Claim the narrative, don’t let biased media define us
News has never been a completely objective account. Framing, a theory in journalism studies, states that news stories often emphasize one aspect of a given event, while ignoring others. This usually leads to an unbalanced account of the event. Framing then, points towards creation of a narrative around themes, especially contentious ones, in a society More...
Bollywood’s passive-aggressive attitude towards Hinduism
My daughter was insisting that we watch “funny videos” on YouTube (casting on TV) while she had her scrambled egg breakfast and waited for her math teacher to show up. When I started the YouTube app, I came More...
Kanchi Seer Should Not Bow Down to Prejudice-Filled Tamil ‘Anthem’
Sri Vijayendra Sarasvati, the designated successor to the current pontiff of the Kanchi Mutt, has been the target of vicious media attacks spearheaded by the Dravidianists and leftists. In a recent function which More...
Myopic Pedagogy: Prejudicial Representations of India in U.S. Social Studies Classrooms
When negative stereotypes about India are taught as fact in American classrooms, students of Indian heritage may be adversely impacted as they struggle to work out their identity in a pluralistic, predominately More...
The Politics of British Orientalism: Evangelism and the Aryan-Dravidian Dichotomy
Knowledge is Political Any knowledge that does not strictly fall within the boundaries of the physical sciences can be, and often is, intensely political. By this I chiefly mean two things. Firstly, its character More...
Masters of Manipulation: Christianity’s Perception Manipulation vis-à-vis Hindus – 2
[contextly_sidebar id=”Bb8PFCMfHkFx7BaI0rHkoS9hx7LHpEES”] This is the second and concluding part of a 2-part article describing how Indian Christian groups are masters in developing convenient narratives, More...
Galloping Growth of Madrasas in India
Islam is hell-bent on re-conquering India. Post-independence through Madrasa multiplication Darul Uloom Deoband has laid a formidable siege to India. The task was facilitated by secularism-doped Hindus swearing More...
Indian Academia and its Colonized Self
The Self is Brahman, Speech is Brahman The Upanishads, some of the foundational texts of the Indic religious-ethical tradition, are replete with a profound humanism. They do not conceive the Divine as something More...
Book Review: Aadhaar, A Biometric History of India’s 12-Digit Revolution
Aadhaar, A Biometric History of India’s 12-Digit Revolution by Shankkar Aiyar is available for purchase on Amazon and Flipkart. This book is perhaps the most detailed and comprehensive biography of Aadhaar and More...
Understanding Christian believers: Jews for Jesus
When I first realized that Christians believed in the doctrine of “exclusive salvation via Jesus” and that non-Christians were going to hell, it came as a shock to me as a child raised in the pluralistic milieu More...