Book Review: The Zero-Cost Mission and The Wily Agent
Stories about spies, intelligence agencies and covert operations always make for a captivating read. Probably because it’s seldom that any information trickles down from this arcane yet fascinating world of intelligence services. Quite often intelligence officers and sleuths create myths about themselves and weave fictional stories around their operations, More...
Checkmating Christianity: What India Can Learn From Japan
The defining takeaway from the episode of thousands of infant children being sold by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity is that there is no love in the ‘Religion of Love’. Christianity has become a business More...
Is Prakṛti Prejudiced?
We often forget that, the universe, the very creator and creation all encompassing, is the one and only master we have. It is through the manifestation of its energy that it controls everything in this world from More...
Nehru and Dharma: A Case of Cultural Unease
Indians, as a Rule, are a Reserved People We Indians love to talk, don’t we? I think, if there is anything we like more than a cliffhanger of a cricket match, preferably involving India, it is a good conversation. More...
The Indian chattering class and their Imran Khan syndrome
Back in the 1970s and 1980s when the Pakistani cricket team toured India the five-day matches seemed even more drawn out and dreary than usual as both teams, not wanting to lose, played it safe. Those seeking some More...
Book Review: Creating A New Medina by Venkat Dhulipala
Creating A New Medina by Venkat Dhulipala is available on Amazon for purchase. Partition of India is one of the saddest parts of Indian History and Freedom movement. Some claim that the idea of Pakistan was just More...
On the idea of United Bengal under Islam: The panic stricken past
Dedicated to those who are still drowned in the nostalgic and romantic idea of a common Bengali nation. When India and consequently Bengal was on the eve of partition in 1947, the now infamous riot architect Shuhrawardy More...
Surya Sen- The Hero of Chittgong
Revolutions all over the world have been a binding force behind the transformations and metamorphosis of societies. There have been myriad examples in the histories across the world that the undercurrents of changes More...
High Jinks That May Cause A Cabal To Collapse
History is replete with examples like the one that India saw on TV on the evening of Friday, the 20th July, when Rahul Gandhi, in a bizarre (almost macabre) display of immaturity tried to pull a fast one on Prime More...
Externment from Hyderabad of Swami Paripoornananda is grave injustice upon Hindus: Dr. Omendra Ratnu
On Wednesday, Swami Paripoornananda was externed from Hyderabad for six months after being kept under house arrest for two days. The Swamiji is a renowned Hindu sadhu and leader in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, More...