Masters of Manipulation: Christianity’s Perception Manipulation vis-à-vis Hindus-1
“Déjà vu Feeling Once Again!” wrote a user on microblogging social media platform while posting a photograph of Catholic Christian leaders meeting UP CM Yogi Adityanath at his office in Lucknow. The media covered the meeting on April 22, 2017 with the headline, “Catholic priests meet Yogi, request freedom to worship without fear”. The Catholic More...
Ryan International Group: Using Education for Evangelism
In recent times, Ryan International School has been in the news for the murder of a 7 year old boy. However, in this article, we will not focus on that issue, but rather on what the group is all about, how it operates More...
Book Review- ‘Sur’s Ocean: Poems from the Early Tradition’ By John Stratton Howley
“Sur’s Ocean: Poems from the Early Tradition” is a volume in the controversial series Murty Classical Library of India. This translation of Sūradās’s great Hindi volume ‘Sūrasāgara’ from the More...
Secularism in India: History, Implications and Alternatives
India officially became a secular nation in 1976 with the 42nd Amendment of the Constitution of India enacted in 1976. [1] [2] But what does secularism mean? Unlike the West which is very clear about the core tenets More...
Debacle at Dunkirk – Hollywood can’t whitewash the shame
Some people in India will swallow any outrageous lie if it comes with a Western stamp of approval. The Battle of Dunkrik in 1940 was a massive and humiliating defeat suffered by the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) More...
Islam and ‘Syncretism’ in Indian History
…. if India is to be represented by her best and not by her inferior races…in accordance with…the past glories of [an]…ancient race, I call upon the Congress to rule, not that there shall be as many Mahomedans More...
Sufism in India – A bloodied History
The advent of Islam in India has generally been regarded as a peaceful and mostly non violent process under which the various Sufi saints arrived in India from various parts of West Asia, and settled down here. More...
Yoga: Philosophy, practice, or politics?
[contextly_sidebar id=”PeRhGeG0eFP2a5fDRfs4BKDxjxwWY6id”]Ever since the declaration of an International Yoga Day, there has been a curiously bifurcated international reaction to Yoga, Hinduism and India. More...
Narrative and meta-narrative in Tony Joseph’s opus on ‘Aryan’ Invasion Theory
It is remarkably ironic that the last word — positively the very last word — on paleoanthropology was produced by Tony Joseph in The Hindu newspaper “How genetics is settling the Aryan Invasion debate” More...
Indian Culture & History: Whose Narrative Should It Be- 4
[contextly_sidebar id=”FAmh6weC1d8LxuA52sabhriXmuo5CX5q”] What makes Indian culture and history unique is the multiplicity of conflicting narratives that it is made up of. From those emerging from the More...