That Bogey called ‘Brahminism’
Blame it on the Brahmin Many readers might remember this poster that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was photographed holding while attending an event in our country – it carried the illustration of a young girl and More...
Why the Left Does Not Comprehend the Indian ‘Felt Community’
Some Theorists of the Nation and Nationalism How do nations emerge? What factors give rise to nationalisms? There is a considerable amount of theoretical literature on these issues and it is not possible to More...
JNU, the Headquarters of the Breaking India Enterprise
Understanding the Breaking India Enterprise We owe the phrase ‘breaking India’ to that wonderfully insightful book co-authored by Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan (Breaking India: Western Interventions More...
The Origins of Cultural Marxism: A Concise Account
Marxism and ‘Cultural Marxism’ What is Marxism? Let us say that it is an interpretation of history provided by Karl Marx that inspires a particular kind of politics. As an interpretation of history Marxism is More...
Ambedkar’s Thoughts on Indian Muslim Society and Politics
Mingling the Incompatibles: A Curious Attempt at Islamist ‘Ambedkarism’ It was last year when I was strolling about on the campus of my alma mater – Jawaharlal Nehru University – immediately before or after More...
Book Review: Western Foundations of the Caste System
Western Foundations of the Caste System by Martin Fárek, Dunkin Jalki, Sufiya Pathan, and Prakash Shah has been published by Palgrave Macmillan and is available on Amazon. The Origins of Caste: An Overview of More...
Brahman – A Poem by Rabindranath Tagore
Editor’s Note: This beautiful poem is based on the idea of varna being a matter of spiritual inclination rather than birth. It narrates the encounter between knowledge seeking Satyakam and sage Gautama contained More...
Anti-Statism in the Indian Media and Academia: An Investigation of Sources
What is ‘anti-statism’? What do I mean by ‘anti-statism’? It usually is defined as an intense dislike for any form of intrusion by the state into any aspect of human existence – social, economic, or personal. More...
Nehru and Dharma: A Case of Cultural Unease
Indians, as a Rule, are a Reserved People We Indians love to talk, don’t we? I think, if there is anything we like more than a cliffhanger of a cricket match, preferably involving India, it is a good conversation. More...
A Nineteenth Century Prehistory of Pakistan
Hostile Attitude of the Mahommedans…Pronounced and Apparent In the year 1885, certain politically minded upper middle class urban professionals, led by an Irish civil servant called Allan Octavian Hume (1829-1912), More...