Checkmating Anti-Hindus Like Mehdi Hasan

[contextly_sidebar id=”uyK1c785U7K011P9Q19fXvi3NrIH0qkN”] This is the concluding part of my three part series on the recent Al Jazeera episode in which the anchorperson and Islamic bigot Mahdi Hasan ambushed a Hindu activist and leader. Opponents of Hinduism level scurrilous charges against Hindutva in the hope of putting the Hindu participant More...

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By Yogini Deshpande On Saturday, January 9th, 2016
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Feminist and Media Discourse on Rape Protects Rapists

A group of friends whose friendship is thicker than blood set out on a road trip. Sometime during the trip one of the men sexually abuses and rapes one of the females in the group. If you happen to be one of the More...


By Kalavai Venkat On Monday, January 4th, 2016
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Exposing Mehdi Hasan’s Accomplices

[contextly_sidebar id=”WwLYXQ2c255FE34NJcWzF4PRsCN9YkLA”] This article is a continuation of Responding to Mehdi Hasan – How Hindus Should Engage Their Opponents. This is an attempt to outline ways More...


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By Abhinav Agarwal On Saturday, January 2nd, 2016
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Was Ford Foundation Culpable In Aborting Female Foetuses In India?

The Ford Foundation’s Quest to Fix the World – this New Yorker piece in the January 2016 issue of the magazine by someone named Larissa MacFarquhar caught my eye. It’s beyond doubt that Ford More...


By Kalavai Venkat On Thursday, December 31st, 2015
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Responding to Mehdi Hasan – How Hindus Should Engage Their Opponents

Mehdi Hasan is an Islamic bigot. He has dehumanized non-Muslims by equating them with animals. He has infamously threatened newspapers with sanctions for portraying Islam in ways he thinks are negative. He is a More...


By Mayuresh Didolkar On Tuesday, December 29th, 2015
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I am Left and You are Wrong

I recently finished reading American thinker Ben Shapiro’s book “ Bullies- How the Left’s culture of fear and intimidation silences America”. In this book the author has demonstrated with case after case More...


By Abhinav Agarwal On Friday, December 18th, 2015
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The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa In Theory And Practice

Christopher Hitchens’ iconoclastic polemic against Mother Teresa makes for riveting reading. Uncomfortable questions are raised that beget even more uncomfortable answers. An icon suffers from the harsh gaze of More...


By Bharavi On Wednesday, December 16th, 2015
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How The Grinch Stole Mithra-Jayanti

“So true is it that all transactions of pre-eminent importance are wrapped in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are More...


By Hari Ravikumar On Tuesday, December 15th, 2015
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Deconstructing D D Kosambi: Myth and Reality

This is the first part of a series deconstructing Marxist historian and scholar D D Kosambi’s work, “Myth and Reality.” In 1962, the Marxist historian D D Kosambi published a work titled Myth and Reality: More...


By Tufail Ahmad On Wednesday, December 9th, 2015
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It Is Time Faisal Devji Is Fired By The Oxford University

I think that Faisal Devji, an author and historian at the University of Oxford, should be fired from his job for writing an ideologically motivated article on the terror threat to India in The Hindu, a leading Marxist More...