Lion of Punjab: Maharaja Ranjit Singh was Indic first, secular last
Pakistan is built on a foundation of hate. It is a measure of how hateful the country’s dysfunctional establishment is that for many decades, in textbooks meant for primary schools, the letter Z was represented by the word Zaalim (cruel person in Urdu) and illustrated by the image of a turbaned Sikh. It was only after Unesco and European governments More...
Kashmir: Unveil the Heaven
It is said that if there is a heaven on earth, it must be in the Kashmir Valley. It is an absolutely beautiful place with warm, loving people. Sadly, these days, tourists are scared to go there. And I was too. But More...
As a Swing State, India must go with the West this time
Shortly after India’s independence in 1947, the United States started wooing the country’s leadership. Almost simultaneously, the USSR began its overtures to Pakistan. The reasons were strategic. While the Americans More...
Unstoppable Sudha: An Interview with Sudha Raghunathan
Author’s Note: Once again Carnatic vocalist Sudha Ragunathan is not being allowed to celebrate a happy occasion. This time the wedding of her daughter with an African American is the subject of social media trolling. More...
“Hindi imposition” poses a threat to India’s unity
Usually I’m quite analytical and rational, but on this occasion I will deal with a pressing topic, which is also very much charged with raw emotions – in India, in Europe, actually all over the world. This More...
A Conservative Theory for Peace
Introduction “The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented More...
Reimagining Education in New India
The huge middleclass India of today is not satisfied with a fractured idea of India, an India whose past is inglorious, an India which has to negate its core values to accommodate the sensitivities of minority communities. More...
The Case for Truth and Reconciliation Commission of India
When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them and show More...
Evolution, Religion, and Indian Traditions-whose Clash Is It Anyway?
Evolution-a Crash Course Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) gave us the most important theory of evolution sweeping away god or intelligence as creators of living and non-living beings. His theory rested on the four More...
Mohandas Gandhi’s Celibacy Experiments
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who later received accolades like Mahatma, Bapu and Father of the Nation, is usually associated with morality, ethics, self-abnegation, piety and self-control. Gandhi openly spoke about More...