Partition

Baldev Singh birth anniversary: Interesting facts about first Defence Minister of independent India

Baldev Singh played an important role in the country’s struggle for freedom. He represented the Punjabi Sikh community in the negotiations which resulted in India’s independence as well as the Partition of the country

Hate speech case: Chhattisgarh HC grants bail to religious leader Kalicharan Maharaj

Chhattisgarh Police had arrested Kalicharan Maharaj on the charge of promoting enmity between classes after he used derogatory words against Mahatma Gandhi and hailed his assassin Nathuram Godse

From Goa inquisition to Moplah riots: As India debates The Kashmir Files, a look at Hindu genocides

It is now essential for Hindus to speak up for themselves and for the government to throw light on atrocities against them

Rereading Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan on his 107th birth anniversary

Khushwant Singh's Train To Pakistan stumbles into individual feelings, instead of statistics, the human psyche instead of politics. Because when something like Partition becomes so catastrophic, we often remove the human out of it.

FIR against Hindu religious leader Kalicharan Maharaj for using derogatory words against Mahatma Gandhi

Kalicharan had used an 'abusive' word against Gandhi and asked people in Chhattisgarh to elect a staunch Hindu leader as head of the government to protect the religion

Kashmir's Wantrag, a Pashtun village, is like a little slice of Afghanistan

While many of these families say they took shelter in this village well before Partition, roots of Afghans in the region date back even before the 16th Century

Wrong to link Savarkar with Gandhi’s assassination, even Ambedkar thought he was implicated at Nehru’s behest

Just before Partition, Godse repeatedly accused Savarkar and other senior Hindu Mahasabha leaders of being passive in opposing the Congress and Gandhi. Savarkar had even chided Godse for interrupting and bullying Gandhi in a public meeting in June 1947, two months before Partition

SC order allowing deportation of Rohingya migrants runs contrary to principles of human dignity

The ruling of the Supreme Court is reminiscent of the jurisprudential baggage that India has been carrying since partition

West Bengal polls: BJP, Muslim-led parties hope to unseat TMC as religious polarisation gains ground

Bengal is not like any other state of India when it comes to Hindu-Muslim politics. Both Hindu and Muslim religious politics have deep roots here, going back to the first Partition of Bengal in 1905.

Our Hindu Rashtra review: In new book, Aakar Patel charts India's descent into a majoritarian nation

Comparing India’s case to Pakistan’s, it becomes clear that the mainstreaming of religious politics is having the same kind of effect here that Pakistan has already undergone.