Ten things that define Adarsh-Liberal’s Idea of India
Ever since Narendra Modi’s government came to power in 2014, a bunch of intellectuals, liberals, seculars, and senior editors have been saying that the ‘Idea of India’ is under threat. No matter what happens, this ‘Idea of India’ is invoked. They present the ‘Idea of India’ as some universal truth and is being used for practically every More...
Pakistani Travelogue-II: Pakistani Perceptions of India
[contextly_sidebar id=”hfSO3toJTSSxNwE5BxJ1HU7EJttBiDDT”] Gargantuan government edifices glittered behind freshly painted wrought-iron fences, glamorous palaces to Pakistani politics in marble and brass More...
Remembering Veer Savarkar
The late 19th century, was when India was awakening to its spiritual heritage, its pride of place among the nations of the world, during ancient times. People like Dayananda and Swami Vivekananda were spreading More...
Bali’s Water Temples: Understanding Technology in Dharmic Rituals
In the post-modernist world, the word “Technology” has come to be associated with skills that are usually antithesis to anything that is traditional and ritualistic. This contextualization of “Technology” More...
Did BJP miss a beat in Chakrata? An alternate view of incident
On May 20, 2016, Outgoing BJP Rajya Sabha MP Tarun Vijay was pelted with stones while coming out of the Silgur Devta temple, in Uttarakhand’s Chakrata region. According to media reports, Tarun Vijay, along with More...
The Science of Tradition
For years the mystery of how homing pigeons found their way home confounded scientists. Accurate navigation in adverse weather over long distance flight is a skill that human technology is only now mastering. More...
A visit to Ayodhya
I have been visiting India for more than 30 years and probably 30 times in all. India is in my system and I have an abstract, but deep connection with Hinduism, which was confirmed in a private ritual by Guru Brahmashree More...
Does the Left feel overwhelmed by ‘Buddha in a Traffic Jam’?
In a performance that won him a posthumous Oscar, Peter Finch’s television anchor, Howard Beale, exhorts people to open their windows, lean outside, and scream loudly “I am as mad as hell, and I am not going More...
Trupti returns ‘atrupt’ from Haji Ali, but who will fight for you?
All of us know about a certain Trupti Desai. The woman who was hailed domestically and internationally as the torch bearer of the fight for gender equality. She was mainly in the news due to the recent Shani Shingnapur More...
Pakistani Travelogue-I: Welcome to Multan
During my first visit to Pakistan in 1997 I was scheduled to make a speech in Multan at Bahauddin Zakariya University. Before flying to Multan, I spent a remarkable week in Sindh, where I met incredibly articulate More...