Who is disrobing Draupadi?
The first edition of Bharat Shakti Pondy Litfest 2018, Puducherry was a special one because it was the first of its kind of festival bringing together some great minds of India and abroad discussing our rich heritage and ideas to understand what Bharat Shakti is. But, personally it was even more special because I got to be a participant for the first More...
Dangerous Liaisons: When your Father is an Urban Naxal
In 1991 my father, a lifelong communist, took me to the holy of holies of the CPM – AKG Centre in Trivandrum. This is literally the Kerala communist’s war room, where senior comrades work, eat, sleep – and More...
Goa – Fun Masks On Tortured Histories
Goa is magical; and more so in the monsoon months when we first visited. The smallest state in the country with the highest per capita income is a jewel in the crown of Indian tourism. For many foreign nationals, More...
How Did Modern Sanitation Lose Its Way?
Abstract: The world is in the throes of a sanitation crisis today with massive amounts of faecal sludge and wastewater from homes, commercial establishments and industries being discharged into rivers and other More...
Barbarika should never be allowed to fight
Recently a naxal sympathizer tweeted, in the context of raids and arrests of Urban Naxals. “Naxal movements have used violence — this is undeniable. But what is often lost in the analysis is this — the More...
The Neuro-Cognitive Science of Itihasa and Purana
The Itihasa and Purana are not just factual history or stories but narratives that cover various aspects of human endeavor. They not just reveal the past but pave way for the future and guide human aspirations. More...
India’s Cow Vigilantism: The other side of the story
Cow-related violence and lynching have been making the media headlines world over in the recent past, especially since the now 4-year old Modi government of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) took office in 2014. What More...
Built Bharat: the Modern Derangement
The India of the 1960s and 1970s which, as was often repeated in public discourse, concentrated mostly in its villages, was already looking to its big cities for inspiration and guidance in matters of style and More...
God, Money and Sex: Child sexual abuse in Church
Close on the heels of the baby trading scandal at the Missionaries of Charity in India, yet another scandal in Australia involving child sexual abuse has claimed the scalp of Adelaide Archbishop – Phillip More...
Hinduism in Digital-Global Power Calculus: View through Prism of Management Theories
Unique to Hinduism is an uncluttered continuity in the face of frequent trials without sacrificing substantial degree of its intrinsic roots. In contrast, China, Japan among others surrendered to Westernization More...