California Textbook Controversy: ‘Scholars for People’ sends final letter to CBE
California is currently debating the portrayal of Indian history in their school textbooks. A small group of South Asia studies faculty had asked the California Board of Education (CBE) to remove references to “India” and “Hinduism” and to replace them with the words “South Asia” and “Ancient Indian Religion.” Opposing More...
Kargil And The Manufacturing Of History-I
In the spring of 1999, when the “war-like” situation erupted in Kashmir in the Kargil district, I was doing research regarding history textbooks in Bangladesh. A few weeks before I left Bangladesh, a direct More...
Indian Millennials Have a Healthy Sense of Indian Nationhood Mr. Patel
Indian Millennials have shed old-skin and have a healthy sense of Indian nationhood, whereas oped writers live in a world where some or the other old, hackneyed Marxist trope still rules the day. India is instinctively More...
The Myth Of St. Thomas: Part One
In an article recently published by Haaretz, it has been claimed that Saint Thomas was murdered by jealous Brahmin priests of Kali with the headline– 72 CE: Thomas the Apostle Is Murdered in India. The official More...
The Arrogance Of The USCIRF
Dear Ms. Katrina Swett Lantos, This is with reference to the remarks made by you and your colleague and the chairman of the United States Commission for International Religious Freedom about Indian government’s More...
Art Of Living and Vultures around it
It started in 2010. Five thousand volunteers daily came together and worked hard for rejuvenating the forgotten river Yamuna. No one came to help them. They named that movement as “Meri Dilli, Meri Yamuna”. More...
Opposing the Left is Not “Right”-Part III:The Debate
[contextly_sidebar id=”X5xtKc4HIThiWmzo5PMf1mQdB9tgq5wi”] My two posts led to a vigorous debate with a friend who is also a mainstream journalist. You will see how the leftwing media and their supporters More...
Opposing the Left is Not “Right”-Part II: More to Mahishasura
[contextly_sidebar id=”eolQRkRaTezOzNMco6G0eQTVvzMCC1NM”] A debate ensued, which led me to write another post on February 19: This time it was it was for all and sundry. I am reproducing it in entirety More...
Opposing the Left is Not “Right”- Part I: A letter to students
Two Facebook Posts and a Debate with a Journalist Supporting Indian Left-Wing Thinking—A Case study It all started with the JNU row. Being an academic in the United States who teaches and researches in the areas More...
Stormtroopers At Shani Shingnapur
The famous British mountaineer George Mallory is supposed to have replied the question “why did you want to climb Mt Everest?” with a cryptic “because it’s there”. Unfortunately the attitude that symbolized More...