Basant Rawat

Ordinary Indians pay price for Gandhian hypocrisy

Gujarat bans liquor as a mark of respect for Mahatma Gandhi but has failed to rein in bootleggers

India's first tribal woman president won’t change a thing

Draupadi Murmu has never spoken for the indigenous rights of her people, who constitute 8.6 percent of the population

Indian Christians have little to cheer about in Modi's Gujarat

There's little hope or assurance of adequate political representation in upcoming provincial polls

Why is Gujarat’s lone Christian legislator a worried man?

Protestant assemblyman Punaji Gamit is fretting over the demand to remove converts from the Scheduled Tribes list

Indian PM on sticky wicket for renaming stadium after himself

The usually loyal Patels are furious with Narendra Modi for disrespecting their chieftain

Denied livelihoods, Indian Muslim fisherfolk ask for right to die

Fishermen and their families from Gujarat's coast have approached a court after being stopped from fishing since 2016

Skewed sex ratio leads to dubious marriages in India

Gujarat's influential Patels are looking at marital alliances with indigenous communities to overcome the gender gap

Report alleging 'church for votes' fuels tension in India

Pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate is accused of promising a church to appease tribal Christians in Gujarat

Indian nationalists increase cow slaughter penalty    

Activists and a church official said Gujarat's new law is pure electioneering  

Mother embodies Catholic spirit in Cambodian capital

Singapore carries out 10 executions in four months

Explosion kills 8 in Shiite area of Afghan capital

Congolese bishops offer to rebuild dialogue

Pope Francis advances sainthood causes

Church celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day in Taiwan