Tunku Varadarajan’s Idolatory
India’s self-proclaimed secular intellectuals and mediapersons make the best use of every opportunity to deride Hinduism. Neither is this specific to India alone. Those secular writers who migrate out take their More...
Ashish Khetan equates Islamic Jihad with Hindutva
One of the oldest tricks in the textbook of India’s self-proclaimed secularists is to blame pro-Hindu forces for terrorist attacks carried out by Islamic jihadists. This trick aims at achieving two objectives. More...
Salil Tripathi Wants no Heroes
Ordinary men rise to become heroes because of the ideals and values they espouse. And heroes are seldom remembered for their looks, skin tone or other facets of their physical personality. Heroes are remembered More...
The Myth of Hyderabad’s “Hidden Massacre”
BBC correspondent Mike Thompson in a recent article on the annexation of Hyderabad claims that in September-October 1948—that is, soon after its annexation—tens of thousands of Muslims were butchered in Hyderabad. More...
Tracing India’s Constitutional History: 3
The Shrutis and the Smritis broadly make up India’s ancient legal literature. While the Shrutis laid down certain broad principles which were later developed into law, the Smritis specifically dealt with civil More...
The Communal Violence Bill is not community specific: Rahman Khan
Assertion: Minority Affairs Minister Mr. Rahman Khan, while speaking on the controversial Communal Violence Bill, told reporters that the Bill is not specific to any community: I do not see why it should be opposed More...
Tracing India’s Constitutional History: Part 2
In the last part, we understood that Dharma was the supreme authority and even the king was subservient to the dictates of Dharma. However, in most circumstances, the king did not have any legislative powers and More...
Sagarika Ghose wants to Rewrite the Purusha Sukta
Noted Indian journalist and TV news anchor Sagarika Ghose in her blog, Bloody Mary, asserts that caste-system in India is not just a social arrangement, but a hierarchical system that is sanctified by Hinduism itself. More...
Tracing India’s Constitutional History: Part 1
Introduction Most people, including many law students in India are under the impression that modern constitutional jurisprudence evolved in India only with the advent of the British. While most of our textbooks More...
The Mylapore St. Thomas myth that doesn’t seem to die: Part 2
Read Part 1 here. What stood on the place the church presently stands? And so, it was pretty clear to me that the St. Thomas coming to India story is a myth. But that doesn’t answer the question of what originally More...