Titu Mir a freedom fighter or a Jihadist
[contextly_sidebar id=”lNqHElB0DSsl96EtzYqloygGm6uOnooa”] Titu Mir (1782–1831) is eulogized in Bengali children’s literature as a brave freedom fighter who dared to stand up against the British might from behind his bamboo fort. He is celebrated in Bengali folklore as a peasant leader. He is particularly honoured in Bangladesh. In More...
Book Review: Black Money and Tax Havens by R Vaidyanathan
“Black Money and Tax Havens” by R Vaidyanathan can be purchased from Amazon. The subject of black money, and tax havens that act as conduits for such black money, has been the topic of intense fascination More...
The Modern Shalya-s
Whenever, one’s position gets endangered, it is natural to get indignant. I could feel the same anger in Devdutt Pattanaik‘s latest article critiquing PM Modi’s choice of Shalya to paint the opponents. There More...
Time is Ripe for Deeper Look at Indian Knowledge Systems
Last year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his work on Autophagy caused quite some excitement among Indians as it directly correlated with what we knew about Ekadasi Vrata and cellular More...
Maharashtra Loan Waiver: Bureaucratic Confusion & Corruption
The Maharashtra Government’s Loan Waiver Scheme has become a case of confusion worse confounded. First, on June 24, this year, the government announced a mega agri-loan waiver of Rs 34,022/- crores after a state-wide More...
The cow that saved the world
The Apocalypse of John or The Book of Revelation in The Bible is a veritable repository of the prophecies surrounding the Apocalypse and the Second Coming of Jesus and the ensuing thousand year old reign. It begins More...
Decolonizing the Indian Civil services-2
[contextly_sidebar id=”lvXzbemMsp3tREMJjxqUGVpPrPDSYh0x”]This a transcript of a talk delivered by Rajiv Malhotra Sociology: In the Sociology discipline, the very discipline is basically modern, based More...
Islamist cleric’s Hate Speech in Kolkata: Why Ulema silent?
The Ministry of Home Affairs, in its affidavit in the apex court, has asserted that the issue of Rohingyas fell under the exclusive domain of policy decision of the executive. It categorically stated that the “fundamental More...
China’s Tryst with Sanskrit as Area Studies: A Few Lessons on Diplomacy for India
Policymakers have a lot to learn from historians and language experts. So do diplomats. Unless the policymakers of a country like India – which is surrounded by aggressive, imperialist nations on three sides – More...
Al-Qalam’s jihadist underpinnings: Feeding ‘Muslim victimhood’ narrative in India
The in-house Urdu magazine of the extremist outfit, Jaish-e-Muhammad-al-Qalam has published an article urging the South Asian Muslims to wage a violent jihad in Myanmar in retaliation of the reported persecutions More...