Is Times LitFest Intolerant Of Acche Din?
Dear TOI, you make fabulous ads, and you have engaged a very competent advertising agency for the job. Happy? Okay, now let’s move further from compliments and get to the heart of the matter. You might be great at making ads but you don’t do a great job of what you are supposed to. In fact, you do a pathetic job, if any. So, this fantastic ad More...
A Dummies Guide To Litfests in India
The Season It is the winters. And it is the Litfest season. Ever since the Jaipur Literature Festival started in 2006 and gradually became famous, various organizations all over India have been replicating it across More...
Ten Habits of Highly Successful Indian Liberal Intellectuals
1) Every time you come across an article, blog post or anything that has the word ‘Hindu’ in it, describe the post as ‘vile and disgusting’, regardless of the actual context. Express your hatred More...
Ashoka And Pushyamitra Sunga: A Study In Mythmaking
Let us elaborate one example of pro-Buddhist bias in modern indologist scholarship. It has to do with a story of alleged Hindu persecution of Buddhism by Pushyamitra, a general in the service of the declining Maurya More...
Practice What You Preach
When I was in the third standard, we were taught a story from the Mahabharata. All Kaurava and Pandava brothers are taking lessons and are asked to memorize them. All the 105 boys memorized their lessons well except More...
To Which Country Will Aamir Khan Migrate?
Film star Aamir Khan’s wife believes that the Narendra Modi government has been such a calamity that she wants to leave India—and he doesn’t disagree with her over the issue of ‘growing intolerance’ in More...
Nehru As Seen By A Hindu Nationalist
Intellectual Warrior of Post-Nehruvian India The late Sita Ram Goel, historian, thinker and creator of the publishing houses, Voice of India and Aditya Prakashan was a fighter par excellence for nationalist causes More...
Hypocrisy and Indian History: A Public Statement
A public statement by concerned Indian historians, archaeologists and scholars of Indian civilization. On 26 October, 53 Indian historians voiced alarm at what they perceived to be the country’s “highly vitiated More...
Contemporary Evangelism and the Resurrection of the Colonial Politics of Race, Caste and Religion
‘’The modern writing of Indian history developed during the last two centuries. The needs of these times had encouraged the adoption of certain attitudes and theories about Indian Past…….some of these stereotypes More...
Indian History Textbooks Are Needed To Be Rewritten Now
The debate over rewriting the history textbooks of India has been re-ignited and as usual emotions are running high where most of the people are not even aware about the issues at hand. But this has not prevented More...