Beef Ban Bombs Explode Ignorance
Today is the birth anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi, the man whose several written views on the cow and its slaughter were found worthy of compilation in a book of his Epigrams by S.R.Tikekar. Among the gems therein are the following: When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat; it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship More...
Gandhi: A Modern Medievalist
There can be no doubt that Gandhiji was a towering personality of 20th century India. I was raised listening to the enchanting lines of the song of the film ‘Jagrati’, “De di hame aazaadi binaa kadga binaa More...
Caravan 2.0: Why a Defunct Leftist Magazine was Revived
This is the second part of the series on anti-Hinduism as an industry written by Pankaj Saxena. [contextly_sidebar id=”IB0suNqxgeaJq5EDDJ8NHhzwZHdkvutB”] In 2009, a long-defunct leftist magazine, The More...
Book Review:- India: A Sacred Geography—A Disturbing New Front
Diana L. Eck “is professor of comparative religion and Indian studies at Harvard University and is Master of Lowell House and Director of the Pluralism Project.” She has written an atlas of sorts of More...
Behind the Hostility in Academia towards Narendra Modi: An Interview with Vamsee Juluri
The petition by several US-based academics (mostly of Indian origin) against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit to Silicon Valley has understandably garnered enormous attention. Counter petitions More...
The Five Testifiers
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced plans to visit Silicon Valley later this month, a petition of sorts was floated by a bunch of US-based academics urging Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to boycott the Prime More...
Saba Naqvi’s Intentional Ignorance on Raza Academy
In the second week of September, a fatwa(Islamic decree) was issued at the behest of Mumbai-based Islamist organisation Raza Academy against Oscar-winner Indian music director A. R. Rahman and Iranian filmmaker More...
Caste, critique and colonial consciousness: A response to Meena Dhanda
Foreword The article below is a response to Meena Dhanda’s article “Anti-castism and misplaced nativism: Mapping caste as an aspect of race in the July/August 2015 issue of the British based journal Radical More...
The Intellectual Road Rage About the Renaming of Aurangzeb Road
In some countries it’s a crime to deny the Holocaust. Holocaust denial is illegal in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Luxembourg, Poland and Romania (referenced from a Quora More...
Renaming Aurangzeb Road to Abdul Kalam Road
[This was contributed by Vinod Kumar, a US-based Mechanical Engineer and student of Islam and Hinduism.] New Delhi Municipal Council’s (NDMC) renaming Aurangzeb Road after the late President A P J Abdul Kalam More...