Cover Stories

Ashok Singhal: Moving Spirit

Amita Shah

Ashok Singhal was unperturbed by what people said about him, focused on his task

Places of Worship or Prisoners of War?

J Sai Deepak

What is the right way to reclaim occupied dharmic sites?

The Proof of the Past

Siddharth Singh

How historians like BB Lal brought the facts of Ayodhya to light

Rites of Ram’s Memory

Sandeep Balakrishna

Hindus reclaimed Ram Janmabhoomi because they had kept alive the memory of their loss for 500 years

The Ideal Hero

Shashi Kiran BN

Ram as the sculptor of the Indian national character

Return to the Sacred City

Bibek Debroy

A portrait of Ayodhya in the time of Ram

Mass of Faith

Arvind Sharma

The significance of Dasharath's capital

Here Comes the Indian Armada

Rajeev Deshpande

India steps up its role in policing the Somalia-Arabian Sea zone using state-of-the-art information analytics and deploying missile ships and marine commandos

As the Middle East conflict spreads from Gaza to the Red Sea, there is hope yet for an optimistic outcome that can stabilise the region by bringing states closer together and countering the polarisation of recent years