Bollywood’s passive-aggressive attitude towards Hinduism
My daughter was insisting that we watch “funny videos” on YouTube (casting on TV) while she had her scrambled egg breakfast and waited for her math teacher to show up. When I started the YouTube app, I came More...
Ridiculing Hindu gods and deities is easier and safer
The recent comments by Prashant Bhushan about Lord Krishna have enraged, I would say rightly, many devout Hindus. Surprisingly, when it comes to Lord Krishna, I saw that even those who often sit at the fence on More...
My thoughts on Jallikattu
There has been a nationwide debate going on whether the age-old festival celebrated in southern states, Jallikattu, should be banned or not. The Supreme Court of India banned the organisation of Jallikattu in 2014 More...
Why Narendra Modi is Good News for Persons with Disabilities in India
Narendra Modi isn’t much liked in the left-lib-dominated circles of the country and this includes disability advocacy groups. Unfortunately, most of such groups are replete with ideologically atrophied individuals More...
Will Sonia Gandhi be able to Ride the Sympathy Wave if she is Jailed?
Many are of the opinion that if the Narendra Modi government takes a tough stand against the various scams carried out by Sonia Gandhi and her henchmen and women, and if somehow she ends up in jail, she will ride More...
Sad Sardesai, Happy India
I’m writing this in response to Rajdeep Sardesai’s lament that begins with the famous Javed Akhtar song from Silsila…Yeh kahan aa gaye hum…in terms of what a vitriolic atmosphere we have gotten ourselves More...
Where was Nayantara Sahgal when India Actually Needed Her?
When the news about Jawaharlal Nehru’s niece Nayantara Sahgal returning the “prestigious” Sahitya Akademi Award began to trend on Twitter the Twitter handle @AmartyaTalks aptly remarked: I read that Nehru’s More...
Contours of Secular Fear Mongering
When was the last time you read or heard in the mainstream media that in many parts of India Hindus are attacked by Muslims with impunity? Do you know that entire villages in West Bengal and Kerala are burned down More...
Media Hypocrisy over Dadri
What just happened in Dadri is very tragic, if you go by the media reports. A Muslim man was dragged out of his house and lynched by an enraged Hindu mob because he and his family were suspected of eating beef in More...
The Intellectual Road Rage About the Renaming of Aurangzeb Road
In some countries it’s a crime to deny the Holocaust. Holocaust denial is illegal in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Luxembourg, Poland and Romania (referenced from a Quora More...