Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Call for An Islamic Reformation
When an adolescent at school gleefully told me that the tooth fairy was not the one generously enriching my piggybank, and that it had to be one of my parents leaving the treasured coins under my pillow, I was shocked, even scandalized. I grew out of that childish belief though, only to discover that more of the world is not what it appears to be. This More...
On the passing of the Ayyas
In the aftermath of the recent incident over attacks on Brahmins in Tamil Nadu, one can think of many things to say and write. One could write about the history of the Dravidian movement and its unique focus on More...
List of Indian Nuclear Scientists who died mysterious deaths
Homi Jhangir Bhabha The death of Homi Jhangir Bhabha, Indian nuclear physicist, in 1966 is regarded a mystery by many. Dr. Bhabha had died in an air crash after he publicly said India could produce a nuclear device More...
Narendra Modi stands between India’s breakup
Even the highly educated elites of the USSR, with immeasurable historical experience of foreign invasions over centuries, failed to protect their country from chaotic rout. And it only took two decades for the successor More...
Jihad in Kashmir promises Muslim crusaders heaven for occupying India
Had it not been for the fact that he was chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, just like his father and his grandfather, he could have easily been mistaken for a middle-aged but fit Caucasian guy working on the South More...
Mufti igniting dangerous fires even as the BJP naps
As they say if you don’t learn from mistakes, you are bound to repeat them. Back in the 1980s, Pakistan flags were seen during cricket matches in Jammu in Kashmir. From sporadic incidents that eventually grew More...
Beef Has Hurt Freedom Far More than any Beef-Ban
The pro-beef lobby has been incredibly oblivious to the devastating role that the demand for beef has played in human history. The discussion about beef in most of the major Indian media outlets (and their colonial More...
China wants to use Pakistan as disposable item, says US academic
An American scholar, who is an outspoken critic of Pakistan army domination of their country’s politics and author of “Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War,” has said China just wants to use More...
Evaluating Ambedkar in the Reformist Tradition
This paper was first published on the National Seminar- New Dalit Agenda for the 21st Century organized jointly by the Indus Research Centre, New Delhi and Ambedkar Chair, IIPA, New Delhi that took place on 12 More...
Nehru exposed: Snooping on Bose’s kin
The recent revelations that Jawaharlal Nehru snooped on Subhas Chandra Bose’s kin will go a long way exposing the first prime minister as a cunning politician. Generations of Indians have been fed on the Congress-Left More...