Reimagining Education in New India
The huge middleclass India of today is not satisfied with a fractured idea of India, an India whose past is inglorious, an India which has to negate its core values to accommodate the sensitivities of minority communities. More...
Sabarimala – A Tark Vitark
The Sabarimala imbroglio has been framed as a gender discrimination issue. The side in favour of lifting restriction presents this as a clash between modern values and traditional patriarchy. My contention is that More...
The Untold Story of India’s Partition
It was by sheer chance that Narendra Singh Sarila came across certain documents which revealed that the partition of India was linked to the great game being played between Britain and the USSR at the time. Without More...
Indian Culture & History: Whose Narrative Should It Be- 4
[contextly_sidebar id=”FAmh6weC1d8LxuA52sabhriXmuo5CX5q”] What makes Indian culture and history unique is the multiplicity of conflicting narratives that it is made up of. From those emerging from the More...
Indian Culture & History: Whose Narrative Should It Be- 3
[contextly_sidebar id=”5XSpl0cxDCsgE1p0g0dkR7I5AcS0QtNq”] In part 1 and 2 of this four-part series we discussed the views emerging from the Indian and foreign gaze respectively. The Indian gaze comprises More...
Indian Culture & History: Whose Narrative Should It Be- 2
[contextly_sidebar id=”cehr5yAKWI4dX2h76yWEGL5QqxyDyCEZ”] In Part 1, I discussed the Indigenous and Ambedkar’s views of our culture and history. The Indigenous view covered how the sages viewed our More...
Indian Culture & History: Whose Narrative Should It Be-1
Like the story of the proverbial blind men and the elephant, India’s cultural history too has many narratives. Each is different and given to fierce debate. Most of us hold on to one point of view without having More...