How India Can Thwart Pakistan’s Kartarpur Gambit
For Pakistan, the opening of the Kartarpur corridor is a strategic win. Reluctantly but consciously, India has succumbed to the pressure by Pakistan to open the border and operationalize a channel to allow Pakistan More...
Language – Transcending the Political Space
In the rest of the world language disputes have mostly disappeared, but in South Asia acrimony over language still erupts from time to time. Current fashionable discourse on the problematics of language use (both More...
Looking Back At Linguistic Prejudice Against ‘Hindi Medium’ Prime Minister Modi
Note to the readers: On 26 May 2017, the third anniversary of the Modi Government, PM Modi was in Assam where he inaugurated India’s longest bridge and also laid the foundation for an AIIMS and an AIRI for the More...
L’Affaire Azaan and Noise Pollution in India
Superstar Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam’s recent volley of tweets expressing his annoyance over being woken up by azaan, the Islamic call to prayer that is broadcast from mosques, on loudspeakers, five times a day, More...
Is NGT panel’s attack on AOL rooted in Secularist malice and mediocrity?
The National Green Tribunal’s assessment that the World Cultural Festival conducted by the Art of Living Foundation in March has resulted in the “complete destruction” of the Yamuna floodplains is steeped More...
The Orlando Carnage: Terrorism or Hate Crime?
The Orlando terrorist attack was a terrible tragedy. Innocent gay people were slaughtered by a bisexual Muslim male in America’s biggest shooting massacre in history, and now the blame game is well underway, both More...
Demographic Changes: Is Bengal Sitting On A Volcano?
Demographic changes in West Bengal and Assam have actually been going on for years. Mass infiltration and settlement of Bangladeshi Muslims coming in search of lebensraum into these regions had been taking place More...
Is Pakistan Embracing Its Indic Roots?
Since its formation Pakistan has been working hard to separate itself from its Indic roots. Some recent events augur a small beginning towards a new trend, Pakistan returning to the idea of Vasudaiva Kutumbhakam More...
The New Delhi World Culture Festival and the Legacy of the American Civil Rights Movement
New Delhi will be hosting a momentous event from March 11-13th, the World Culture Festival. In the words of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the moving force behind the festival: “We are inspired to continue with more More...
Why India Should Honor Taslima Nasrin
In her article “The Role of the Writer,” Maryse Condé, the famous writer from the French speaking island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, shares an interesting memory from her childhood. When she was about seven More...