Dear Barkha Dutt: You got the meaning of “Equaliser” wrong
On 7 November, well-known journalist and TV anchor Barkha Dutt penned a piece in the Hindustan Times titled ‘This is serious: Indian politics moves to being great equaliser’ where she speaks of how the generation of entitlement-seeking Indians is coming to an end. However the piece is not free of the bias she has come to symbolize in her long More...
Ram Puniyani uses caste as an excuse to bash the RSS
On the 8 November edition of Tehelka, the well-known secular activist Ram Puniyani expressed disapproval of the Sangh’s so-called attempt to ‘hide historical truth’ of untouchability which he states is motivated More...
Historiography in Pakistan
While editing and updating the book, The Politicization of Historiography in India I incorporated an interesting article about textbooks that appeared in a Pakistani newspaper on August 14, 2014. The introductory More...
A report on the half-truths of ANHAD
On 27 September 2014, a self-styled secular organization ANHAD published a lengthy report titled ‘100 Days under the New Regime: The State of Minorities’, speaking of theNarendra Modi government’s performance More...
Dear Vinod Mehta: Indians threw the Nehruvian India in the bin in May 2014
Vinod Mehta penned an article for the Times Of India blog titled ‘India’s father and daughter: Nehru and Indira laid down principles of secularism and nationalism that today’s politicians can’t ignore’ More...
Colonial rants from Tavleen Singh
Tavleen Singh of the esteemed Indian Express, whose former editor’s modest reputation is irrecoverably tarnished by Wikileaks revelations, engaged recently in an abusive rant worthy of the worst colonial mindset More...
Anders Breivik should have read the Brussels Journal
Remember Anders Breivik? The frustrated youth who went on a killing spree in Norway on 22 July 2011 because he felt that the multiculturalists continued to poison public discourse on Islam and decided to vent his More...
Mr.Daniyal History is an academic discipline: flippancy won’t do
On 28 October, Shoaib Daniyal wrote a report on scroll.in titled Meet the icons of India’s refurbished history: Mukherjee, Upadhyaya, Malaviya. After reading the piece, one would be left with the feeling that More...
Pope Francis, the holy snake oil salesman
Pope Francis recently claimed that the theory of evolution and the Big Bang are “not incompatible with the existence of a creator” and has argued instead that they “require it.” A sympathetic media has portrayed More...
Romila Thapar: Eminent Historian’s continuing fraud
The 27 October edition of Hindu published a report titled ‘Academics must question more’ in which ‘eminent’ historian Romila Thapar questioned why Delhi’s intelligentsia were not opposing the changes More...