Irfan Habib still searching for the Saraswati River
But a library shelf filled with contemporary geographical and historical research about the Sindhu-Saraswati [aka] Harappan [aka] IVC has been right under his nose for twenty-five years! In the 17 April edition of The Hindu, a sarcastically penned article, printed prominently at the top of the page in the Opinion-Comment section, titled “Searching More...
The roots of the discourse on Communalism
In times of communal carnage we see news channels beaming gory images and calling for shrill debates where in most cases less is achieved except straining tonsils. What is otherwise done is the majority is painted More...
Nehruvian Statecraft meant snooping on Bose Family
As records tumble out of the IB’s almairahs, there is a veritable helter-skelter in the house of the usual suspects. Those guilty have been duly exposed for the unpardonable crime they had committed against the More...
Are Indian Tribals Hindus: Part 4
Read the previous parts here. As already pointed out, the three aims of the insidious missionary propaganda are: a) to tell the tribals that they are not Hindus and have no connections with the larger Hindu society More...
Time to Hold India’s Media Legally Accountable
This is an excerpt from one of my books titled, ‘Orissa in the Crossfire – Kandhamal Burning.’ This is the same book that the Indian Parliamentarian and Congress Party leader Digvijaya Singh demanded be More...
Are Indian Tribals Hindus: Part 3
Read the previous parts here. III. The North At this point, we can see the figures for the northern region, consisting of Jammu-Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh., which will obviously be different from the two regions More...
Blame it on the Kellys
Recently, there have been several well-publicized incidences of violence against Christians and/or their institutions in India. A cry went up to the heavens— ‘persecution of Christians by the Pagan Hindus!’ More...
Are Indian tribals Hindus: The Figures
[contextly_sidebar id=”xxovdHBHowzOZ0ozoxH4EV60FAw9syUe”] The Southern Heartland The following are the figures for the total tribal population of the four South Indian states, (Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra More...
Abrahamic ideology inspires extraterritorial loyalty
The Mongol empire founded by Chingiz Khan and furthered by his sons and grandsons was remarkable in practicing religious freedom as a state policy. The early Khans did not enforce their ancestral Altaic religion More...
Are Indian Tribals Hindus: Part I
The previous piece on the subject had offered a curtain raiser to this very crucial topic affecting the integrity and even the sovereignty of Bharata as a nation. Beginning with the British anthropological studies More...