The Truth and the Humbug in Greta Thunberg’s Climate Change Speech
Let me first clear what I am not going to talk about in this article. Yes, Greta Thunberg was creepingly melodramatic. Yes, she read from a script and yes, she is a whimper without a script. Yes, the emotion that More...
The Making of Early Kashmir – The Making of a New Literary Star
The Making of Early Kashmir: Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini by Shonaleeka Kaul is available for purchase on Amazon. Sanskrit, the most defining characteristic of Indic civilization, is not just a language. More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – V: How Marxism still influences Indian politics
[contextly_sidebar id=”4Q9QxedV6JYsyMAck9CV1hqz2ZaZZimP”] The BJP, a so-called ‘conservative’ and ‘rightist’ party currently dominates the Indian political scene like no party has since Rajiv More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – IV: Was Indira Gandhi a Soviet Agent?
[contextly_sidebar id=”5XTV0Kq2F9EXRdFa3X8RXAUIEGhyCyaL”] In 2005, an otherwise dry academic book called The Mitrokhin Archive, about the activities of the KGB in Third World countries, created an unlikely More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – III: Communism and Treason
[contextly_sidebar id=”NCQTSnD7BJZxJRiJvbwSDfQJwkmqFqQP”] When some JNU students raised violent and seditious anti-Indian slogans in the university campus on February 9, 2016, it came as a shock to many More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – II: How Communism Killed Freedom of Expression
[contextly_sidebar id=”04eH5RW1NiqXTdyyPwZA3co6BM4B1J8X”] In 2015, one and a half years after Narendra Modi led NDA came to rule the Centre with a thumping majority, a horde of so-called artists, authors More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – I: Is Communism Compatible with Democracy?
[contextly_sidebar id=”C4rLgLM8a8l83BoV4c4KjaSUizS5r3fc”] Hundred years ago, on 7th November, 1917, [1] a revolution took place in Europe which changed the fate of entire mankind. It was the Russian More...
Teaching And Research – The Rot That Has Set In
Recently HRD Minister Prakash Javdekar stoked a controversy by saying that college teachers and professors would no longer be ‘assessed on research for promotion’. He said that they would be assessed ‘mainly More...
The Story Of A Priest
[contextly_sidebar id=”Oge4EnFOJ3Y7LFWOkaT4jyReNuQEwM6E”] A Heritage Temple Prashant S. Bhardwaj is the head priest of the Veera Narayana Temple, Belavadi. The Veera Narayana Temple is dedicated to Veera More...
Many Meanings Of The Hindu Temple
[contextly_sidebar id=”dgtuSBRGt24vaLhwYoX5H2IWKoznH01R”] The Hindu temple like all other Hindu objects is symbolic, symbolizing the most refined knowledge that the ancient saints of India had codified. More...