How To write about Hindus with your Left Hand
(This satirical piece was first published on the author’s blog) Always use the word Hindu as if you really meant to write Hindoo but are too polite. Words like ‘dusk’, ‘soul’, ‘heterodox’, ‘bourgeois’, ‘traditional’, ‘Orientalist’, naturally, help. Subtitles may include the words ‘ancient’, ‘plural’, ‘civilisation’, More...
Status of women in ancient India
This was contributed by Nirmal, and first published in Hinduism Today. They call it a bad rap when someone is wrongly accused of something, and in recent Indian history both women and Hinduism have suffered just More...
Peshawar massacre and ignorant liberals
With every passing day, my disdain for liberals grows. Earlier, it was primarily because of their proclivity to slavishly follow the Left, because of their moral bankruptcy; now, I am getting convinced that our More...
Does one become a Hindu?
Both Sita Ram Goel and VamadevaShastri (David Frawley) have written a book called How I Became a Hindu. I could never write such a book because I have deliberately made a choice not to identify myself as Hindu. More...
Why Ghar Wapsi should be welcomed
The topic of conversion has become centre stage in India – not because millions have been converted from their Hindu faith to Christianity and Islam in recent years, but because some 50 Muslim families came back More...
Thiruvalluvar Birth Anniversary Celebrations: Heralding a glorious future
This is a Research Paper prepared by Professor Sami Thiagarajan, Presdient of Dravidian Intellectual Forum, Chennai, and, Bala Gauthaman, Director of Vedic Science Research Center, Chennai; Translated and Edited More...
Atal Bihari Vajpayee – Patriot, Orator, Poet, Prime Minister and Statesman
The man whom India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru prophesied to become the Prime Minister of India one day, the man whom the then PM Manmohan Singh called the “Bhishma Pitamah of Indian Politics,” More...