Out of the 482 candidates analysed for the 1st phase of elections, 104 candidates or 22 per cent have declared criminal cases against them
Rahul Gandhi makes a last-day special appearance as the campaigning ends for the first phase of elections
Sushma Swaraj says Modi is fit to be the PM, but has Navjot Singh Sidhu queered the pitch by calling Keshubhai Patel "anti-national"?
The nomination of Shweta Bhatt, wife of suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, from Maninagar in Ahmedabad against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi seems to have rattled him
It is now abundantly clear that most Sangh Parivar outfits in the state and that includes the RSS, the VHP and the Bhartiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) are split with a section openly vouching support for Keshubhai Patel
The media may have written off former BJP patriarch Keshubhai Patel, but his party is also banking on the support it is receiving from the sangh parivar organs in the state
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.