All election-related surveys show that the leaders of the BJP and the prime minister of India are the most popular leaders, that is, the representative voice of this society. If a cursory reading of the prime minister's speeches in this election itself is done, it becomes clear that he holds views diametrically opposed to the findings of the Lokniti survey on religious pluralism. How do we explain it then?

After a play inspired by the 'Ramayana' was performed at Pondicherry University, the ABVP complained of religious sentiment hurt, resulting in the removal of the department head and punitive actions against some students.

To be squeamish when the former President of the Congress party is candidly pointing to hate being fanned systematically, is wrong. Let's look deeper.

Elections renew democracy in India. But how is democracy expected to survive if the election process itself is corrupted or vitiated?

Mutual debate and competition of ideas has defined JNU. The victorious front has a duty to defend this culture.

Those who say that teachers should only be concerned with their classroom and limit themselves to the task of completing the syllabus, do not know anything about the role of teachers.

One knows that the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal or Hemant Soren is to scare political leaders and the people and stun them into inaction. Is this how we want to live? Are we actors in this theatre of democracy or mere spectators?

Elections are not just about forming governments, for they are opportune moments for political parties to forge shared public sentiments. Under the BJP rule, it is now about forging a Hindu public sentiment against Muslims.

Are there such Hindus still left in India who not only find injustice towards Muslims bad but are also ready to take the trouble of fighting against it?

At a time when big media platforms have deployed all their resources to glorify the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a video asking if India is headed towards dictatorship getting mass viewership assumes greater significance.

If Rabindranath Tagore had been alive today, he would have written a harsher poem on the BJP's Ram temple in Ayodhya. Mahatma Gandhi would have led a movement or sat on a fast to atone this crime.

Justice Chandrachud is a skilled orator. He is always politically correct in his out of court orations. But he has not been appointed the chief orator of this country. His job is to do justice.

By endless violence and hateful propaganda, the Indian nation as a shared zone of sensibilities is coming under severe strain.

No sacred feeling can truly arise on a piece of land acquired through crime, cowardice, and cunning.

Narendra Modi is not always a winning formula for the BJP. But perhaps he wants his image in the public mind at all times. This is not for electoral reasons alone: he wants to make every discourse in India about himself.

In Premchand's 'Balidan', the thugs who had robbed Girdhari of his land are haunted by his ghost. In Israel, the kibbutzim will never be allowed to forget the past.

The people of the world understand well the evil intent of Israel to eliminate Palestinians and have risen against it.

Israeli propaganda is deemed necessary by its patrons or allies to justify its massacre of the Palestinian people.

The Indian government's decision to abstain from a resolution calling for a ceasefire betwen Israel and Gaza is a matter of pain and shame for the country's citizens.

The increasing support for Israel in the country is in consonance with the rise of anti-Muslim, anti-minority politics represented by the BJP.