A maharathi without a rath: the meaning of being Koenraad Elst
Koenraad Elst has coined two evocative terms to help understand Indian socio-political situation: ‘Negationism in India’ and ‘Decolonizing the Hindu mind’. These are also the names of his two most important More...
Distortion of the Articles 25-31
The Constitution of a country is the basic document for governing the country. However, if for any reason, some Articles or concept therein get distorted, and continue for decades; the distortion becomes the standard More...
कौन अधिक हानिकारक? जाली, विकृत या राजनीति-प्रेरित समाचार?
जाली समाचार देने के विरुद्ध सूचना व प्रसारण मंत्री की पहलकदमी उठते ही दब गई। कुछ More...
The American blunder: Will the West correct its response to Islamist threat?
Sixty years ago, the Soviet Communism was a threat to the free, democratic countries across the world. Communist leaders had great faith in what they called ‘science’ of Marxism-Leninism and were firm in belief More...
Fifty Different Tellings of the Quran
In the recent cacophony on ‘intolerance,’ many left-wing writers, journalists and intellectuals routinely mentioned the A K Ramanujan article ‘Three hundred Ramayanas’. To them, its removal from the Delhi More...
The World of Wendy Doniger’s Translations
“Aldous Huxley once said that an intellectual was someone who had found something more interesting than sex; in Indology, an intellectual need not make that choice at all.” – Wendy Doniger, When the Lingam More...