UK’s Labour Party Stands against Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to make a much-anticipated visit to the UK on 12-14 November 2015. Of benefit to both countries, the visit is cause for great celebration to UK Indians. The 13 November event at Wembley to connect the Indian diaspora to Modi, no mean organisational feat by any measure,is expected to reach 55,000 persons. But the joy More...
Religious Pluralism and Distorted Notions of Secularism in Education
The events of the European Reformation and its aftermath in which the material power of the Christian Church was reduced, still hang heavy as a collective memory in social orders that have inherited this civilization. More...
Sad Sardesai, Happy India
I’m writing this in response to Rajdeep Sardesai’s lament that begins with the famous Javed Akhtar song from Silsila…Yeh kahan aa gaye hum…in terms of what a vitriolic atmosphere we have gotten ourselves More...
The Narrative is Churning Away from Pseudo Secularism
This article was co-authored with Rajneesh. An unfortunate Indian got lynched at Dadri recently. However, more unfortunately for the nation, the media embarked on a lynching of its own making, and it does not seem More...
Malcolm Turnbull Shows the Way
When asked about the “Breaking News” story of a multiple rape by a juvenile group in his state, UP’s Netaji said “Boys will be boys”. The same has now happened about the Dadri episode in that state. Politicians More...
Moral Outrage of EyeStar Seagull
EyeStar Seagull gloomily stared at the television as she flipped channels. “What is this country coming to,” she said to her naukarani Rasika, the only one around who listened to her any more, “I see rallies More...
Yatha Raja: Will the UPSC now Change?
The Union Public Service Commission has constituted a committee “to overhaul the entire examination scheme and suit the selection process to the skills required for each set of services”. More than six decades More...
The Original Himalayan Blunder: How India Lost Gilgit-Baltistan
The original Himalayan Blunder was with regard to the Gilgit Agency and the Wazarat, which many don’t even remember. Gilgit-Baltistan, as we know it today comprised Gilgit Agency and Gilgit Wazarat back in 1947. A More...
Mr. Modi: UN Permanent Membership is not a Big Deal Anymore
In 1998 when Germany attempted to push the United Nations General Assembly for a vote on new permanent members, Italy’s ambassador Francesco Fulci managed to scuttle the move, saying his country had an equal right More...
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth: – Book Review
In 66 C.E., fed up with the Roman occupation of their land, the Jews declared war on the Roman Empire. Soldiers patrolled even in the temple of this supposedly inconsequential part of the empire. Imagine the anger More...