Padmavat: Jauhar, Rights, Liberty and Values
In a recent article by Swara Bhaskar “At The End of Your Magnum Opus… I Felt Reduced to a Vagina – Only”, she criticizes the act of Jauhar and terms it disgraceful and against women rights. She casts doubt on the traditional belief that Jauhar is an act of courage and instead views the custom as a violation of women rights and liberty. She also More...
Wrecking Machine: When the Pagan Mongols Nearly Wiped Out Islam
There is a clear polarization among Hindus and Muslims when it comes to the history of Muslim rule in India. It doesn’t matter how barbaric a Muslim ruler was, in the eye of the Muslim he had some redeeming qualities. More...
What’s Love Gotta Do with it? Valentine’s Day & Fringe Groups’ Agenda
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live. – Victor Hugo When it comes to the talking about love no other country More...
Hinduism vs Hindutva: What is the debate about
Shashi Tharoor is an erudite author and his English prose is eminently readable. He generally makes sense in his views and opinions on many issues, in spite of being a Congress politician. But his recent book “Why More...
Yoga as the Colonized Subject
Within the serene, spare yoga studios across Europe and America, Yoga has become so assimilated into everyday language and activity, that to the predominantly Caucasian practitioners, the idea that violence and More...
Padman – The Real Story of How He Shot to Fame by Selling Shame
“If we want to give our daughters Sanitary Pads, we’d much rather buy the good quality ones available in the market. What do you think we are…….trying to get rid of some cheap stuff by dumping it on our More...
Cordel Church Scam: Judicial Corruption
In our earlier report “Cordel Church Scam: Another Can of Worms?” dated 28th of April 2017, we had exposed a mega scam from Cordel Church, Mangaluru, Karnataka, which had shaken the conscience of the Christian More...
That 7-Page letter goofed up your case, Your Honour
The mutiny of four Supreme Court judges in New Delhi on Friday, 12th January 2018 is already history now. But a group of four senior Supreme Court judges speaking to the media about the adversarial contents of their More...
Judgement Day: Tales From The Judicial Chambers
Sometime in the year 1997, Metropolitan Magistrate Santushti Chauhan (name changed) committed an act that will forever be a blot on her mostly exemplary career. Arriving for work around 8.30am at Delhi’s Tis Hazari More...
Why And How Fake News Is Created
The “unnamed high-level source” is the bread and butter of the media worldwide. For India’s pre-paid and post-paid journalists, the source – often fictitious – is oxygen itself. Scan the daily papers and More...