Should 21st century citizens of the world’s largest democracy live in fear of committing the medieval crime of blasphemy? This is the question raised by the violent rampage earlier this month in West ...

Should future historians debate precisely when the project of Nehruvian secularism breathed its last, their shortlist will surely include this date: May 23, 2019. Until election results poured in that ...

The recent elections in four states and one federally ruled territory in India threw up results that sent shock waves to the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that runs the federal government in ...

Nitin Gadkari said the meaning of the English word 'secular' is 'sarva dharma bhav' in Hindi or 'justice to all and appeasement of none' in English, not 'dharmanirpeksh' as the Congress described it ' ...

When religious particularism starts destroying the democratic as well as the social inclusivism of a society, the result is ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The present paper purports to examine and analyze the concept of Secularism in the context of world in general and India in particular. India ...

New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi's remarks on the origin of the word secularism have sparked off a huge row as he called it a "European concept" and suggested that the same does not have any ...

The Indian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 78, No. 3 (July-September, 2017), pp. 335-342 (8 pages) The word 'Secularism' is derived from Latin word 'Saeculum' which means 'of this age ' 'related to ...

After reading A Maverick in Politics 1991-2024 (Juggernaut), my response was that this is a book written by a brilliant mind. These are not the memoirs of a maverick but a brilliant ideologue caught ...