India’s 9/11 began centuries ago
One should respect Ayman Muhammad Rabi al-Zawahiri’s perfect sense of timing. On 3 September 2014, the long-time second-in-command and present head of the dreaded terror organization Al-Qaeda, announced the formation More...
State of intellectuals in Contemporary India-Part 3
Joseph Goebbels who was the chief propagandist of the German Nationalist Socialist Party, once famously said: If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. Fortunately More...
State of intellectuals in Contemporary India-Part 2
Ever since India attained independence, public discourse in scholarly matters has largely been dominated by the leftists because they were successful in obtaining the necessary financial, institutional as well More...
CNN-IBN tries hard to deny the reality of Love Jihad
In what seems to be a stark warning, the piece titled ‘Love Jihad’ and religious conversion polarise in Modi’s India which appeared on the IBN website paints the picture of a religiously polarized More...
State of intellectuals in Contemporary India
Who is an intellectual? The renowned economist Fredrick Hayek defined intellectuals as persons who transmit the ideas of specialized scientists to the general population.This definition included “journalists, More...
Nalanda University is ailing at childbirth
September 1 2014 was a day of pride for the people of India, and specifically the people of Bihar as the Nalanda University, once an ancient international centre for learning, finally started functioning eight centuries More...
Bipan Chandra: When Party Line becomes History
It is wise and polite to follow the adage De mortuis nil nisi bonum meaning, “of the dead speak only good.” I believe that is the reason fulsome praises were heaped upon historian Bipan Chandra who passed away More...
Debunking Hartosh Singh Bal’s Sikhism
Following RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statement that ‘all Indians are Hindus’, several famous secularists gave the expected response – ‘this is an attempt to impose majoritarian views on India’s minorities.’ More...
Attention Ajaz Ashraf: your “Hindu” guide doesn’t quite cut it
The article titled Attention Bhagwat, Swaraj et al: Here’s a guide to your favourite word ‘Hindu’(dated 26 August 2014) which appeared on Firstpost, was supposed to counter the recent statements More...
Remembering a forgotten saint: Srimanta Sankardev
Often when we talk of national integration and unity, there are voices which state that it is incorrect to assume that India is one nation. The reason given is many residents of certain states may feel themselves More...