The common patriarchal character of religious reactions in India underscores the fundamental weakness of the secularism that has been practiced in the country. Instead of promoting the civic equality ...

Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday attacked the Congress, alleging that carrying the “veil of secularism” and the “bag of communalism” was the “brand new Identity” of the ...

At a time when India is going through a phase of disturbances in communal harmony, and there is a raging debate on secularism ...

Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Jan. 24-30, 1998), pp. 167-180 (14 pages) There can be no one agenda for the secular struggle in India today, but several intersecting, colliding, ...

BENGALURU: Karnataka’s political leaders welcomed the Supreme Court’s dismissal of a plea challenging the state government’s ...

What does a child of the Partition, who has spent his life fighting communalism, do at 75? If he were Lajpat Rai, he takes the fight for secularism to a new level and opens a library at Naigaon. And ...

As Bangladesh debates large-scale constitutional reform, one issue in particular is beginning to echo a parallel debate taking place across the border in India. Two words are at the centre of this ...

People visit the Notre Dame de la Garde Basilica on April 19 in Marseille, southern France. (Daniel Cole/Associated Press) MARSEILLE, France — Brought into the international spotlight by the ban on ...

Left Democratic Front (LDF) government of `cultivating majoritarian communalism to sow seeds of hatred,’ Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan on Saturday reaffirmed the United Democratic Front’s ...

MARSEILLE, France (AP) — As the world’s eyes turn to France, host of the Olympics in two months, this unique way to define the role of religion in public life is getting more scrutiny. MARSEILLE, ...

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday strongly criticised the decision to award national honours to the film The Kerala Story, calling it an endorsement of efforts to use cinema to spread ...

"The party (CPI (M)) had for years appeased minorities before the last parliamentary elections and has now shifted to majority appeasement, thus lacking any genuine commitment to secularism," ...