Dealing with bullies: the Siddharth Varadarajan way
Siddharth Varadarajan, former editor of the Hindu on 15 February tweeted thus: Siddharth Varadarajan is outraged because Penguin Books does not play an activist role in opposing Section 153 of the Indian Penal Code. He has now demanded that his book, ‘Gujarat, the Making of a Tragedy’ be pulped and the copyright be reverted to him so More...
On Wendy Doniger’s alternative history
Note: This is a reprint of Aseem Shukla’s 2010 essay. Also appended is the exchange he had with Wendy Doniger. History empowers and history emasculates. History, like art, is beautiful or odious to the beholder. More...
Wendy Doniger’s Hindus
Note: This is a republication of a 2010 essay is authored by Shyam N. Shukla. Dr. Wendy Doniger has impressive credentials with two doctorates, in Sanskrit and Indian Studies, from Harvard and Oxford universities. More...
Decoding Wendy Doniger’s Hinduism book: Part 3
Read parts 1 and 2. We Hindus In the light of foregoing, it is incumbent upon contemporary Hindus and Hindu scholars to regain the initiative and using indigenous historiography and cognitive categories and to institute More...
Wendy Doniger’s fake victimhood
The withdrawal of a book by Penguin Books has made the author of the book feel bitter and portray herself as a victim. This strange attempt at self-martyrdom does not hold any water and is a lame effort on her part More...
Decoding Wendy Doniger’s Hinduism book: 2
Read part 1 here. Bridge of discourse between ‘This Hindu’ and ‘That Hindu’ Hindus need to be wary of the intractable opposition between “This Hindu and “That Hindu” that is falsely posited and perpetrated More...
Decoding Wendy Doniger’s Hinduism book: 1
Editor’s note: This is the first part of a scholarly critique of Wendy Doniger’s The Hindus: An Alternative History published in 2009. This book published by Penguin was withdrawn by the publisher More...
Leftism won’t revive the economy
It has been some time that we have been hearing that the ‘economy has bottomed out.’ When something bottoms out, the only direction it moves towards is upwards, but that, unfortunately, is not happening to our More...
UPA’s sham on inflation
After almost a decade of misrule, it has dawned on the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) that inflation is… well, something very bad. So, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram recently said that inflationary More...
Collapse of dynasties–a Congress case study
This writer has recently been studying the subject of how empires, regimes and dynasties have collapsed in different parts of the world and in different ages. This is truly a Herculean task and has attracted the More...