Sandeep Balakrishna

A NEW CLASS OF INDIAN now emerged on the scene. He was the khaddar-clad, Gandhi-capped, black-marketeering patriot,” wrote DF Karaka in 1950 in his serial exposés of the first Congress government of independent India. He further showed that “black-marketeering” was the least of Congress' sins, compared, for example, to this: “…some of the office-bearers of the Congress party had formed a company to trade in arms and ammunition and had given the address of Congress House [Bombay] as being that of their company. Congress House had virtually become an ammunition dump.”

Even a century ago, Idli was a dish largely confined to the Tamil-speaking regions. This is rather intriguing given the fact that the Idli's origins are Vedic

WHEN WILL DURANT wrote “most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years,” he was restating a truth about the importance of keeping history afresh in memory.

The groundswell that the Atti Varadaraja festival attracted was, in a way, a signal event that portended this resurgence

When the Arab marauder Tariq landed on the shores of Spain in 711 CE, he burned the ship that had carried his holy army of Islamic warriors.

A “JUDGE'S… IMPEACHMENT UNDER arts. 218 and 124(4) can only be ‘on the ground of proved misbehaviour or incapacity'… [T]o invite politicians to use

Acharya Kavindra Saraswati Vidyanidhi, 17th-century Benares's foremost Pandit, fearlessly challenged Shah Jahan's religious tyranny, forcing the Mughal emperor to retreat

OF ALL THE STATES poised for elections, Tamil Nadu presents the strangest case. The prevailing opinion among psephologists is that this Assembly election defies analysis.

From surviving midnight knocks to outsmarting state usurpers — the untold history of how one publisher checkmated the Congress regime.