Look into the mirror yourself Mr.Patel
In the 19 October edition of TOI, the ever-erudite Aakar Patel, gave us the most important criterion a leader should have in order to be elected. Check: Integrity Fail Check: Articulation Fail Check: Confidence Fail Check: More...
Kancha Ilaiah the time-traveler
On 22 September Kancha Ilaiah wrote an op-ed in the Asian Age sharing his ‘wisdom’ regarding the controversial phenomenon of Love Jihad. As is the case with most self-proclaimed progressives in India, Mr.Ilaiah More...
West Bengal Becoming Jihadi Bengal under Didi
During the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, India was among the few nations that gave support to the freedom fighters of what was then East Pakistan, going as far as providing asylum to the bulk of the pro-Independence More...
A Manifesto Against Freethoughts’ Manifesto
On 7 October, the well-known blog ‘freethoughtblogs.com’ published what they called a “Manifesto for Secularism.” Let us examine in some depth, the key points of this so-called manifesto: Our era is marked More...
Dear New York Times: Look into your own backyard first
On 8 October, the New York Times published what can only be called a motivated piece declaring that the BJP government will use education to promote the ideology of Hindutva. Like most cases, this piece is a classic More...
Nikhil Wagle’s scientific temper explained
More than a week ago when the nation was celebrating the success of the Mangalayan project, senior journalist Nikhil Wagle tweeted thus: The most obvious first question: is it a crime for scientists to visit temples More...
Hartosh Bal’s Caravan to Oblivion
In the 1 October 2014 issue of Caravan magazine, journalist Hartosh Singh Bal repeated the now-jaded caution of how the victory of the Narendra Modi-led BJP in the 2014 elections has paved the way for the “fascist” More...
Dear Sujit Saraf: Indians did not always believe White to be Right
In a piece published on 8 September in the Times Of India, but highlighted recently following Modi’s visit to the United States, a Bay Area based IT official and playwright Sujit Saraf claimed ”In his heart, More...
In which Pankaj Mishra defends racists
Livemint on 30 September published this op-ed by Pankaj Mishra, which warns how the Americans are falling for a dangerous cliché known as Narendra Modi. Let there be no mistake: this is your usual anti-Modi article. More...
The Economist needs to be renamed “The Racist”
On 29 September, the famed The Economist published a piece, which established what millions of Indians constantly suspected: it was racist. During the 2014 Lok Sabha poll campaign, the Economist had taken the More...