The real beef was never about beef. It was about power, identity and fear. As vigilantes, politicians and television studios keep the controversy alive, ordinary farmers, workers and minorities cont
Fr. Gaurav Nair
After years of lynchings in the name of cow protection, many Muslims in West Bengal are refusing to sacrifice cattle for Eid. The result is a striking irony: poor Hindu farmers now bear the economic b
Ram Puniyani
The battle over cattle is no longer merely about faith or food. It is about whether farmers can survive, whether livestock retains economic value and whether symbolism can coexist with the hard realit
A. J. Philip
The real national emergency is not religion or identity but the betrayal of India's youth. While governments chase votes through division and spectacle, millions of young Indians confront unemployment
Jacob Peenikaparambil
At the Red Fort, Amit Shah transformed a so-called cultural gathering into a declaration of intent: tribal identity belongs within the Hindu fold. For two crore Adivasi Christians, the rally signalled
John Dayal
The controversy surrounding ILBS goes beyond one tragic death. It raises concerns about the VIP culture, commercialisation, unequal access and institutional accountability in a public healthcare syste
Joseph Maliakan
The 1851 novel by one of the best English novelists of all time, Charles Dickens, levelling a poignant critique of industrialisation and utilitarianism in England, attempted to present the dehumanisin
Julian S Das
The sun rises But does not touch us first. Roosters in the non-Dalit yards Crow before we are allowed To open our doors.
Marco Rubio had a tough time in India trying to respond to questions about Donald Trump's "hellholes" remark regarding India and China. Did Rubio describe the statement as "stupid," or was he referrin
Thomas Menamparampil
The white-bearded village chief and his bald-headed deputy stood at the edge of the village where nobody would overhear them. They had chosen the spot carefully because of Pegasus, the invisible flyin
Robert Clements