West Bengal: the Enemy Within
Both before and since Independence, Marxists viewed radical Islam as a natural ally in Indian subcontinent thereby nurturinga sense of hatredand alienation among the Muslims of Bengal. This propaganda benefitted them,which ultimately gave rise to radical Islamist politics. Boththe Marxist and militant Islamic politics worked together in justifying hate More...
Land Acquisition Bill: the core issues
The government’s effort to bring amendments to the land acquisition Act of 2013 has caused such political rancour that it has become difficult to form an unbiased assessment of the issues involved. The government More...
Temstula, the action hero of the Ganga Ghats says she is not done yet!
On the occasion of Ganga Dussehra, 2000 diyas (lamps) lit up the Babua Pandey Ghat making it a sight to behold. Some months ago, this sight would seem impossible to even imagine! So how did a ghat that reeked in More...
Savarkar and Modi, beginning and end of Hindutva
Hate mongers Hate mongers often need concocted stories to buttress their political message. In India, these are most common in that peculiar Indian form of hatred: anti-Brahminism. As the local counterpart to what More...
Remembering a Karmayogi
Our one meeting ‘How old are you?’ Sitaramji asked me. ‘Forty’. ‘You are younger than my younger son’, he said affectionately. Thus began my first and only meeting with Sitaramji in November 1993. More...
Invaders in the mind: A model of the colonial psyche
The Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) is the lynchpin of ancient Indian historiography. It dictates that India is divided into two dominant races of the Aryans in the north and the Dravidians in the south. The Aryans More...
Open Letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on completing a year
“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded More...
2019 and beyond: Narendra Modi has laid the foundations for a long-term BJP Government
Everyone has their opinions on how the Narendra Modi government has performed in this past one year. Or not performed. However, my reading of the Modi government’s performance over this one year is straight from More...
Bollywood as a mix of junk food and Islamism
We eat junk food with the full knowledge that it is, well, junk. We crave it, gorge on it, all in the name of taste and don’t care how much of a land whale and waste dump it makes out of us. We justify it even More...
Arvind Kejriwal’s endless sanctimony
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has crafted a new political philosophy. According to the Kejriwal School of Thought, governance is a mix of reckless populism, sanctimonious statements, and a variety of theatrical More...