Dalrymple’s Anarchy- II: Hit and Miss
Earlier we covered why we should reject the idea that the East India Company was just a company that needed better regulation. Once it is understood that it was not “just a humble company” then phrases such More...
Dalrymple’s Anarchy-I: Below Expectations
A few years ago, this writer was travelling through Zimbabwe and happened to meet a European in his mid-twenties, who had just come in from Angola. Soon the topic veered into how his country Portugal had ruled More...
Faith or Fanaticism?
Understanding Islam through Hadis: Religious faith or fanaticism? Ram Swarup, Voice of India, 1983 You have probably seen the meme that has been floating around recently in social media, which goes something More...
Moronic Inferno featuring Pankaj Mishra
In the build-up to the Lok Sabha 2019 elections, a number of foreign news outlets had written scathingly about India, and especially it’s PM Narendra Modi. Aatish Tasseer’s “Divider in Chief” cover for Time, More...
Gandhi As He Really Was: The Empire Loyalist
2019 is the year the world celebrates the 150th birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. A question does need to be asked: do the common people of the world really know this “man of peace”? First, let More...
Imperialism’s Hindu Liberals: The Legacy that Remains
The British may have left behind a violently splintered India in 1947, and the Portuguese were finally evicted in 1961, but their “rich legacy” remains. Foreign rule in India has included a foisted narrative More...