• The Federal
    Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
    About the AuthorNilanjan Mukhopadhyay
    Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay’s latest book is 'The Demolition and the Verdict: Ayodhya and the Project to Reconfigure India'. His other books include 'The RSS: Icons of the Indian Right' and 'Narendra Modi: The Man, The Times'. He tweets at @NilanjanUdwin.
      RSS at 100: How Italian fascism influenced Hindu nationalist politics
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      RSS at 100: How Italian fascism influenced Hindu nationalist politics

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      Amir Khan Muttaqi
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      India forgot its idealistic roots when it broke bread with the Taliban

      19 Oct 2025 4:58 PM IST
      Bihar election 2025: Issues dominate over caste, says Manisha Priyam
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      Bihar election 2025: Issues dominate over caste, says Manisha Priyam

      16 Oct 2025 6:30 AM IST
      Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, Tanika Sarkar
      India

      How RSS has reshaped India’s history, politics: Historian Tanika Sarkar explains

      9 Oct 2025 12:34 PM IST
      Bihar election
      Opinion

      From Champaran to SIR to vote chori, Bihar’s electoral soul at stake

      7 Oct 2025 5:19 PM IST
      Modi and Bhagwat
      Opinion

      RSS centenary celebrations: Modi, Bhagwat rely on duplicitous rhetoric, gloss over real issues

      5 Oct 2025 2:48 PM IST
      Modern Assam result of centuries of social, economic, political changes
      Assam

      'Modern Assam result of centuries of social, economic, political changes'

      2 Oct 2025 6:25 PM IST
      Why Modi Asia Cup post knocks sportsmanship, military valour
      Opinion

      Why Modi's Asia Cup post undermines sportsmanship and military valour

      30 Sept 2025 12:49 PM IST
      RSS at 100 | Was the Sangh anti-colonial? Not at all, says historian
      India

      RSS at 100 | Was the Sangh anti-colonial? Not at all, says historian

      26 Sept 2025 6:30 AM IST
      Modi in Manipur
      Opinion

      Modi's Manipur visit is a missed opportunity to heal a fractured state

      16 Sept 2025 2:51 PM IST
      Supreme Court at 75
      India

      'Incomplete justice?': Justice S Muralidhar on courts, secularism, and Ayodhya verdict

      15 Sept 2025 3:26 PM IST
      Hazratbal Dargah in Kashmir
      Opinion

      Ashoka Emblem row: From reverence to resentment, the Hazratbal misstep

      14 Sept 2025 10:00 AM IST
      RSS: Origins, clashes, khilafat
      Politics

      RSS at 100: 'Hindu Mahasabha emerged because Congress avoided religious issues'

      10 Sept 2025 3:16 PM IST
      Are Muslims outnumbering Hindus? Author SY Quraishi on Modi’s demographic mission
      India

      Are Muslims outnumbering Hindus? Author SY Quraishi on Modi’s demographic mission

      6 Sept 2025 6:30 AM IST
      PM Modis I-Day speech: Clear bid to placate RSS ahead of its centenary
      Opinion

      PM Modi's I-Day speech: Clear bid to placate RSS ahead of its centenary

      16 Aug 2025 12:18 PM IST
      Kashmir books
      Opinion

      Inside the blacklist: 25 books banned in Jammu and Kashmir for inciting 'secessionism'

      14 Aug 2025 6:20 AM IST
      Rakshanda Jalil, Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
      Programmes

      Urdu beyond stereotypes: Rakshanda Jalil on identity and politics of language

      5 Aug 2025 10:08 AM IST
      No Global Support for Op Sindoor: Former Diplomat Venu Rajamony Questions India’s Strategy
      Politics

      Ex-envoy Rajamony questions India's diplomatic success after Op Sindoor

      28 July 2025 7:10 PM IST
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      India

      Why are India’s millionaires emigrating? Sanjaya Baru interview

      27 July 2025 8:02 PM IST
      Congress MP Shashi Tharoor
      Opinion

      Why Shashi Tharoor’s take on the Emergency is deeply flawed

      15 July 2025 6:29 PM IST
      RSS-Bhagwat meeting
      Opinion

      Will Bhagwat retire at 75 and put pressure on Modi to follow suit?

      12 July 2025 9:23 AM IST
      Indias middle class struggling
      India

      Has India’s middle class changed over the last few years? Author Pavan K Varma explains

      9 July 2025 6:20 AM IST
      Book on Lal Bahadur Shastri
      India

      'Lal Bahadur Shastri gave dignity to 3rd class train passengers': Author Sanjeev Chopra

      4 July 2025 6:39 PM IST
      RSS call to review ‘secularism’, ‘socialism’ may put BJP in peril
      Opinion

      RSS call to review ‘secularism’, ‘socialism’ may put BJP in peril

      28 Jun 2025 2:39 PM IST
      50 years of Emergency
      India

      50 years on: Emergency's shadows visible in Indian polity

      25 Jun 2025 8:48 AM IST
      PM Narendra Modi
      Opinion

      Is Modi India's best PM ever? It's green and red

      19 Jun 2025 6:20 AM IST
      India’s nationalism is being reshaped through imitation and exclusion
      India

      Our nationalism turned narrow, sectarian: Yogendra Yadav interview

      13 Jun 2025 3:13 PM IST
      Year 1 of Modi 3.0: PM calls the shots as powerful allies remain non-assertive
      The Federal Special

      Year 1 of Modi 3.0: PM calls the shots as powerful allies remain non-assertive

      8 Jun 2025 10:03 AM IST
      India stands diplomatically alone
      Interviews

      Operation Sindoor | India’s win, risks, and rising isolation |Interview

      28 May 2025 6:20 AM IST
      All-party outreach to draw zilch if BJP doesn’t give up divisive agenda
      Opinion

      All-party outreach to draw zilch if BJP doesn’t give up divisive agenda

      18 May 2025 6:32 PM IST
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