Cross Connections

Have we exhausted all options that political parties are fighting over who spoke about sanitary facilities first? If this is a necessity, t...

Next time I want to become part of the ‘mainstream’ I will wear red bracelets. If any of you thought that Hinduism was associated with saffr...

It is lecture time. “The interest of ordinary Muslims in new India lies in embracing modernity,” says Minhaz Merchant. The headline of the e...

Let’s wait. No, said the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad Supreme Court. A retired bureaucrat, Ramesh Chand Tripathi, filed a petition challen...

L.K. Advani is by far the shrewdest politician India has produced since Mahatma Gandhi. When he talks about pseudo-secularism he should be l...

What judgement can they pronounce on the Ayodhya case when it is now referred to as the “60-year-old Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi title suit”...

I am not terribly enthused about the 1,000 page report by Justice M S Liberhan. It says what has been said so many times these past so many ...

I understand these things take time. That is not my grouse against the M. S. Liberhan Report into the 1992-93 riots following the demolition...

Dear Sadhviji: You talk of upholding the truth, but you are lying that you don’t know who demolished the Babri Masjid. This is like saying H...