Abhishek De

The Congress won the 2022 election in Himachal Pradesh using the legacy of former chief minister Virbhadra Singh. The Congress brass made Sukhvinder Sukhu the chief minister, ignoring the claims of the six-time chief minister's wife. It's Virbhadra who is haunting the party now.

The BJP has been attacking regional parties of 'parivarvaad' or dynastic rule. Family-run parties are more prone to splits.

Numerous Indian monuments have been lost forever. So much so that not even a photo is available of them in the public domain. We are talking about monuments that are thousands of years old. In one case, parts of an 8th Century temple have been looted to be used in homes.

The Congress has claimed that the Hindu Mahasabha allied with the Muslim League to run governments in three provinces. Why did the Savarkar-led Mahasabha and the Jinnah-led Muslim League come together despite polar opposite ideologies? Is Congress saying the complete truth?

From PM Modi declaring his love for upma to row over Tejashwi Yadav's fish video, food is dominating the political discourse this Lok Sabha poll season. It is often said that the way to a person's heart is through his stomach. Will food politics influence the voters?

The country is witnessing a political slugfest over wealth distribution sparked by Rahul Gandhi's pitch for a financial survey. The debate has brought back to public memory a compulsory deposit scheme that Congress-led governments implemented in 1963 and 1974, which locked away a part of people's money.

In May, the Maldivian tourism minister appealed to Indians to be part of the country's tourism as its economy depended on it. Its foreign minister will be in India on May 9. The Maldives is reaching out to Indians after tourists from India to the country dipped by 42% in the first four months of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023.

The US is co-hosting the T20 Cricket World Cup this year. There is a growing craze for cricket in the US, the home to baseball, especially due to the huge South Asian community. But cricket, still barely understood by most Americans, is making its way into their homes, holding the hands of baseball, its distant bat-and-ball cousin.

The BJP is putting everything this election season to tap the 25 years of anti-incumbency sentiments against the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD government in Odisha.

The age-old tradition of soil from a red-light district being used for making Durga idols was depicted in Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Devdas. It came as a revelation to millions of people in India. The custom is mentioned in the Puranas and is also associated with Lord Ram. However, 'punya mati' has been commercialised now, and the tradition is on the wane.