True Hindu greatness
Hindus make bold to be the inheritors of a great and exceptional civilization. And they are.Indeed, a wider recognition of this ancestral greatness would solve a number of contemporary problems Hinduism faces. Separatism, More...
Was Guru Golwalkar a Nazi ?
Guruji’s first book It is routinely alleged in press articles and even in scholarly publications that Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, second sarsanghchalak (“chief guide of the association”) of the More...
Anders Breivik should have read the Brussels Journal
Remember Anders Breivik? The frustrated youth who went on a killing spree in Norway on 22 July 2011 because he felt that the multiculturalists continued to poison public discourse on Islam and decided to vent his More...
Lessons Hindus need to learn from Christianity’s extermination of Paganism
Numerous British and more largely Western neo-Pagans seek contact with Hinduism. They recognize a similarity, both positively and negatively, both in their own religion’s characteristics and in the misfortunes More...
The correct word is Islamophilia, not Islamophobia
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has launched the term “Islamophobia”, which was immediately adopted by the US, the EU, academic bodies like the American Academy of Religion, and then the media and the More...
The definitive Ayodhya chronicle
There are very few publications giving a factual account of historical facts underlying the Ayodhya controversy. Yet this controversy has played a decisive role in recent Indian politics, giving the BJP the electoral More...
An “eminent historian” attacks Arun Shourie
D.N. Jha’s “Reply to Arun Shourie”, dated 3 July 2014, was published in shorter form as “Grist to the reactionary mill”, Indian Express, 9 July 2014. It starts as follows: “I was amused to read ‘How More...
Hindus must reclaim their history
In an opinion piece in Outlook (“Chaining 1200 years”, 7-7-2014), Hasan Suroor takes issue with PM Narendra Modi’s diagnosis that Indians suffer from a slave mentality due to “1200 years” of oppression. More...
EASAS Conference in Zurich: a Report
On 23-26 July 2014, the European Association for South-Asian Studies (EASAS) held its biannual conference in Zürich, Switzerland. More than 150 participants came mostly from the EU and South Asia (including my More...
William Dalrymple’s skewed perspective on the Caliphate
On 13 July 2014, The Guardian published an opinion article by the well-known historian of Moghul India, William Dalrymple: “The ISIS demand for a caliphate is about power, not religion.” We have heard this tune More...