Rama versus Devi: Battleground Bengal
A narrative which in recent times has gained popularity in media houses like ABP Ananda, Hindustan Times, and Bengali left-liberal “intellectual” circles is that of Rama versus Devi in the context of Bengali politics and identity. Bengali intellectuals and left-liberals wants us to believe that Rama is as alien cult and belongs to “them”, More...
Mr. President, It Is High Time That You Turfed Out the Mamata Regime in Bengal
The President of the Indian Republic must now do something that the country’s conscience enjoins and the Constitution and law demand – dismiss the utterly egregious, venal, violent and subversive state government 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...
The TIME needs to know that times have changed
When one reads the article titled ‘Can the World’s Largest Democracy Endure Another Five Years of a Modi Government?’ published in the American weekly magazine TIME (9 May 2019)[1], one is reminded of More...
Blasphemy of Aasia Bibi: How Pakistan’s Christians went from cheerleaders of Partition to its victims
Pakistani Christian woman Aasia Noreen, who spent nine years on death row after being accused of blasphemy, is a free person at last, but her community is everywhere in chains in Pakistan. Christians, who make up More...
The Oxbridge-Harvard syndrome
Narendra Modi’s somehow well-aimed quip about the contrast between Harvard and hard work crossed my mind while sitting recently at a student café outside the LSE library, the extraordinarily precious access to More...
Controlling Disinformation And Agitprop – Lessons From A Tiny Democratic City State
For most professional Indians, the general perspective on Singapore ranges from the inanely adulatory stance about how nice and well-administered the city-state is (“clinically sterile” is a common phrase), More...
Technology & Ethics: Negotiating with challenges in Modern World
Recently I was invited to deliver a talk at my alma mater, National Institute of Engineering (NIE), Mysuru to a group of students and faculty from the Department of Computer Science on the theme of technology. Having More...
Lesson from Tiananmen Square: Communism is evil but India must reject Western narrative
The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests are often described in the left liberal media as a pro democracy popular movement that was brutally crushed by the Chinese communist government. The student-led protests kicked More...
Auroville: The Dream and the Nightmare
Two articles recently appeared, one in Deccan Chronicle by M.R. Venkatesh, the other on IndiaFacts by Raman Reddy, reviewing a recently published book, Auroville: A Dream Hijacked, by Nirmalya Mukherjee. These three More...