Sabarimala Verdict – Fabricated Rights over Real Experiences of Women
“Experience is the only source of knowledge. Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth, until we experience it ourselves.” – Swami Vivekananda Every argument on the Sabarimala temple and its restriction on women in the menstruating age has been heard. Except one. The More...
Why do Indian Writers Love an Ugly India?
In pre-independence times, American author Katherine Mayo happened to visit India and wrote uncharitably about the country, particularly about the unhygienic surroundings in her book Mother India. When Mahatma Gandhi More...
Defining Urban Naxal: A Tribute to Prof. Romila Thapar
The current debate revolving around “urban naxals” received a heightened attention owing to the following statement by Prof. Romila Thapar, an eminent historian. “We were all born Indians, lived as Indians More...
Book Review: Reshaping Art by T.M. Krishna
Reshaping Art by T.M. Krishna Publisher: Aleph Book Company, 2018 | ISBN 978-93-86021-97-7 The Karnatik music artist Thodur Madabusi Krishna, popularly known as T.M. Krishna (TMK), has been in the news for reasons More...
Theater in Ancient India and Greece – In Comparison with the Modern Times
As much as society loves art, it ignores its artists. Ask any artist and here I use the word artist in a wider sense, and she’ll tell you how impossible it is to pay bills doing art. For theater/film makers there More...
Wendy, Hinduism and Cow
Recently, I chanced to read an article authored by Wendy Doniger, distinguished Professor at the University of Chicago, USA, about Hinduism and its cow history[1]. Wendy is known for her controversial position about More...
The Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), 2010 – A Primer
Introduction There has been a long tradition of non-profit organizations in India, known as Non-Government Organizations (henceforth referred to in this paper as NGOs) accepting financial contributions from entities More...
Should Hindus Be Offended at the Republican Party Ad Featuring Lord Ganesha?
On the occasion of Ganesha Chaturthi, celebrations of which festival concluded just a week ago, the Fort Bend County (Texas) branch of the Republican Party in the USA had published a rather cheeky advertisement More...
Anti-Statism in the Indian Media and Academia: An Investigation of Sources
What is ‘anti-statism’? What do I mean by ‘anti-statism’? It usually is defined as an intense dislike for any form of intrusion by the state into any aspect of human existence – social, economic, or personal. More...
Carnatic music: Fighting the Hijack
A recent statement by a group of activists, writers, and some artists, speciously titled “reclaiming our heritage,” purports to defend freedom of speech and artistic expression in the context of the recent flap More...