India Archive

Contemporary politics is highly polarised. Ours is the age of binaries and divisions of convenience. The Right-Left binary that originated in the times of the French Revolution when liberal deputies of the Third Estate would generally sit to the left of the presiding officer’s chair while the nobility (the Second Estate) would sit to the right, in a custom that began in the Estates General in 1789, has become the premise of delineating party politics and ideology the world over.

A day after speeches of leaders like Yati Narsinghanand and other Hindu leaders went viral, an FIR has been filed in Uttarakhand over the speeches that called upon Hindus to collect arms. The speeches were deemed as provocative and social media was rife with Leftists and Islamists claiming that the speeches called for a Muslim genocide.

On an average day, Indian liberals manage to find fault with something or the other about when PM Modi wakes up, what he eats for breakfast, what clothes he wears and so on. It allows them to carry on their lives with a very peculiar sense of victimhood. Why does Narendra Modi live like he is a successful person? More precisely, how dare he act like his father was rich?

Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a powerful politician? Such as a chief minister, or even Prime Minister. I know you have. Imagine how cool it would be to have all those people running around, giving you lots of respect. Because you have the power to change their lives. 

Mahabharatha is not just one of India’s oldest epics but it is also a treasure trove of life lessons that apply to this day and perhaps forever. Running along the main theme it has countless stories and stories within stories.

On December 20, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, issued two orders banning two websites and twenty YouTube channels that were feeding propaganda content on the behest of Pakistan. As per the December 21 press release about the order, these websites and channels were part of Pakistan’s coordinated disinformation campaign against India.

Senior Congress leader and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi today took to Twitter to sarcastically thank PM Modi after two mobs in two separate incidents lynched two men over allegations of sacrilege in Congress-ruled Punjab.

Several months ago, BBC had published an article based on a pseudo-historical legend. The article states Avarna (low caste women) from Kerala were not allowed to wear upper garments and used to pay ‘breast tax’ to cover their breasts. The article also states that, to protest this, a low caste Avarna woman named Nangeli from Ezhava caste chopped off her breasts and presented it to the tax officials. It was later published in ‘The News Minute’ as well by Supriya Unni Nair, when CBSE removed this section from its social science textbook.

The corpse was clad in white dhoti and golden silk kurta.¹ At 2.30 p.m., it was brought from Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences to 9 Motilal Nehru Marg. PV Narasimha Rao, prime minister of India from 1991 to 1996, had died at around 11 a.m., 23 December 2004. The doctors had needed a couple of hours to dress the body before sending it back home.

On December 13, dozens of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers showed up at the wedding of slain Constable Shailendra Pratap Singh’s sister. Constable Singh of the 110 Battalion of CRPF made the supreme sacrifice on October 5, 2020, while valiantly retaliating a terrorist attack in Pulwama.