'...it gets a survey report that they are going to lose elections.''The fear of losing elections will make them immediately conduct a caste census.' IMAGE: Backward Classes Welfare Association of......
Expressing concern over land subsidence at Joshimath in Uttarakhand, the rawal or head priest of the famed Badrinath shrine, Easwaraprasad Namboothiri, has urged the authorities to stop the......
'During my nearly three decades of military service, both in war and peace, I have usefully drawn upon Gandhiji's storehouse of wisdom.''When military intelligence jobs require tightrope walking on......
A nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court observed on Monday that making offerings at places of worship may be a religious practice, but the law can regulate the money donated at such places if it is......
'The idea of a 'Hindu Rashtra' only emerged in the 1920s and 1930s.''The context at that time was the clear British attempt at 'divide and rule' between Hindus and Muslims and within Hindus on......
The Gujarat high court has stayed the release of Maharaj, Aamir Khan's son Junaid's debut film, on Netflix after followers of Pushtimarg, a Vaishnava sect of Hinduism, claimed that it would hurt......
Putting together a play about the Father of the Nation is no easy task.But when that play is a musical, the challenges increase.Rediff.com's Savera R Someshwar (text), Rajesh Karkera (video) and......
Settled into my plush theater seat, watching as Guru Pitka [Mike Myers] dispenses new-age wisdom, cheekily drops sexual innuendos, and lusts after Jane [Jessica Alba] all in the same scene, I hear......
Water may have lost the Oscar to Germany's The Lives of Others in Best Foreign Film category. But director Deepa Mehta's controversy-laden third of the trilogy, after Fire and 1947: Earth, still......