Suchitra Karthikeyan

Story so far: On Saturday (August 15, 2026), India’s national song Vande Mataram will be sung from the ramparts of the Red fort — a historical first for the song. Crowning the completion of 150 years since Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay penned Vande Mataram... See more

A s I typed in the words, “First Indian leader to visit the Prambanan temple”, in Google search for an article this week, the answer flashed Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the first Indian leader to visit the historic temple . However, I felt a nagging s... See more

Story so far: “The winds here carry a scent of culture, a scent which connects us and we feel every moment on the soil of India,” waxed Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (July 8, 2026) when he visited the 1200-year-old Prambanan Temple complex in ... See more

“Thackeray is the breath of Maharashtra!” proclaimed Uddhav Thackeray’s faction Shiv Sena (UBT) on social media as it celebrated its parent party’s sixtieth foundation day on Friday (June 19, 2026). Meanwhile, its rival faction, which inherited the party’... See more

Capping his seven-year journey with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), resignation of the party’s former Tamil Nadu chief K. Annamalai was formally accepted by party chief Nitin Nabin on Friday (June 5, 2026). As efforts to retain him in the saffron folds ... See more