'Ayodhya verdict is crucial for Muslims'

Ahead of the court verdict on Ayodhya dispute, a French writer on India says it would be a moment of reckoning and an opportunity for Indian leadership to bring Muslims back into mainstream.......

Emergency was a windfall for the RSS

The Emergency greatly influenced the RSS' makeover from a fringe force in the Indian political imagination to one that could have its own man sworn in as prime minister in two decades' time.A......

'One more 26/11 could have huge consequences'

Christophe Jaffrelot, the renowned expert on international relations and religious politics in the Indian sub-continent, explains why Pakistan has become the problem instead of being the solution.......

'Congress has underestimated the resentment of the people'

'It has also underestimated the striking force of the Opposition. It has been complacent and paralysed. That may be due to the compulsions of coalition politics and the arrogance of a party which......