Lessons from India’s wars: Hindus need a new Dharma Yuddha
One of the earliest recorded attacks on India was by queen Semiramis, (1) who ruled the Assyrian Empire during the years 811-806 BCE – or nearly 500 years before the invasion of Alexander of Macedon. According to the accounts of ancient Greek historians Diodorus and Ctesias, the warrior queen “resolved to subjugate the Indians on hearing that they More...
Brahmanical Patriarchy: Does it exist?- I
Brahmanical Patriarchy has been in the news, with an endorsement from a coterie of women journalists and no less than the ignorant Jack Dorsey of Twitter. The supporters of this concept have referred repetitively More...
Population Control Law: How wrong premises lead to wrong conclusions
Is earth overpopulated? Are we going to run out of resources to feed and clothe everyone? Since the end of the 18th century, this topic has been hotly debated by scholars all around the globe. The doom scenario More...
No country for dead men: World War I and India’s collective amnesia
World War I ended a hundred years ago. The four-year global conflict ended on November 11, 2018 after more than 10 million soldiers died – exactly 74,187 of these were Indians. (1) Thrown into a meat grinder by More...
Battle of Longewala: Every man was a hero
The place: Longewala, Rajasthan, 16 km from the Pakistan border. The time: The night of December 4, 1971. A reconnaissance platoon led by Lt. Dharamveer Singh of the 23rd Battalion of the Punjab Regiment detects More...
Towering resentment: Why the British are sulking over the Statue of Unity
It is peculiar that when something good comes out of India, sections of British society start carping about India’s poverty. No other country is as obsessed with India’s poor as Britain (although it is a notable More...
MeToo Movement and its Contradictions
MeToo movement in India has been celebrated in mainstream media as a defining moment in the history of women in general and the shared experience of Indian women in particular. While being sympathetic to many such More...
The imperative of decolonizing Indian education
Seemingly mindless Hindi movies often drop, albeit unknowingly, pearls of wisdom and offer insights into the working of society. While watching one such experiment titled Yamla, Pagla, Deewana, I came across a typical More...
The Shocking History of Amnesty International
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has raided Amnesty International’s Bangalore office. While Amnesty claims that this is an attack on their freedom, media is reporting that the raids are due to Amnesty violating More...
Could Samskara be an answer to #MeToo?
Of late, several personalities from the world of media, comedy, film and journalism have been outed on social media with the hashtag #MeToo for their atrocious behavior towards women[1]. This recent exposé is not More...