How Christian missionaries use Dalits and racism to beat Hindu society
One of the ways in which Christian missionary circles bash Hindus is to use the theme of caste oppression as a still-existing form of slavery. Hindu polemicists typically react by highlighting the human-rights More...
Why Smriti Irani needs to introduce Sanskrit on a war footing
For Hindus abroad, depending on circumstances, knowledge of Indian languages is probably lost. In a few places, native languages are perhaps viable, like Hindi in Suriname or Tamil in Singapore. If Hindu families More...
Nationalism as a misstatement of Hindu concerns
Time and again, also after Narendra Modi’s historic election victory, we see a correct pro-Hindu message take an erroneous nationalist turn which detracts from its original pro-Hindu intention. This is precisely More...
Civilizational tasks for the Narendra Modi Government
Introduction Let me start by thanking the many people who have tangibly helped me: with money, hospitality, logistical support, and information. No names here, firstly because it would be unfair to those I forget, More...
My first criticism of Islam
(Rough translation of an article published in Dutch in the digital magazine De Bron, 3 March 2014.) Just a quarter century ago, I published my first article criticizing Islam. It described the history of the death More...
Interreligious dialogue: smokescreen or real utility?
Interreligious dialogue is very fashionable these days. But what achievements does it have to show? Interreligious meetings are ten a penny nowadays. It is obviously better for people to spend their time talking More...
The Ayodhya movement: a trip down memory lane
Romila Thapar, most eminent among India’s eminent historians, protested against the Court verdict acknowledging the historical evidence that the Babar mosque in Ayodhya had been built in forcible replacement More...
Vijay Prashad: secular distortionist par excellence
A Professor of South Asian History at Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut, Vijay Prashad, commented on the India-based French journalist François Gautier. He wrote “Hindu Holocaust?”, published on www.newsindia-times.com More...
Bhagat Singh: an Impartial Assessment
The revolutionary movement was an epic of bravery and self-sacrifice, and this deserves to be celebrated. Indians proved that they were willing to fight and would no longer put up with the ignominy of foreign rule. More...
The Buddha was every Inch a Hindu
Orientalists had started treating Buddhism as a separate religion because they discovered it outside India, without any conspicuous link with India, where Buddhism was not in evidence. At first, they didn’t even More...