John R Searle’s The Mystery of Consciousness: A Summary with some Indian Perspectives
The Mystery of Consciousness by John Searle is available for purchase in Amazon. ‘Consciousness’ was in the ambit of philosophy and not good science earlier. As a mark of changing times, mainstream scientists have now joined philosophers in exploring consciousness. Consciousness however is a hard nut to crack. John Searle, an eminent philosopher More...
Is Farooq now down with Dementia?
Has Farooq Abdullah gone bonkers? Having reportedly undergone a kidney transplant two years ago, does he now need a brain transplant as well? Or is the three-time chief minister of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) More...
Who is Culpable in the 1947 genocide?
Official estimates downplay the toll of civilians who were killed or raped during the orgy of riots which accompanied the partition of India and creation of Pakistan in 1947. Probably, anywhere between one and two More...
The Ignorance Within: How Hindutva Plutocrats are weakening the Intellectual Battle for Hindu Survival
Sri Ashok Chowgule, a businessman with shipping and other interests and sometime Working President of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), has written a long response in Swarajya to my recent analysis of why Hindus More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – II: How Communism Killed Freedom of Expression
[contextly_sidebar id=”04eH5RW1NiqXTdyyPwZA3co6BM4B1J8X”] In 2015, one and a half years after Narendra Modi led NDA came to rule the Centre with a thumping majority, a horde of so-called artists, authors More...
The Ineptitude of the Post-Colonials: A response to Dr. Shalini Sharma
Dear Dr. Shalini Sharma, Your article ‘Hindutva and historical revisionism’ has been described as an “excellent piece” by Dr. Priyamvada Gopal, Reader in Anglophone and Related Literature at Cambridge University. More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – I: Is Communism Compatible with Democracy?
[contextly_sidebar id=”C4rLgLM8a8l83BoV4c4KjaSUizS5r3fc”] Hundred years ago, on 7th November, 1917, [1] a revolution took place in Europe which changed the fate of entire mankind. It was the Russian More...
Pranavananda: Swami who revived Modern Hindu Nationalism
“The Hindus are not so much in need of ideas and ideals, as they are in need of strength, unity, organization, power of self-defence and a will for self-expansion. Ideas and ideals they have enough; they have More...
Book Review – Interfaith Marriage: Share and Respect with Equality
Interfaith Marriage: Share and Respect with Equality by Dr. Dilip Amin is published by Mount Meru Publishing and is available on Amazon. Interfaith Marriage: Share and Respect with Equality by Dr. Dilip Amin is More...
Threat of fanatic fatwas looming large in Indian Muslim community
Not long ago, Darul Uloom Deoband issued an edict (fatwa) declaring its ideological offshoot—Tablighi Jama’at—as “misguided”, “preacher of perverted views” and “misinterpreter of Quran More...