Certain utterances in the recent past have been strange as well as disconcerting and do not augur well for our polity. The ...

The recent debate on the inclusion of the terms ‘socialist’ and ‘secular’ was first ignited by RSS general secretary ...

Nkrumah was a towering anti-colonial leader, pan-African thinker, first PM & president of Ghana. Post-independence, he was ...

No doubt such a holistic review is a need of the hour but one thing cannot be denied that the biggest beneficiary of this whole exercise has been the Hindutva rightwing forces who are keen to ...

Below is the introduction to the symposium by Robert Heilbroner, with a follow-up question by Irving Howe, and eight short responses. —Editors (February 2016) I have recently posed a question to which ...

The debate over removing the words “socialist” and “secular” from the Preamble has come up twice in the last 10 years. Both ...

The Sangh may want to turn the clock back and omit the words “socialism” and “secularism” from the Preamble to the ...

RSS wanted to overthrow Indira Gandhi using whatever means it could, and later had no moral compunctions in flattering and ...

At the dawn of the 20th century, two epochal events shaped the way any conscientious Indian thought. The first was the return of Mahatma Gandhi from South Africa in January, 1915 and the second marked ...

As the 50th anniversary of the Emergency rekindles debate over secularism, it is worth recalling that the framers of the ...

Hosabale, the general secretary of RSS, the ideological mentor of the ruling BJP, had called for a review of the words ...

The CPI (M) leader further questioned the RSS's commitment to the Constitution, referencing MS Golwalkar, the second Sarsanghchalak of the RSS, whose writings according to Sandosh allegedly viewed ...