De-Marxification of HRD angers lapsed Marxist
There’s one thing that necessarily needs to be said about lapsed Marxists: they never fail to disappoint. And so it goes, in the 20 May edition of the Indian Express where cricket historian and scholar Ramachandra Guha penned what seemed to be an anguished article titled Death by a thousand cuts about the Human Resource Development minister Smriti More...
Dhimmitude is the consequence of Jihad
Islam, we are told is a ‘complete and completed system,’ ordained by God and conveyed to humanity by His Final Prophet Muhammad. The Word of God (The Quran) and the Acts of Muhammad (The Hadiths) lay down the More...
Pat Gelsinger and a Letter to a Pastor
A financial newspaper, prominent in the English ‘secular’ media in our country, recently gave favourable publicity to an evangelical book written by a ‘global CEO’. This global evangelist is Pat Gelsinger, More...
Christian Expansionism: A study
This is the concluding part of the series titled ‘Are Indian Tribals Hindus’ For the preceding parts: (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi). Christianity spread by way of four Grand Tactics, which are still More...
Pakistan: Historiography in the headlines
This excerpt is taken from the author’s forthcoming book titled, The Politics of Historiography in India. The newspaper article described below is written mostly by liberal Pakistanis, when each was asked to write More...
Mainstream media reportage of temple attacks: Analysis
Of late there has been a spate of news reports, articles, panel discussions and editorials on attacks on Churches in India. Most of these reports etc have been consistent in blaming Hindu groups for these attacks. More...
Rediscovering India: Need for a revised Historiography
Background: need a new historiography All areas of knowledge have to be periodically re-examined and rewritten in the light of new knowledge. History cannot remain exempt from this rule. History books in India still More...
Are Indian Tribals Hindus – Part 6
[contextly_sidebar id=”SVoCRMLZKHUxuJG4Gjm2xE4pnFaCHF2q”] What is Hinduism? In India, as in the rest of the world, religion was originally a tribal affair. Tribes in every corner of India, as of the More...
Distorting the meaning of Swastika
A student at the prestigious George Washington University (GWU) posted a swastika, which he acquired during his recent visit to India, in a residence hall. GWU president Steven Knapp has declared that since “its More...
Are Indian Tribals Hindus—Part 5
[contextly_sidebar id=”9PIGxu24kAR90miSqvnTehLFHFbqjpIy”] One must first understand what exactly Hinduism is in the first place. What needs to be thrashed out in detail is: what is Hinduism and who is More...