An Open Letter to Sri Rohan Murthy
Dear Sri Rohan Murthy, I read with interest your article on DailyO explaining why you funded Harvard to start and run the Murty Classical Library. I shall be honest and blunt to a fault without meaning any disrespect. I am sure you agree that a frank discourse and exchange helps all of us. If it helps, I’ve been a senior academic for over three decades More...
In defence of ordinance raj
Everybody in the Opposition and many among opinion makers are bemoaning the slew of ordinances that the Narendra Modi government has come up with. The fact that the ordinances are aimed at kick-starting economic More...
The Case for reform of Islam in India
Speaking about the risk of a likely lone wolf attack in India, Maharashtra state police chief Sanjeev Dayal told a newspaper in January: “we had this case where this man wanted to go to a school in Bandra More...
How Evangelism made Andhra an economic, cultural and spiritual ruin
The first thing I wanted to do when I got a decent job was to connect to my native roots, basically a small village in the heart of Andhra Pradesh. These were the times when a Christian Y.S Rajashekhar Reddy (YSR) More...
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism: A Review
A major and long-awaited project has been brought to completion. The 11-volume Encyclopedia of Hinduism, with a foreword by Dr. Karan Singh, is the brainchild of the India Heritage Research Foundation and Swami More...
What the CAG report said about Leela Samson
This Hindu news report mentions that Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) chief Leela Samson has put in her papers on Thursday. To affix the “controversial” adjective to Leela Samson is to state the obvious. Proximity More...
Have the Left-Liberals read Dr. Ambedkar at all?
For decades we have become accustomed to hearing the diatribes of many so-called progressives that Hindu society at large is responsible for all the woes that plague India today, and in order to achieve progress More...
God and the Constitution of India
We Indians claim to be a secular democratic republic, governed by a Constitution of India we have given ourselves. If indeed we are secular, why do we recognize “god” in our Constitution? No, the Constitution More...
What makes people make films like PK?
The collection of PK, manufactured or otherwise, is a record and the film’s been declared a blockbuster hit. While protests by some Hindu groups might have helped the film garner more publicity, the protests (sans More...