No country for dead men: World War I and India’s collective amnesia
World War I ended a hundred years ago. The four-year global conflict ended on November 11, 2018 after more than 10 million soldiers died – exactly 74,187 of these were Indians. (1) Thrown into a meat grinder by More...
Message to Twitter CEO: About Brahmins, you don’t know jack
When Jack Dorsey held up a poster screaming “Smash Brahminical Patriarchy” was he played by Indian leftists and crypto Christians masquerading as liberals? Or was it an expression of the Twitter CEO’s own More...
Battle of Longewala: Every man was a hero
The place: Longewala, Rajasthan, 16 km from the Pakistan border. The time: The night of December 4, 1971. A reconnaissance platoon led by Lt. Dharamveer Singh of the 23rd Battalion of the Punjab Regiment detects More...
Towering resentment: Why the British are sulking over the Statue of Unity
It is peculiar that when something good comes out of India, sections of British society start carping about India’s poverty. No other country is as obsessed with India’s poor as Britain (although it is a notable More...
Dangerous Liaisons: When your Father is an Urban Naxal
In 1991 my father, a lifelong communist, took me to the holy of holies of the CPM – AKG Centre in Trivandrum. This is literally the Kerala communist’s war room, where senior comrades work, eat, sleep – and More...
Partition: Why Britain created Pakistan
In May 1945 as people across the planet celebrated the end of World War II in Europe, one baleful figure was planning the annihilation of the world’s oldest continuing civilisation. His heart full of hatred for More...
Checkmating Christianity: What India Can Learn From Japan
The defining takeaway from the episode of thousands of infant children being sold by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity is that there is no love in the ‘Religion of Love’. Christianity has become a business More...
The Indian chattering class and their Imran Khan syndrome
Back in the 1970s and 1980s when the Pakistani cricket team toured India the five-day matches seemed even more drawn out and dreary than usual as both teams, not wanting to lose, played it safe. Those seeking some More...
Why Britain is the most unsafe country for India
Any survey on India that is done in the West should be taken with a healthy dose of scepticism. Specifically, if the surveyor is a British organisation such as the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the report is likely More...
Alexander vs Porus: Beyond the fog of war
[contextly_sidebar id=”CK1TsqwfjDcBsM01KTFyNX10EeAGtg22″] After defeating Persia in the year 334 BCE, Alexander of Macedon was irresistibly drawn towards the great Indian landmass. However, the Persians More...