Countering the West’s bias about Sanatana Dharma
When Shivani Desai invited me to speak here in Chapel Hill, she explained that the objective of today’s gathering was to “Create awareness about Hindu culture and heritage…” and to “Motivate the students to preserve …[their] Hindu Dharma.” This is a topic that, like a clear bell, rings in my heart and soul. More...
Forgotten Saints: Sree Narayana Guru
This year is the 160th birth anniversary of the great social reformer, philosopher, saint and visionary Sree Narayana Guru. But unfortunately with the exception of his dedicated followers in Kerala, not many know More...
Yoga for Corporates
The title seems to be fitting for this piece from OZY which speaks of a growing trend among Silicon Valley executives getting ‘Yoga’ lessons to reduce their stress level. But if one goes through the article More...
ISIS Caliphate: Lessons from the earliest Mohammedan invasions of Central Asia
Preface By 1000 CE, the Turks were already on their way to becoming the primary spearhead of Islam against the Hindus of India, the heathen civilizations of Central Asia, and the Christians in the West. The Mongol More...
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves
On the occasion of India’s 68th Independence Day it is worth recalling what the Congress did during its time in power. Act 1 Let me tell you a story about an old man who lived in a small village somewhere that More...
Kazi Nazrul Islam: The Rebel Poet
Often the debate is centred on what exactly won India her freedom: was it the numerous militant protests? Some would answer yes. Was it a result of years of constitutional tussle? Some would answer yes. Was it the More...
Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica: Their counterfeit St. Thomas entries exposed
The cult of St. Thomas originated in and was centred at Edessa at least up to the eighth century when the Muslims began to invade Syria, and it is the considered opinion of many historians today that nobody in Asia More...
Kulapati K.M. Munshi: the Pilgrim who marched towards freedom
“A sea shell thrown up by the mighty flood of Indian renaissance,” is how Dr. Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, described himself. And sadly that is what the post-Independence Indian History Establishment More...
Hindus must reclaim their history
In an opinion piece in Outlook (“Chaining 1200 years”, 7-7-2014), Hasan Suroor takes issue with PM Narendra Modi’s diagnosis that Indians suffer from a slave mentality due to “1200 years” of oppression. More...
A Primer on Economics: Markets versus Command and Control
There are two broadly defined systems of organizing the production of goods and services in a society, and the subsequent distribution and consumption of the products. One system is called “the market” and the More...