Reflections on Hindu Identity
Recently, while interacting with the students of Arya Mahila College affiliated to Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, I was asked, ‘What makes someone a Hindu?’ As I paused for a few moments to reflect on this complicated question, I realized there is a beautiful framework available within our own knowledge tradition that can be utilized to provide More...
Game Changer: Peace Bonanza and Development – Modi’s trump card for Assam
A tryst with peace, destiny and development. A festive atmosphere prevailed in Kokrajhar to celebrate the Bodo accord. The All Bodo Student’s Union (ABSU) and NDFB organised a bike rally and native residents More...
When Congress, Left argued for CAA like legislation
Even as the current leadership of both the opposition Congress party and the Left parties continue to term Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) “unconstitutional” and “an assault on the fundamental principles More...
India as India has Existed since Antiquity in Greek & Roman Accounts
Mr. Saif Ali Khan, as he was promoting his recently released movie Tanhaji, made a comment, perhaps in all sincerity, “I don’t think there was a concept of India till the British gave it one.” Mr. Khan has More...
Supplementing Existing Legal Arguments on Sabarimala
Despite all witty-weighty arguments of lawyers in the defense of Sabarimala tradition, on 28 September 2019 the Hon’ble Supreme Court by 4:1 majority lifted the ban on women of a certain age/menstrual age from More...
Bringing India to heel
In the decades after Indian independence, Western powers, led by the UK and later increasingly the US, were irritated and disappointed with Nehru’s India. Nehru’s exaggerated view of his world standing, mostly More...
Why endangered India has few well-wishers abroad
The nationwide outcry over the perfectly reasonable and measured legislative programme pertaining to the NRC and the CAA has revealed starkly what some already know. India has very few friends abroad and a significant More...
Liberation of Goa: Removing The Portuguese Pimple On The Face Of Mother India
The Portuguese were the first European colonisers who came to India and the last to leave. This was remarkable for such a tiny country with very few natural resources. While the British were evicted in 1947, no More...
Heroic Pagan Resistance to Monotheist Aggression
The Pope was recently embroiled in controversy when five icons of Pachamama, the traditional deity of the Andean people of South America, were included in a prayer service in the Vatican.[1] This episode should More...
BHU SVDV Appointment: What Is at Stake
Let us make it clear at the outset that this article is not a denunciation of the individual assistant professor whose appointment at the Faculty of Sanskrit Vidya Dharma Vigyan (SVDV) department in Banaras Hindu More...