VHP

Ashok Singhal: Moving Spirit

Amita Shah

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

‘We are not talking of 3,000 shrines, we can end it with these three’

The Kashi and Mathura temple-mosque disputes should not be allowed to linger and the cases can be resolved by consensus, Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) Working President Alok Kumar tells Rajeev Deshpande

Faith and Fury in Mangaluru

V Shoba

Mangaluru in southern Karnataka is one of the strongholds of Hindutva’s militant fringe. As Assembly elections loom, the cause celebre is love jihad

Bisauli: A Place for Sedition

Omkar Khandekar

In this town, they support Pakistan and their numbers worry Hindu activists

The Hindu Tea Party: Can Narendra Modi Ignore It?

PR Ramesh and Siddharth Singh

They are more Hindu than the so-called Hindu lunatic fringe, and they are growing in size and influence

A Comedy of Terrors

Madhavankutty Pillai

On the choices that AR Rahman faces

Return To Godhra

Omkar Khandekar

Back to back arrests of three accused who had been absconding for 13 years brings one of India’s most volatile datelines back into focus. Strangely, they seem to have been right under the noses of the police all this while