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Demolition drive in Delhi's Mehrauli area, February 2023 (Photo: Social media)

Erecting monuments, razing dreams

Meenakshi Natarajan

The protesting women wrestlers at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi (Photo: Vipin)

Herald View: Wrestling with our ugly side

Jan Sangh founder S.P. Mookerjee (left) was was a minister in the Bengal provincial government of A.K. Fazlul Haq in the late 1930s

The BJP has always been sleeping with its enemy

PM Modi holding the sengol with Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla (left) and a posse of Hindu priests in tow (Photo: PIB)

Herald View: Why so many lies about the Sengol?

Barring a socio-economic survey as part of the 2011 census, no caste census has been conducted since 1931.

Why we need a caste census

PM Modi at his residence with the adheenams of the mutt from which the much-debated sengol originated (finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman stands to a side, not seen in the frame) (photo courtesy PMO, GOI)

Despite the odd nod to tradition, BJP govt proves itself a radical

India’s first PM Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

No escape from Nehru for BJP–RSS

A performance of the Ramleela with a Ravana (in Kathakali costume, left) and a Sita (veiled and garbed in a distinctly northerly aesthetic, right) epitomise the combative North–South energy (photo: Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

Opinion

The 'Reverse Continental Drift' of South from North India

21 May 2023, 9:11 PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: Getty Images)

Opinion

The 91 abuses: Who is abusing who—or what

21 May 2023, 2:04 PM

On a bus ride during the Karnataka campaigning, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi offers a woman commuter his seat. Gandhi heard women discuss transport issues, budgets and the career aspirations of young people (screengrab from @RahulGandhi/Twitter)

Opinion

Making sense of the Karnataka verdict

20 May 2023, 4:06 PM

Dr Parakala Prabhakar’s new book ‘The Crooked Timber of New India: Essays on A Republic in Crisis’ (Photo courtesy: Speaking Tiger)

Opinion

Modi 'staggeringly incompetent', 'disastrous' if elected in 2024, says Dr. Parakala Prabhakar

15 May 2023, 11:22 AM

A man waves the Indian national flag as he attends an election rally of the Indian National Congress on April 16, 2023 in Kolar, India ahead of the Karnataka Polls. (Photo: Getty Images)

Opinion

Karnataka was about the survival of India

14 May 2023, 6:00 PM

Representative Image (Photo Courtesy: UNESCO)

Opinion

Herald View: Is the Indian press now effectively muzzled?

14 May 2023, 3:00 PM

PM Narendra Modi during a visit to the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie, where IAS officers undergo training. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Opinion

All India Services: A Corroded 'Steel Frame'

14 May 2023, 10:43 AM

'The Kerala Story' promotional poster of four burkha-clad women (Photo Courtesy: IMDb)

Opinion

The Real Kerala Story

14 May 2023, 8:55 AM

Priyanka Gandhi at Barabanki, walk in step with local women, her arm around one of them, a senior citizen (photo courtesy PTI)

Opinion

Priyanka Gandhi is an enigma for a male chauvinist RSS

07 May 2023, 6:36 PM

Illustration: Amit Singh/ National Herald

Opinion

Of India’s Own Bermuda Triangle

07 May 2023, 9:38 AM

'The Kerala Story' promotional poster of four burkha-clad women (Photo Courtesy: IMDb)

Opinion

Herald View: The Story of 'The Kerala Story'

06 May 2023, 6:00 PM

Sharad Pawar (Getty Images)

Opinion

Why Sharad Pawar looks in charge even after he’s quit

02 May 2023, 5:45 PM

Image courtesy: agrowon.com

Opinion

What MVA’s sweep in APMC elections across Maharashtra means

30 Apr 2023, 5:52 PM

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