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Why Delhi poll results are to be seen as polarised despite AAP's huge win

Despite knowing the impact of its anti-Muslim stance on the election results, the BJP stuck to its guns for the long-term political gains to had from fear mongering among Hindus

Kolkata Police stops VHP from distributing 'Hanuman Chalisa' at book fair

Police said they objected to the distribution of the religious book as it could incite passion among the visitors leading to law and order problem

Opposing BJP doesn't mean being against Hindus: RSS Gen Secy Suresh Joshi

His remarks come amid the ongoing protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC)

CAA protests: Calling Faiz 'anti-Hindu' absurd and funny, says Javed Akhtar

Earlier on Thursday, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has set up a committee to look into the issue

Wrong to flaunt superiority if born in Hindu society: Suresh Joshi of RSS

Joshi, the Sarkaryavah of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), said people's values have eroded and there is an indifference towards the motherland

Amid anti-CAA protests, three Hindus from Pak get citizenship in Gujarat

Rajkot Lok Sabha MP Mohan Kundariya handed out the certificates to Harsinh Sodha, Sarupsinh Sodha and Parbatsinh Sodha, who came to India in 2007, at a function held in Vavdi village in Morbi

As protests against citizenship tests swell, what Is Modi's endgame?

Protests in Indian cities against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens have attracted young people of all faiths and none.

Citizenship Amendment Bill is a bid to fashion an ethnic democracy

The Modi govt is fashioning something much more than an electoral strategy; a system that is democratic but also majoritarian

Letter to BS: Political system refusing to allow dissent becomes a tyranny

A letter signed by 49 celebrities was sent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighting the spike in attacks on Muslims, Dalits and other minorities

The Shiv Sena's moment of truth

With its ideology based on resentment having run its course, the party must figure out a new pathway to relevance

Bharat Ratna for Savarkar is an essential piece of Hindutva mosaic

In its manifesto for the Maharashtra state legislature elections, the BJP has promised to confer Bharat Ratna, the highest civil award, posthumously, on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Hindutva's multifaceted founder

Mr Purandare's book is a scrupulous effort to portray the multi-dimensional personality of one of India's more colourfully controversial leaders- Veer Savarkar

Didn't become MP to get your drains or toilets cleaned: BJP's Pragya Thakur

The Hindutva leader further said an MP should be told to do work befitting a parliamentarian

Dhirendra K Jha explains why the world of sadhus is an expanding enterprise

Jha has been a careful chronicler of the Hindutva project, putting in the slog of exhaustive ground reporting to write two well-received books

Hindu family in Assam taking care of a dargah for last 50 years

Dibrugarh (Assam), June 11 (ANI): Setting a precedent of communal harmony to the world is a Hindu family living in the Chabua village of Assam's dibrugarh district, who has been taking care of a dargah for the last fifty years. Belonging to a century-old saint, Hazarat Syed Abdullah Enayatullah who always worked for the welfare of humanity, today the dargah attracts devotees from different parts of Assam. For the last three years, Sanjay Prasad, one among the family members has been taking care of the dargah. The Prasad family is really an inspiration to the world. Its people like them to reinforce our faith in love and compassion and teach us that religion is not meant to divide people but to unite them. >

I would like to see us voting as Indians, says academic Dr Rajat Ganguly

Democracy may have contradictory impacts on identity politics, says Dr Rajat Ganguly

Was ancient India really tolerant? DN Jha's book busts a few myths

Touching upon a range of controversial subjects under labels like 'cow conundrum, Bharatmata, Brahmanical intolerance in early India,' Jha debunks the myths constructed by the Sangh parivar

Why BJP needs to rein in the Hindutva hotheads

For the BJP it is a tug-of-war between vikas and the hotheads

Hindutva push: Anti-conversion bills in Manipur and Assam next?

Manipur's population rose 24% while Christian population increased by 60% in 2001-2011

Hindutva's fringe beneficiaries

For almost a decade, the Jana Sangh remained a marginal political force