From Gyanvapi to Sinauli and Vadnagar, the ASI’s misuse of archaeology only serves the RSS’s ideological takeover of history.
While the government’s decision to accord ST status to Pahari-speaking people turned public sentiment in the BJP’s favour in Poonch and Rajouri, there was widespread dissatisfaction with the party in its traditional stronghold.
The land suffers, the groundwater is contaminated. As the crisis deepens, consumers across the world sense its faintest tremors whenever they pick up a bar of chocolate and find the price has increased.