India’s dire contemporary challenges
It seems difficult for observers to abstract from the immediate hurly burly of daily political life and the fascination it evokes to focus on complex long-term processes of historic significance that occur periodically in polities. Contemporary India is an apt example of this predicament, with the unfortunate tendency of commentators preoccupied with More...
Ayodhya: An Ahistorical argument for Ram Temple
“All the towns and villages that lay on their way were the envy of the cities of the gods. The lakes and rivers of the gods lauded those lakes and rivers in which Rama bathed. The tree of paradise gave glory to More...
Westernization, sin and sexuality
As Indian films and television increasingly show sexual content there are plenty of commentators extolling this as progress in catching up with the “sexually liberated” West. But is the West truly sexually liberated? More...
Kashmir Al-Qaeda affiliate promotes medieval Islamic worldviews
The medieval Islamic jurists divided the world into two sharply different categories: ‘Dar-ul-Harb’ (land of war) and ‘Darul Islam’ (abode of Islam). The two exclusivist Islamist terms are synonymous More...
Untruth and Ugliness – The Deities Liberals and Radicals Venerate
“Persephone, like the toads, always rises from the dead…” I find both communists and liberals very disagreeable. I do not like them. This is because, as I sought to argue in an article kindly published by More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – III: Communism and Treason
[contextly_sidebar id=”NCQTSnD7BJZxJRiJvbwSDfQJwkmqFqQP”] When some JNU students raised violent and seditious anti-Indian slogans in the university campus on February 9, 2016, it came as a shock to many More...
Sati and Atrocity Narrative for the Civilizing Mission
[contextly_sidebar id=”nVwJzIXjcxByz4glCwNHbRYD6UR6vGwO”] Colonial accounts of Indian Society created a narrative of “oppression” and justified the White Man’s rule as necessary for civilizing More...
Missionaries and the debate on Sati in Colonial India
[contextly_sidebar id=”eBWL193jr1eqjRNrR0EnysLd8SB4ovcL”] In the popular mind, sati was one of the ills of Hindu society that was abolished by the colonial Government on persistent pressure from British More...
The Battle over Historical Narratives of Chittor
[contextly_sidebar id=”mDZQshST3qurb4vgpvo05XOoITOXaxXs”] Apparently it has become become utterly “regressive”, “backward”, and “reactionary” to be proud of narrating a version of history More...
Why Jesus cannot save the converts
Christian fanatics zealously announce, “Jesus Saves!” In this article, I will decisively argue that Jesus is powerless to save the converts. Let us begin with an understanding of what free will and predestination More...