The BJP’s core philosophy of ‘integral humanism' places dharma above all. Which makes secularism fatally flawed and diversity ...

While writing my previous blog on how and why Narendra Modi went out of his way to promote English when he was Gujarat chief minister — despite opposition from people in the Sangh Parivar — I came ...

We marked the 50th anniversary of the Emergency a few days ago. Another anniversary, this time the 75th, went relatively ...

S.P. Mookerjee, in his statement to Parliament on April 19, 1950 said that he had “played a very large part in creating ...

We marked the 50th anniversary of the Emergency a few days ago. But this other anniversary, the formation of the Bharatiya ...

The SCO statement said they “strongly condemn the military strikes carried out by Israel” and that “such aggressive actions ...

This might help explain why our global outreach has received such a tepid response. We have chosen to be transactional with the world, as our UN votes reveal, points out Aakar Patel.

Columnists Aakar Patel 16 Jun 2025 9:54 PM IST The manifestoes of the BJP from the very beginning, in its Jan Sangh avatar in the 1950s, have little to offer in terms of foreign policy doctrine ...

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At the beginning of this year, on January 28, they posted the following justification for concluding that in 2025 we were closer to annihilation than in 1947 ...