Book Review: The Idea of Justice: Amartya Sen
This book review is jointly authored by Saradindu Mukherji and Shoumendu Mukherji. The Nobel laureate in economics makes tremendous use of history, contemporary politics and value systems, with a generous mixing More...
Progressive Distortions in NCERT Class 12 Textbook
In my previous essay, I had examined and pointed out gross distortions in the chapter titled Theme Thirteen: ‘Mahatma Gandhi and the National Movement,’ which is part of the Class XII NCERT history textbook. More...
NCERT Class XII Textbook: A Case Study of Progressive History Writing
Of late, a large section of the Indian media has been going out of the way to flaunt their latest obsession with what normal people would consider non-issues. These large sections of the media seek to project More...
Nehruvian Statecraft meant snooping on Bose Family
As records tumble out of the IB’s almairahs, there is a veritable helter-skelter in the house of the usual suspects. Those guilty have been duly exposed for the unpardonable crime they had committed against the More...
Conformity as History: A review of Ramachandra Guha’s Makers of Modern India
In post-Independent India, conformism to the received wisdom is the key to “glory” in social sciences/historical studies, and deviation leads to guillotine. Ramachandra Guha is fully conscious of this More...
Book Review—Tipu Sultan : The Tyrant of Mysore
Unfortunately, a dominant section of the political establishment in India, inclusive of its preferred set of “progressives” from the worlds of academia, media, culture et al have been engaged in inventing More...
Dispelling the myth of Akbar the Great
Introduction The 15 July 2004 edition of the Ananda Bazar Patrika carried an article ‘Mata binimoyer mukto ganotantroei uttorener path,batlalen Amartya’ (‘Exchange of opinions as practiced in liberal democracy More...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: the promise of a resurgent India
“Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive but to be young was very Heaven,” said William Wordsworth welcoming the fall of the ancient regime in France in 1789. Many of us heard it from Hiren Mukherjee, then an More...
Why Narendra Modi is compared only to Hitler and not Mao
Introduction The critics of Narendra Modi (including foreign governments, related agencies and NRI academics) have long been accusing him of carrying out a “genocide”, a “pogrom”, and being More...