in terminal decline because of short-sightedness and corrupt, incompetent academic leadership. The public education system is practically dismantled. Ever since the Nationa

A major strength of the book is that Menamparampil does not examine these issues merely as political or theological problems. He approaches them through human relationships, collective identities, soc

I am tired of the Indian theorists MN Srinivas, Bhikku Parekh, Ashish Nandy, Akeel Bilgrami,

The voter is sovereign. The electoral roll exists for the voter. The election exists for the voter. The government ultimately derives legitimacy from the voter. When crores disappear from electoral ro

The Bible is filled with rulers who believed they could contain God. Today, their thrones are gone, their empires are history, and many of their names are remembered only because they tried to stop Hi

India's daughters are still treated as someone else's property, burdened by patriarchy, denied autonomy and forced to surrender independence. Rahul Gandhi's women-only gathering in Pune challenged thi

If changing the Constitution is difficult, changing the electorate may prove easier. SIR's mass deletions raise the disturbing possibility that Hindutva's route to a Hindu Rashtra may run not through

This writer must admit to a vested interest in this story, as the Election Commission office in New Delhi erased his wife from the national capital territory's electoral rolls, and restored it only af

Reservation is not charity; it is a constitutional instrument of social justice. But leaving sanctioned posts vacant, replacing permanent employment with contracts and privatising public institutions

Children do not always need another lecture, correction or punishment. Sometimes they need an adult willing to listen beneath the behaviour and discover the unmet need. The language we use can rebuild

A 7.8 per cent GDP growth rate makes for an impressive headline. But GDP does not pay the rent, buy food or protect a worker from illness or unemployment. The country's growth remains incomplete until

He may speak of purity and pollution, tradition and order, custom and inherited authority.

To commemorate this historic occasion, the Departments of History, Sociology and Political Science organised a one-day state-level seminar in collaboration with the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQ

Gentlemen, before telling women to stay at home, remember that the doctor saving your life, the judge protecting your rights, or the pilot flying your plane may be a woman.

The RSS has spent decades building an international ecosystem of charities, cultural bodies, donors and political influence. Bhagwat's centenary outreach seeks to consolidate it. The West has noticed.

Bhagwat's New York sermon offered the world an India where diversity is sacred and every citizen belongs. Back home, the reality is far less harmonious: food, faith, dress, history and citizenship its

If you ask me which was the greatest news story I reported or commented upon during my 53 years in journalism, I would answer without batting an eyelid: the eradication of smallpox from India.

The Taliban tried to silence Malala with a bullet. India's new fundamentalists wield sticks, censorship and intimidation. The weapons have changed; the instinct has not. Both fear the same enemy: a yo

The Church cannot preach courage to its flock while practising caution in the face of persecution. When Christians are attacked and sacred spaces desecrated, polite memoranda are no substitute for act

They write of democracy from rooms where democracy has never had to enter the kitchen, where equality is discussed beneath lights that never reveal the darkness outside.

According to Koenraad Elst, when Hedgewar started the RSS, he had purely pragmatic ends in mind. The first thing he had to guard against was British imperial surveillance. He carefully adopted secret-

Perhaps Mr Bhagwat had brought this beautiful version of India in his luggage. Perhaps it had cleared American immigration because unity, unlike some Indians, is still welcome in the United States.

You may be supremely happy that your Freedom of Religion Bill has received the President's assent and has now come into force in Maharashtra. But there is an irony that you may not have noticed.

India's children are discovering the power of protest. Their demands are modest. Safe classrooms, clean water, toilets, teachers and dignity. If governments silence those who expose these failures rat

Gonsalves was born on April 5, 1954, in Munnar, nestled in the Western Ghats in Idukki District of Kerala, into a prominent Anglo-Indian family from Pallippuram in Kochi's Vypin. He was the eldest son

A "church-free Odisha" must not become a cause for fear or retaliation. Christians must respond with truth, courage and peace, remembering that our strongest witness is faithful service: building brid

Vande Mataram once united Indians against colonialism. Its appropriation today seeks to turn a shared national symbol into a test of Hindu nationalism and patriotism, diverting attention from governan

Recent cases of infants abandoned in Haryana, Karnataka and Jharkhand expose a legal system built for children who can speak, not infants who cannot. Strict criminal penalties for abandonment push par

The smartphone may be the millstone of our age: a pocket-sized idol that promises connection but breeds distraction. When we surrender ourselves to its endless pull, children learn to imitate us. True

Dolly's faith was heard not only in gospel songs but also in her generosity. Through her Imagination Library, she placed millions of books into the hands of children. She did not merely sing about lov