Congress, A Cult Without A Moral Compass
The conduct of the Congressmen during the National Herald court hearings show that they see themselves as servants of the Gandhi family and friends instead of servants of the nation. It is money over morality. Watergate More...
Congress Was Never National
The Congress party that was founded by an Englishman may be ended by an Italian woman. It has always looked to foreigners and foreign sources for inspiration. Recent election results show that this ploy of projecting More...
Nehru’s India: A Country That Is Not A Nation
Democracy in a New Nation In 1831, a twenty-six year old French nobleman by name Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville landed in America carrying a commission from the French monarch Louis-Philippe (of the More...
Nehru As Seen By A Hindu Nationalist
Intellectual Warrior of Post-Nehruvian India The late Sita Ram Goel, historian, thinker and creator of the publishing houses, Voice of India and Aditya Prakashan was a fighter par excellence for nationalist causes More...
Revisiting a Classic—The Calcutta Quran Petition: Book Review
Background The average educated person today, anywhere in the world, is likely to be both confused and frightened by Islam. On the one hand, it is supposed to be a religion of peace that preaches equality and justice More...
Mystery Behind the Netaji Mystery
The real mystery is who concocted the story of Netaji’s death in plane crash that never took place and then tried to cover up the truth for 70 years. By releasing the files relating to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, More...
Moving Away from Macaulayite Education
The fact that both English education and the mindless premium placed on the English language in India is at the root of several important problems faced by India since Independence is a given. However, I am not More...
Decolonizing the Humanities
Humanities are the foundation of any society. National leaders and thinkers must be schooled in the humanities, with deep roots in the nation and the society they seek to lead. And Indian humanities have deep spiritual More...
Aurangzeb Road: Symptom of a Deeper Malaise
The Congress has always been a party held together by a personality—first by Mohandas Gandhi, later Nehru, and now Sonia Gandhi. It is inevitable therefore that force of personality rather than concerns of national More...
Vedanta sees clash of Values,not Civilizations
‘Vedanta sees no conflict between material needs and spiritualitybut a balance between the two. What it sees is a clash of values rather than a clash of civilizations. This can be useful for understanding More...