India’s dire contemporary challenges
It seems difficult for observers to abstract from the immediate hurly burly of daily political life and the fascination it evokes to focus on complex long-term processes of historic significance that occur periodically More...
Narendra Modi as Metternich
Prime Minister Modi’s diplomacy invites comparison with some of the past greats of the profession. Of all the issues articulated by the BJP election campaign of 2014, diplomacy was not prominent enough to demand More...
Britain betrays its Hindus, Jains and Sikhs
Britain’s Hindus, Sikhs and Jains, its peaceful Dharmic communities, are faced with the worst historic setback they have ever suffered on British soil. The threat of anti-caste judicial activism in Britain and More...
The political economy of demonetisation
Demonetisation was a brave policy to implement and risky. But then serious policy measures entail risk and India’s political culture is normally risk averse. As a result, it allows consequential missteps already More...
Reasserting Indian autonomy against foreign subversion
Weaker subaltern societies of the world are apparently condemned to remain perpetually in the thrall of ideological subterfuges that serve the interests and priorities of powerful foreign societies. Equally, Indian More...
Islamised British Labour Party and its anti-India policies
Indian nationalists and supposed leftists of various hues ignorantly imagine the British Labour party was more sympathetic to them historically. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Labour party always had More...
The Dominant Perspective
The reaction to Fidel Castro’s passing reminded how slickly, if not always unerringly, dominant nations advance their own sordid interests across the world through control of the narrative. Much like the magnificent More...
Culture Wars against Hindus
The foremost source of unrelenting and egregious slander against Hindus is India’s film industry, led by Bollywood. Pakistani marauders were halted at the border in 1948 and repudiated every time subsequently, More...
Contemporary challenges facing Hindu society
Waking up to the sonorous voice of Birendra Krishna Bhadra, reciting the intensely poignant Mahisasuramardini, announcing Mahalaya, is a moment of extraordinary significance for Bengali Hindus. Its memory prompted More...
UK parliament discusses persecution of minorities in Bangladesh
A momentous event took place in the UK parliament, with a discussion of human rights violations of minority communities in Bangladesh, in the presence of a large audience and the attendance of many MPs. One anonymous More...