Veer Savarkar: Myths and Truths
Today marks the one thirty second birth anniversary of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, the man who coined the term Hindutva, the much maligned word in Indian socio-political discourse. It has been almost five decades More...
Evangelists dub Yoga a Dark Art
A famous verse of the New testament (from Luke 23:34) goes something like “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Those words were said to be uttered by Jesus when he was More...
De-Marxification of HRD angers lapsed Marxist
There’s one thing that necessarily needs to be said about lapsed Marxists: they never fail to disappoint. And so it goes, in the 20 May edition of the Indian Express where cricket historian and scholar Ramachandra More...
The roots of the discourse on Communalism
In times of communal carnage we see news channels beaming gory images and calling for shrill debates where in most cases less is achieved except straining tonsils. What is otherwise done is the majority is painted More...
Evaluating Ambedkar in the Reformist Tradition
This paper was first published on the National Seminar- New Dalit Agenda for the 21st Century organized jointly by the Indus Research Centre, New Delhi and Ambedkar Chair, IIPA, New Delhi that took place on 12 More...
The Hero’s brutal internment at the Andamans
Read the previous parts here. Senior patriots like Shyamji Krishnaverma, Madam Cama and Bipin Chandra Pal were full of praises for Savarkar’s leadership of the Abhinav Bharat. Even Krishnaverma’s non-Indian More...
Savarkar: Inside the Enemy Camp
As stated in the previous part, Savarkar went to London with a specific purpose—that of knowing the enemy which was the British Empire. But what were his thoughts before reaching London? In those days, travelling More...
Veer Savarkar: The action hero of our freedom struggle
This is the first part of a series on Veer Savarkar, the unsung but largely derided hero of the Indian freedom struggle. Back in 2006, I was very excited as well as fascinated by the action flick V for Vendetta. The More...
Oxford University buckles under leftist pressure
To ban or not to ban is always the question many would raise whenever there is an occasion to give a platform to contrarian individuals. But that is the reason we cherish institutions which take the concept of More...
Mr. Julio Ribeiro, aren’t you an Indian first?
In the 16 March edition of the Indian Express, the well-respected (retired) police officer Julio Ribeiro wrote an alarmist column claiming how he is feeling threatened and alienated as a Christian in his land of More...