A decades-old spat over alleged Hindi imposition in the southern state of Tamil Nadu has erupted again. Here’s why.

Devdutt Patnaik explores the 'politics of grain' in India, highlighting differences in rice and wheat consumption among North ...

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With its age-old fascination for education, southern states have done better than the North. Start-ups, IT hubs, and industry majors setting up shop have changed the face of the South. Nearly 79% of ...

Shashi Tharoor fears that the government’s push to redraw the electoral map will favor poorer, more populous states.

The controversy now threatens to deepen the political, economic and cultural divide between India’s north and south. That has long historical roots but has grown starker in recent years ...

India redrew parliamentary seats three times based on the decennial census―in 1951, 1961 and 1971. As India’s population increased, so did the number of Lok Sabha seats: Since 1971 ...

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao raised concerns over what he called the possibility of a "disproportionate increase in number of seats" in the Lok Sabha and assemblies of ...