Oh, the intolerance! Where’s the evacuation flotilla?
Once they used to say, “, Look! What wonderful things the Mughals and the British have done for us!” Not now. Now they ask, “What will the Saffron hordes do to us?” In the “us”, they presume to speak More...
Privilege and the Pagan: The road to Tirumala
On privilege Privilege, by definition, is enjoyed by the few over the many; its proponents know and use the power that emanates from it. Regardless of its sources – birth, education, old-wealth, sacerdotal, or More...
(South) Asians? Who? Us? – Astitva and Asmita
It has been another typical fortnight. Whilst the Indian Space Research Organization ISRO successfully launched its first ever “Made in India” space shuttle, the Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV-TD), , scholars, More...
Lords Of The Lies
The oldest and the largest democracies in the world have a strange relationship. No sooner does anyone think that there could be a fruitful partnership between equals, the old bogey of the White Man’s Burden rears More...
Hinduism is the Last Hope for World Peace
Intolerance has been in the news these past several months, from a pontificating president who bowed to religious despots in their backyard the very day after lecturing the democratic unwashed untermensche of India More...
The Spirit of Shambo (2007) Lives on: The Bull about Beef and a Metaphor for Dharmic Ethics
(Some events within this piece are a flashback – they occurred in July 2007. They are a TRUE dialogue based exclusively on an e-mail conversation between two friends, VC = a dear friend, Vijay a lifelong Vegetarian More...
The BBC and its chums stress out over Yoga
One just can’t make this up! If money–grubbing rip-off merchants like the trendy lowlives in Europe and the USA who make a fortune out of Yoga or even a cool hippie or Hilary Clinton were to run a Yoga More...
Pseudo-Secularism UK Style: Lessons for and from India
Whilst India’s brave soldiers are working round the clock saving the lives of flood victims in the Kashmir valley and surrounding areas, the rabid elements of pseudo-secularism keep barking in the gullies of England More...
How a chaiwallah enabled a Kutch villager’s vision for India
On our return from the Safed Rann (White Desert) back to Ahmedabad, we stopped by at Dhaaneti, an ordinary Kutchhi village off the Bhuj-Bhachau highway, made up of a few hundred well maintained homes set in narrow More...
Open letter to Ed Miliband
Dear Ed, Your prolonged silence on the little matter of the Indian elections compels me to write to you. It may have passed you by, or you may have been holed out in a cave with best friends, so you missed the More...