By Ritika Sharma On Thursday, May 4th, 2017
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Sensible Cinema and Natyashastra

Last few days, cinema lovers have been reading Bahubali 2 movie reviews one after the other. There are few other reasons listed, but most reviews are about this: Bahubali fan reviews are about unapologetic and fantastic More...

By Ritika Sharma On Thursday, March 30th, 2017
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Ayodhya Dispute-II: A Timeline of Events

[contextly_sidebar id=”ytIacg78MWBFbBzpPAqdiRBZ1iYY3Y36″] Between writing Part I and Part II of this series, I came across this article by Deepanjana Pal on a documentary by Anand Patwardhan on Babri-RJB More...

By Ritika Sharma On Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017
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Ayodhya Dispute- I: Fighting Eminent Historians

In the legal fight to reclaim the Ram Janmabhumi in Ayodhya, the discussion on Left Historians is a must. While the perception created is that the participation of these eminences was to add nuance to the subject, More...

By Ritika Sharma On Monday, December 15th, 2014
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The Barguments of the conversion intellectuals

With the conversion, re-conversion debate, raging, it is futile to count how many times the “You can only be born a Hindu, you can’t convert” argument has propped up.To say that the thinking of intellectuals More...

By Ritika Sharma On Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
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Anatomy of a violent Love Jihad

Many thankless Hindus do not give due credit to people like Yogi Adityanath who are leading the crusade against Love Jihad. In addition the grave matter is ridiculed by comparison to inter-religion marriages, without More...

Zakir Naik
By Ritika Sharma On Monday, November 3rd, 2014
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Conversions 101: Zakir Naik as a case study

  Dr Zakir Naik, Indian public speaker on comparative religion and full time Da’ee, in his lecture ‘Da’wah or Destruction’, to motivate the Muslims to do da’wah says: If people tell you to mind your More...