India has always been the indispensable swing vowel in the BRICS acronym. If the bloc’s current strategic direction and possible enlargement push the country toward the exit, the grouping will become not just unpronounceable, but also unviable.

The BJP, with its insistence on the purity of Hindu Rashtra, would sadly reduce the soaring generosity of their founding vision to the petty bigotry of majoritarian chauvinism.

A common error in the use of the language by over-enthusiastic speakers and writers, is a combination of two or more incompatible metaphors

Shashi Tharoor explains the history of the term that has taken the internet by storm

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar recently won plaudits, particularly in Muslim countries, for his confident assertion of the country’s strategic autonomy concerning the Ukraine war. But then the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party unleashed more Hindu-chauvinist rhetoric, severely damaging India’s standing in the Islamic world.

We seem to have a government that can’t distinguish between itself and the political party that dominates it.

There are four types of misprints that tend to evoke hilarity