Lessons for Comrade Yechury
An op-ed penned by CPM’s Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury which appeared in the Hindustan Times on September 23 2014 echoes the same allegation mentioned in a previous report also from the Hindustan Times– that is, the RSS’s new found “agenda” of absorbing Dalits into the larger Hindu fold by rewriting history. In this response I More...
Hindustan Times’ Incomplete Report on the RSS
On 22 September 2014, this report from Hindustan Times speaks of the RSS’s new found agenda of absorbing Dalits into the larger Hindu fold by rewriting history. The report goes on to mention how following the More...
Sagarika Ghose must go to school
On 17 September, 2014 in an op-ed on Times of India titled ‘Rename secularism. Call it ‘dharma’ or righteous administration,’ senior columnist and former news anchor Sagarika Ghose claimed among other things: Secularism More...
Stalin’s Apologetic Atheism
On 31 August there was a buzz on social media as DMK leader M.K. Stalin was damned by his supporters for allegedly greeting people on the Ganesh Chaturthi via his social media accounts. Stalin’s party rushed to More...
India’s 9/11 began centuries ago
One should respect Ayman Muhammad Rabi al-Zawahiri’s perfect sense of timing. On 3 September 2014, the long-time second-in-command and present head of the dreaded terror organization Al-Qaeda, announced the formation More...
State of intellectuals in Contemporary India-Part 3
Joseph Goebbels who was the chief propagandist of the German Nationalist Socialist Party, once famously said: If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. Fortunately More...
State of intellectuals in Contemporary India-Part 2
Ever since India attained independence, public discourse in scholarly matters has largely been dominated by the leftists because they were successful in obtaining the necessary financial, institutional as well More...
CNN-IBN tries hard to deny the reality of Love Jihad
In what seems to be a stark warning, the piece titled ‘Love Jihad’ and religious conversion polarise in Modi’s India which appeared on the IBN website paints the picture of a religiously polarized More...
State of intellectuals in Contemporary India
Who is an intellectual? The renowned economist Fredrick Hayek defined intellectuals as persons who transmit the ideas of specialized scientists to the general population.This definition included “journalists, More...
Preserve Sanskrit to preserve ancient Indian knowledge systems
Mathematics and mathematical thinking have been an important aspect of Indian culture for a long time. From ancient philosophical verses like “Poornasya poornamaadaaya poornamevaavashishyate” (Infinity More...