Was Guru Golwalkar a Nazi ?
Guruji’s first book It is routinely alleged in press articles and even in scholarly publications that Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, second sarsanghchalak (“chief guide of the association”) of the More...
Sita Ram Goel: The Rishi of a resurgent India
A Prophet of Nehruvian India The late Sita Ram Goel, historian, thinker and creator of the publishing houses Voice of India and Aditya Prakashan was a fighter par excellence for nationalist causes which he saw as More...
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 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...
Narendra Modi adopts Jayapura, signals cultural renewal
Today, on 7 November 2014, the people of Jayapur village in Varanasi celebrated when it was announced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would adopt and develop Jayapura in his constituency Varanasi under Saansad More...