The RSS, the BJP’s ideological fount, too has campaigned for promotion of Indian languages for a long time, but has been careful to avoid being seen as a campaigner to make Hindi a unifying language or according it the status of a national language. read more

Union home Minister Amit Shah’s comments that people should increase the use of their mother tongue and also use Hindi to realise the dreams of Bapu (Mahatam Gandhi) and iron man Sardar Patel has stoked a controversy read more

A lot of what is great about India even today owes its origins to the princely order and the various states that they ruled. This is true of cricket, art and culture, handicrafts, folk traditions, industry, irrigation,textiles, tourism, and even institutions... read more

The image was shared on Twitter on August 30 by IAS officer Dev Choudhary. read more

Independence Day 2019: Prime Minister started his address by paying tribute to all the freedom fighters who laid their lives under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi to win India Independence. read more

PM Modi said no one has been able to justify how the Article 370 and Article 35A was benefitting people of the state. read more

The truth is that Sardar Patel and Nehruji were a team, and they worked together as one on very many issues, says Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. read more

On Wednesday, the prime minister met MPs who were part of his council of ministers between 2014 and 2019 over breakfast. read more

The home minister, in his reply, blamed the Congress for the situation in the state. On the one hand, the Congress accuses the BJP of trampling on democracy in J&K, and, on the other, when it was in charge, it imposed Article 356 (President’s rule) 93... read more

Sinha said he wanted to take Maulana Azad’s name but instead, uttered the name of Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah. read more

Shatrughan Sinha, who recently left BJP and joined Congress, on Friday lauded Muhammad Ali Jinnah along with Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru, saying they all had a role to play for India’s independence. read more

In an election rally in Gujarat , Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s statue in Gujarat was not intended to disrespect former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru read more

At Junagarh in Gujarat, PM Modi, speaking mostly in Gujarati, said the Congress is working on single-point agenda of ‘Modi Hatao’ in the Lok Sabha elections. read more

In 2019, the electoral battle in many ways seems to be a replay of 2014. read more

A new English edition of the autobiography of Swami Sahajananad Saraswati introduces the monk, freedom fighter and leader of the peasant movement to a wider readership read more