As public sector banks fall short of meeting rural India's credit requirements, the money lender, often usurious, has re-emerged as a key financial pl
"There is no evidence on the record produced before the Court indicating any criminality in the acts allegedly committed by the accused persons r
On December 6, 1992 a frenzied mob of kar sevaks pulled down the Babri Masjid in the presence of Lal Krishna Advani and other top Sangh Parivar leade
For a young anthropologist living in the U.K.’s largely Pakistani neighbourhood, Bradford, news of the demolition of Babri Masjid was a bombshell.
The demolition of Babri Masjid 25 years ago, was the culmination of a long process of Hinduisation which had its roots in the revivalist–reformist mov
The story of India’s democracy since the Ayodhya demolition has been one of the withering away of foundational values. Sukumar Muralidharan, Associ
Reporting fast-paced breaking news is always an interesting challenge. On December 6, 1992, when the Babri Masjid was being demolished, Qurban Ali,
Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Senior Associate Editor, Frontline, has covered the Ayodhya issue since 1986 when the locks of the makeshift temple
"For the first time in my life I felt I was a Muslim, a defeated and humiliated Muslim. It was not the India of my dreams and my beliefs. I grew
Pawan K. Varma, the national spokesperson of the Janata Dal (United), and until recently advisor to the Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar,
"This was no demolition of a mere mosque. It was, in its effect, a beginning of the era in India when politics of deception and trickery of the Sangh
On December 6, 1992, when the Babri Masjid was razed to a rubble by a frenzied group of kar sevaks, a young journalist, Sajeda Momin, who was a
The AIADMK government has moved away from the late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and party supremo, Jayalalithaa’s fundamental doctrine of dealing with th
India's education system has remained a much-discussed, but less understood social issue. Its linkages with development are complex, and so are the ec