India Today Insight

Author Pico Iyer says India is too huge to be typecast and unity is the last refuge of those terrified of difference

Jurist Fali S. Nariman argues why the union of a strong Centre and weak states has not worked for the country

Commentator Swapan Dasgupta says privately, the Indian epitomises goodness and morality; collectively he is the Ugly Indian

Author Mukul Kesavan says cricket, while under-represented by tribals and Dalits, is a great totem of India’s pluralism

Even if we speak in a thousand different tongues, some unique Indianisms identify us as one people

Writer V.S. Naipul says if not for Partition, the religious question would have paralysed and consumed India

Executive chef Vijay Thapliyal of The Lodhi, New Delhi, suggests a fruity way to enjoy the goodness of yoghurt

A review of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s book ‘Memories of My Melancholy Whores’

From Amitabh Bachchan to Sachin Tendulkar, prominent voices reflect on how far we have come and how far we still need to go

With the RBI keeping the repo rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent and rate cuts unlikely in this financial year, the wait for cheaper home and other retail loans gets longer

The 6 per cent additional quota announced for OBCs and proposed caste census have big implications for Rajasthan politics

PM Modi will dedicate to the nation the project marking the completion of the doubling of the Bina-Kota rail route. The additional railway line will be launched in Sagar, and will help ease coal movement.

The immediate villain is the spike in tomato rates, but overall food and beverage inflation has also been on the rise

PM Modi will be in Sagar on August 12 to lay the foundation stone for a temple for Dalit icon Ravi Das

After enduring jail and ill-health, the RJD boss is busy energising party cadre and the national Opposition alliance