Teaching And Research – The Rot That Has Set In
Recently HRD Minister Prakash Javdekar stoked a controversy by saying that college teachers and professors would no longer be ‘assessed on research for promotion’. He said that they would be assessed ‘mainly on teaching and their engagement in community work’. Though the move will have some limitations as universities will not come under the More...
Book Review: The Infidel Next Door by Rajat Mitra
The Infidel Next Door by Rajat Mitra is available on Amazon. The Infidel Next Door opens with an arranged marriage between a sick orphan girl and a shy boy; but it quickly evolves to embrace more than two lost More...
An interplay between women and Islamic radicalisation
Scores of Alimaat (female Islamic scholars) have been at the forefront in Morocco and Algeria in a battle against the religious radicalisation, with an aim to rescue women from the clutches of the radical clergy More...
Sri Pejawar Swamiji: A Life Dedicated To Dalit Upliftment And Hindu Unity
Whenever anyone actively works for the upliftment and strengthening of Hindu community and dharma, they get targeted by the usual suspects in the media and social justice warriors. The Pejawar mutt Acharya Sri Vishwesha More...
Interview with Sinu Joseph: On Sindhoor, Sanitary Pads & GST
[contextly_sidebar id=”M0xWDw2j1NVy5FJGomp98ENpAKBpcADy”]With the Modi government rolling out Goods and Service Tax (GST), there has been a criticism in some quarters regarding categorization of Sanitary More...
Communists and Liberals – Two Faces of ‘Elite Reaction’
Making sense of them Who are the communists? Well, in our country their popular image is of these shabbily dressed people who pontificate on the evils of capitalism, ‘neo-liberalism’ and religion. This is when More...
Anglophonic Hegemony and Indian Languages
In the wake of a statement by Sri. Venkaiah Naidu urging cultivation of Hindi by all Indians, a specter of an anti-Hindi agitation is being raised from some quarters. It is time to understand deeply, some plain More...
Book Review: Jammu & Kashmir – Dilemma of Accession by Radha Rajan
Jammu and Kashmir Dilemma of Accession: A Historical Analysis and Lesson by Radha Rajan has been published by Voice of India, New Delhi and is available on Amazon. The mystery surrounding the delayed accession More...
Veer Savarkar – A nationalist, a rationalist and a humanist
Reformers who rock the boat, who become unpopular, who disturb the social balance, who hurt religious sentiments, who turn their back on majority opinion, who think rationally—all these reformers face the inevitable More...
Kashmir Struggle is all about establishing Islamic Caliphate and Sharia
Zakir Musa, the recently ousted terrorist commander of Hizbul Mujahideen’s Indian arm, has unveiled the motivations driving Kashmir saga for the world that had hitherto remained secretive and was never talked More...