Author: Sankrant Sanu

Of the thousands of sites, Hindus have long asked for three most important ones — Ayodhya, Kashi and Mathura — to be returned to them. This is not a big demand Pic…

When an ideology of exclusive belief which basically implies ideas like ‘we are going to heaven, others are going to hell,’ splinters, each part exhibits the same antipathy towards the ‘other’ Pic:…

Among the many announcements made by Prime Minister Modi, in his August 15, 2020 speech, from the ramparts of the Red Fort, the one regarding the Government’s determination to raise the “age…

Hindu women devotees are not relieved, but distressed by the judgment. If so, who exactly did the Supreme Court provide relief to? Who is celebrating this judgment, asks Sankrant Sanu. Let us…

Two men[i]. Two different scholarly readings. The first man A Crown Prince. Later a King. He vowed to be a one-woman man, have only his one beloved wife as his Queen though…

As Indian films and television increasingly show sexual content there are plenty of commentators extolling this as progress in catching up with the “sexually liberated” West. But is the West truly sexually…

Colonial accounts of Indian Society created a narrative of “oppression” and justified the White Man’s rule as necessary for civilizing the natives. The threads of this run parallel to the missionary narrative…

‘One one hand, the BJP puts Uniform Civil Code as a goal in its manifesto, and on the other, it pushes massive discrimination against Hindus.’ ‘This is not sabka saath, sabka vikas. Rather…

When I first realized that Christians believed in the doctrine of “exclusive salvation via Jesus” and that non-Christians were going to hell, it came as a shock to me as a child…

Madhu Kishwar is a patriot whose freedom of expression needs to be supported by all, especially the liberals, argues Sankrant Sanu. The Indian polity is plagued by two strange situations, one of…