The Grand JNU Narrative
I arrived in JNU on a clear, balmy August afternoon of 1990. The subsequent 4 years I spent there, first as an MA then as an M. Phil student in Linguistics, were one of the most formative for a middle-class next-door guy from Patna. I owe a lot to my JNU education and overall I have a very fond memory of being there. I learned from some of the most More...
Jammu and Kashmir acceded to India on 26 October 1947, Period.
Quite often when a product has shortcomings, its manufacturer resorts to deceptive marketing. It creates a smoke screen over the product’s limitations and marketing managers take it further by confusing and corrupting More...
Atrocity Literature: A Western Recipe to dismantle India and Hinduism
In 1927, Katherine Mayo wrote a viciously anti-India and anti-Hindu book “Mother India”, which portrayed Hindu society as uncivilized, barbaric and oppressive towards women and children by cherry picking incidents More...
Academic Hinduphobia Going Mainstream
Introduction Last weekend while firming our plans for Inferno, we chanced upon an article. We could not help reading it with uninterrupted amusement, for, right from the click-bait headline to the nearly 900 More...
Lakshmi on the BBC
This is a comment on the BBC In Our Time programme, on Lakshmi, hosted by Lord Melvin Bragg broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 6 October 2016. Without making any statement about the sincerity of the presenter or those More...
Duplicity, Ignorance & Fear Causing Dirty Politics Around “Surgical Strikes”
The political Opposition of India must be held guilty of dirtying the lustre of our rarest or rare “surgical strikes” undertaken in the wee hours of September 29, 2016. That was when some 200 Special Forces More...
India before the British Conquest
India is a living civilization. No other nation has a continuance of philosophies, rituals, cultures and traditions in the manner in which India has it. Even after thousands of years, of which there were centuries More...
Culture Wars against Hindus
The foremost source of unrelenting and egregious slander against Hindus is India’s film industry, led by Bollywood. Pakistani marauders were halted at the border in 1948 and repudiated every time subsequently, More...
Why Pakistan is able to Raise the K-Rant Again & Again
Nawaz Sharif’s speech at the UN General Assembly on 21st September of 2016 would have been foolish and laughable for any Prime Minister. It certainly tickled those Indians, who are familiar with what Pakistan More...
Perception about Kashmir unrest is the handiwork of spin doctors
Oftentimes perceptions are contrary to the truths. This happens, when systematic efforts are made to create a smokescreen to hide the real picture and then dole out camouflage as reality. Nowhere is this more visible More...