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Letter to the Editor: Identifying Indian Right

Strong nationalism is always a defining feature of our ideological leaning, says BJP spokesperson

Anti-Muslim slogans: Delhi Police arrests ex-BJP spokesperson, 5 others

The Delhi Police has arrested six people, including advocate and former BJP spokesperson Ashwini Upadhyay, in connection with the anti-Muslim slogans allegedly raised during a protest at Jantar Mantar

Best of BS Opinion: Making of BJP's social rules, Covid-19 vaccines & more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Friday

The making of BJP's social rules

From conservative to radical, the party's stand on marriage and population control has evolved in two distinct phases: One when it was in power, another when it was not

Population control fiasco

The ill-advised two-child policy must be reviewed

The Muslim question

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat unwittingly highlighted the covert chauvinism in so-called polite society, and that includes the Indian corporate sector

Best of BS Opinion: Stock market as mirror, politics in diversity & more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Saturday

Religion for social acceptance

The combination of atheism plus religious identity shows that, for many people, religion is about social acceptance

Politics in diversity

PEW survey of Indians' religiosity tells you why Modi's rivals have failed to challenge him: Confused secularism that's ceded religion to the BJP

Sub-African India

Much of Africa is doing better than India while our mis-governance, lousy identity politics, corruption, self-congratulation, empty triumphalism, are threatening to catch up and ruin our self-image

Best of BS Opinion: Sub-African India, RBI monetary policy, and more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Saturday

'Old' RSS through a 'new' lens

Book review of Republic of Hindutva: How the Sangh is Reshaping Indian Democracy

The next three years

It is possible to imagine a different future for India

Shekhar Gupta: Mosques in the rear-view mirror

Varanasi court order on Gyanvapi mosque questions the optimism that Ayodhya wouldn't be repeated. Spending too much time looking at the past is a recipe for disaster

Sounds of silence

Wasim Jaffer quit as coach of the Uttarakhand cricket team on Feb 9 after he was accused of being communal. Big guns of Indian cricket, with few exceptions, remained silent

Best of BS Opinion: Feasible fiscal path, inadequate cover, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

A sense of justice

Book review of In Pursuit of Justice: An Autobiography

When politics marries communalism

A book explores the political narrative around love jihad at ground zero, Uttar Pradesh

Disquiet in Congress as some veterans openly support Ram temple

TN Prathapan, the party's Lok Sabha MP from Kerala, in a letter to Sonia Gandhi, questioned the support senior Congress leaders Kamal Nath and Digvijay Singh extended to the construction of the temple

How Kejriwal's AAP and Modi's BJP are strikingly similar, and yet different

The two offer the same package - personality cult, populist schemes, inflated claims, etc - but the hard edge to BJP's communalism is missing in AAP, a difference we should celebrate, writes T N Ninan