Three decades ago, Mumbai (then Bombay) witnessed India’s worst communal riots. For almost a month in 1992, flames of hatred engulfed the country’s financial capital—an unprecedented event that has not been repeated since. Even in those dark times, the city’s politicians of all hues kept certain institutions above the fray. The Siddhivinayak temple, home to […]
Pankaja Munde in 2019. The senior BJP leader attributed her defeat in the 2024 Lok Sabha election to the prevalence of a fake narrative. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI The 2024 Lok Sabha election had its fair share of shock results, and the defeat of the senior BJP leader and former Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Pankaja […]
As the Maharashtra Assembly elections approach, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has ramped up its campaign with the slogan ‘batenge toh katenge’ (If divided, we perish), aimed at invoking Hindu unity. However, Ajit Pawar, a prominent leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and an alliance partner of BJP in Mahayuti, has voiced strong opposition […]
