Amita Shah
From behind the scenes as well as the frontline, they provided the intellectual, political and spiritual ballast to a movement that culminated on Demolition Day
LK Advani was the original apostle of hardcore Hindutva and the man who mobilised India for the sake of Rama
The operative emotion here is one of longing—for better work, opportunities, some development, and, of course, for the grand temple. The contrast with intellectual India could not be more different
Charge him with separatism or uphold him as a visionary, Syed Ahmad Khan has left us plenty to puzzle out
The end of an idea that was Indian politics’ greatest contradiction
From the election of Ram Nath Kovind as the next President to the unravelling in Bihar to the impending Supreme Court verdict on triple talaq, Modi sets the terms for the big battle even as the Congress sinks deeper into irrelevance