Citizen Responsibility: Invoking the Sacred
My fellow Indians, Unless you are living on another planet you have all probably heard, read, watched most of the news and analyses there is about the recent bold step introduced by the Government of India led by Prime Minister Modi. Yes, I am speaking of the demonetisation of the large currency notes (of the denomination of 500 and 1000). A lot has More...
Meaning of India in Words of Raja Rao: Brief Life Sketch of a Novelist as Sadhaka
On the occasion of 108th anniversary of Raja Rao, one of India’s most illustrious English language writer, IndiaFacts presents “Meaning of India” in his words, written by his wife Susan Raja Rao. Raja More...
Pakistan’s Zero Sum Game – Some Historical Perspectives – Part II
[contextly_sidebar id=”pcsGYY4n1eiDOKiDgjpmeJdoT1KUTsE1″] While Pakistan struggles towards its goal of achieving a homogenous monoculture with Islamism at its core, India has struggled equally to define More...
Worship and the Holy Dogs of modernity
One of the biggest strikes of Christianity and Islam against pagan and dharmic traditions is that of “blasphemy” or “shirk.” No bigger shirk than having companions for Allah or that of “idol worship”—that More...
Pakistan’s Zero Sum Game – Some Historical Perspectives-1
Pakistan and India fought the first Kashmir war between October 1947 and December 1948. At the time of independence, the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was independently ruled by Maharaja Hari Singh, of the More...
Pagan and Monotheistic Violence
[contextly_sidebar id=”BSeG8JZLATQzdDJEHhudgYVnspxd0Vmz”] This essay is a meditation on the second chapter of Jan Assmann’s Of God and Gods, titled ‘Seth the Iconoclast: Polytheism and the Language More...
A Theory of Polytheism
This essay is based on the first chapter of the book Of God and Gods by Jan Assmann, titled ‘Understanding Polytheism’. Assmann begins with the very interesting comment that as yet there has been no valid coherent More...
Army’s surgical strikes on PoJK are an opportunity to change the narrative about India
Certain events in a nation’s history are etched deep in its collective consciousness and have the potential to set the tone for future narratives. Quite often, we Indians have squandered away the positive opportunities More...
Why Russia-Pakistan ties should not vex India
How’s this for timing? On September 23, as many as 250 troops from the Indian Army’s Kumaon Regiment arrived in Vladivostok for INDRA-2016, an 11-day joint exercise with an equal number of Russian Army troops. More...
Is Uri the beginning of the end for Pakistan?
Immediately after the Pakistan-backed terrorist attacks in Mumbai, November 26-29, 2008, my country dispatched Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to New Delhi “to ease tensions.” I was furious and asked if More...