Isvarapranidhana: What is Isvara and what does it mean for me?
Two weeks back I lost my eighty-five-year-old Grandmother who was living with me for the past twenty-five years. Even though her health was deteriorating at a rapid pace and she did not have too much time at hand, the day she perished was indeed difficult. But the subsequent few days were tougher when the void at home was larger than expected. So much More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – V: How Marxism still influences Indian politics
[contextly_sidebar id=”4Q9QxedV6JYsyMAck9CV1hqz2ZaZZimP”] The BJP, a so-called ‘conservative’ and ‘rightist’ party currently dominates the Indian political scene like no party has since Rajiv More...
Winston Churchill: Why the Anglo-American glorification of this monster must stop
Most people in the English speaking world consider Winston Churchill a hero, but the war time British Prime Minister was one of the top mass murderers of the twentieth century. Here are the facts and figures. Mao More...
Periyar’s lies regarding Ramayana
The recent controversy over the vandalism of Periyar’s statue in Vellore, Tamil Nadu has yet again cast the spotlight on his legacy. Erode Venkata Ramasamy, more commonly known as ‘Periyar’ was a social More...
The Uneasy Relationship of JNU and the Indian Nation-State
Let us Revisit 9 February 2016 Dear readers, let us revisit that day a little more than two years ago. On 9 February 2016, a group of students organized an event in Jawaharlal Nehru University. This purportedly More...
Good Lenin or bad Lenin, India needs less Lenin
In 1908 the great Indian nationalist Bal Gangadhar Tilak was arrested for his demand for immediate self rule. He was sentenced to six years in a Burma jail by a British kangaroo court. Days after Tilak’s trial, More...
Stealing Shivaji: Why liberals hate the Hindu emperor but also want to make him secular
In 1925 an Indian revolutionary wrote a letter to Mohandas Gandhi, accusing the Congress leader of stifling India’s freedom movement due to his non-violent approach. The gist of this most interesting letter is More...
Shashi Tharoor Goes Cherry-Picking: Some Reflections on Reading Why I am a Hindu
Human thinking is structured with layers upon layers of cognitive structures. Each word forms a structure that sets limits on a basic concept. On top of that, each concept-cluster that makes up our thoughts is structured, More...
Book Review: Shivaji the Great Maratha by Ranjit Desai
The book is available for purchase from Amazon. I believe that the most important national problem that Indians have to solve is not as such poverty, nor strategic weakness, nor terrorism. Of course these are huge More...
Pragmatic Poets: John Dewey & Rabindranath Tagore
As the turbulent 20th century ended and the next millennium commenced, an analytical catharsis, stimulated by postmodern theories, catalyzed the field of curriculum and instruction. Traditional pedagogical methodologies More...