Last Friday morning, violent clashes broke out within the premises of the Golden Temple in the city of Amritsar in which many people were injured. The violence erupted between Sikh radical group Shiromani Akali Dal (Mann) and Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) Task Force during a ceremony to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Operation…
There have been numerous articles written about Narendra Modi, who will be sworn in as the Prime Minister of India on May 26, 2014, after a huge victory in 16th Lok Sabha elections. He has been praised as well as criticised on his secular credentials, governance, politics and what not. In the last decade, Narendra…
Recently on a talk show Seedhi Baat on news channel Aaj Tak, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nitin Gadkari, among other things, said that abrogation of Article 370 of Indian constitution is part of party’s ideology and after coming to power, BJP will work on it. In its manifesto, BJP has reiterated its stand on Article…
Women have always been an important part of Indian politics, and their participation in public life goes back to pre-independence times. Their representation in the political institutions however has been far less compared to that of their male counterparts. In the current Parliament of India only 11 per cent of the seats are held by…
On the early morning of 4th March, 2014, I along with my friends boarded an express train from the city of Hyderabad for the city of Delhi. My Hyderabadi friends were excited about the journey to Rajdhani of our country, so was I. We were scattered in different air-conditioned coaches of the train. In present…