The needless controversy surrounding the Tamil film Annapoorani, which was removed by Netflix, could have been avoided had the 'upper' caste people outraged over a dialogue actually read the very text they were seeking to defend.

No naked human body can ever match the obscenity of its costume. How dare they shame the bodies of real women in this way?

If you have a friend in prison because they refused to acquiesce to the bitter denial of freedom and dignity in the country that is currently underway, please go and see them.

Though some very online Hindus can’t take the thought of Radha and Krishna making love, images of the kind now being shunned have long found a place in poetry and the arts.

In the Rig Veda, 'grhapatnī’ and ‘grhapati’ are co-eval. The ‘lordship’ or ‘ladyship’ is a relation, jointly, of custodianship, of ‘ruling the household’. If grhapati and grhapatni can be used to signify equal forms of sovereign power within the household, why can rashtrapati and rashtrapatnī not do the same in relation to the state?

Detractors of Leena Manimekalai and Mahua Moitra have only proved that they lack a true understanding of Kali worship, Tantra and the Shakta traditions.

The ghosts of Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Farooq Shaikh, Rahi Masoom Raza and the censor board officials – both living and dead – who cleared the screening of their 'anti-Hanuman' film in 1983 must be summoned and probed alongside Mohammad Zubair.

The cost of installing the latest sculpture alone – Rs 1000 crore – is equivalent to one-third of the entire allocation of the Union government's culture ministry for this year.

After administering a pledge that seeks to commit acts of terrorism, Chavhanke claims the oath is a verbatim copy of the one taken by a 15-year-old Chhatrapati Shivaji. But are his claims true?

While ridiculing Rahul Gandhi for distinguishing between Hinduism and Hindutva, Ramdev got his semantics wrong.

The Kumbh is held every 12 years but the Haridwar mela comes 11 years after the last because the Centre and the state government chose to appease astrologers rather than look after public health.

The August 1971 protest launched by the Jan Sangh in Delhi, when Modi courted arrest, was to protest the India-USSR Treaty of Friendship – a treaty which gave India the diplomatic cover needed to wage war against Pakistan later that year.

The August 1971 protest launched by the Jan Sangh in Delhi, when Modi courted arrest, was to protest the India-USSR Treaty of Friendship – a treaty which gave India the diplomatic cover needed to wage war against Pakistan later that year.

A violent bigot who got himself recorded seriously assaulting and injuring a child, simply because he's a Muslim, is now again at liberty to flaunt his violence on social media.

If it can be established that there was (a) no rape, and (b) no intent to murder, then the suspects, even if proven guilty, can get away with a sentence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Which is a fairly light sentence.

Transcript shows how Uttar Pradesh police officer stonewalled questions from a persistent reporter, Tanushree Pandey of India Today.

A close look at the culture ministry’s ‘expert committee’ to study the ‘origin and evolution of Indian culture to since 12,000 years before present’.