The national media coverage of the violence at Bhima Koregaon enhanced the historical significance of the place. Until 2018, Bhima Koregaon was not embedded in the popular consciousness outside Maharashtra.

Mahant Rajendra Prasad Tiwari of Varanasi worries over the disregard, even contempt, shown in reimagining India’s sacred spaces, restructuring them in the manner of malls.

The fact that the grand alliance has held on to its social base in 2019 will enable it to exploit the contradictions inherent in the base stitched together by the BJP.

Kashmir is a metaphor for our political orphaning, say Muslims in Uttar Pradesh.

Widespread protests against the lynching of Tabrez Ansari, which mostly failed to draw support from non-Muslims, mark a failure at the political, social and judicial levels.

The high court judges – and the Gaikwad Commission – have failed to realise that economic backwardness cannot be conflated with social backwardness.

Without any evidence, India’s Muslims were labelled anti-Hindu and religiously radical since 2014. But the next five years may result in the materialisation of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

By embracing each other as family, the two women refuted the hierarchy of status based on caste.

Opposition leaders will not take up her mother's cause because they fear it could alienate voters.

The media headlined the arrest of ten human rights activists and lawyers in 2018. They soon faded from the national consciousness, allowing the state to swoop on JNU students.

A socio-political movement, Jai Adivasi Yuva Shakti is creating a ripple in the districts of west Madhya Pradesh ahead of the state's assembly elections, and has spurred the dream of creating a leadership of adivasis – for adivasis.

Rahul is making a concerted attempt to project himself as the representative of 'good' Hindus. This may not work unless he extends the idea of Hindu identity beyond what are primarily Brahminical ideas of Hinduism.

Behind BJP leadership’s condemnation of vandals is the realisation that defacing statues is a throwback to the past’s rampant icon demolition.

The truth is that the Hindu Right demolished the statues of Lenin and Periyar because both subscribed to the idea of equality, of creating a non-hierarchical society. To such a quest the RSS, evidently, is bitterly opposed.