Civilisational Responsibility limits Indian citizenship to persecuted adherents of Indic religions only
“India, that is Bharat…” When framers of our Constitution used those words in that sequence in its very first article, they were conscious of certain facts: One, India is just a new name of our country Bharat that is homeland of our millennia-old civilisation that gave birth to four major religions – Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism More...
Howdy Modi: Undoing the disasters of Rowdy Nehru
Howdy Modi is not just a buzzword – it is symbolic of the synergy in India-US ties. Being democracies and opposed to the sterile and soul-killing doctrine of communism, they should have been natural allies from the More...
Culture War after Article 370: It is for the Left Liberals to Lose it
Historical events do not always betray the culture of the times in which they occur; it is the intellectual climate they usher in and the narratives they engender, which reveal the deep structure of the society. More...
Enduring religion in the Kashmir conflict
That the conflict over Kashmir is religious seems self-evident to most people who care to talk about it. Opposing sides fundamentally agree the conflict has a religious character. US President Trump may have summed More...
Re-imagining the Directive Principles of State Policy
The Directive Principles of State Policy (DPSP), enshrined in Parts IV and IVA of the Indian Constitution, were inserted in the Constitution by the framers to serve as a vision of the future of the Indian civilization. More...
A Temple for Romila Thapar?
The recent outrage over JNU administration’s communication to noted historian Romila Thapar to submit her updated CV to help the administration review the possibility of her continuation as Professor Emeritus (an More...
What should be the future of POK? A Legal Perspective
The abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution of India by the Hon’ble Home Minister of India, Shri Amit Shah last month has sparked number of debates, the most prominent of them being what shall be the future More...
Combat at 16,000 feet: How Kargil reshaped the India Pakistan military balance
In February 1999, the Pakistan Army launched Operation Badr, with soldiers from its Special Service Group, Northern Light Infantry and Sind Regiment along with heavily armed Afghan mercenaries occupying the posts More...
Left-Liberals as passionate reactionaries- Deconstructing the Romila Thapar incident
The human mind is controlled primarily by two psychological phenomena – reason & passion. These concepts were acknowledged in the great ideological debate between the arch proponents of Classical Liberalism More...
JNU, the Headquarters of the Breaking India Enterprise
Understanding the Breaking India Enterprise We owe the phrase ‘breaking India’ to that wonderfully insightful book co-authored by Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan (Breaking India: Western Interventions More...