Officials have picked up people across the country, most of them Muslim, citing a national security risk. Rights groups say ...

Sam Dalrymple’s pacy history of the making of modern Asia is a reminder of the role of chance in the creation of nations ...

On this World Indigenous Peoples’ Day, it is time for the government to acknowledge and respect their distinct cultural ...

Comparatively, fertility rates among less-than-weekly-attending Americans drops to around 1.7 and below 1.5 for nonreligious ...

Extending his greetings on World Tribal Day, tribal leader Surya Singh Besra appealed for unity among indigenous peoples across the world and reiterated the demand for a separate religion code for ...

In his book, 'In Praise of Coalition Politics', Manoj Kumar Jha interrogates the state of Indian democracy through political ...

India has a democratic set-up in which people elect the Government through adult franchise. Due to its pluralistic culture, every citizen has been given the right and freedom of religious belief ...

The Banyan collaborated on this special issue. We hope to spark conversations across India that reflect on mental health ...

The Dharali tragedy in Uttarakhand, a state famous for India’s Char Cham circuit, was a reminder of how fragile mountainous ...

Catholic priests, two nuns and a catechist in the Diocese of Balasore in the Odisha of India, were assaulted by right wing ...

A member of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India has been accused of making “provocative statements” ...

The massacre of the Druze minority by Islamist and government forces provided Israel with an excuse to again start bombing ...