The TIME needs to know that times have changed
When one reads the article titled ‘Can the World’s Largest Democracy Endure Another Five Years of a Modi Government?’ published in the American weekly magazine TIME (9 May 2019)[1], one is reminded of Mahatma Gandhi’s comments on the book authored by Kathrine Mayo in 1927 which was written solely with the aim of demeaning Hinduism and India. More...
Blasphemy of Aasia Bibi: How Pakistan’s Christians went from cheerleaders of Partition to its victims
Pakistani Christian woman Aasia Noreen, who spent nine years on death row after being accused of blasphemy, is a free person at last, but her community is everywhere in chains in Pakistan. Christians, who make up More...
The Oxbridge-Harvard syndrome
Narendra Modi’s somehow well-aimed quip about the contrast between Harvard and hard work crossed my mind while sitting recently at a student café outside the LSE library, the extraordinarily precious access to More...
What Are We? A Contemplation on the Hindu Identity – 3
[contextly_sidebar id=”CcLd9tw4L5ODcRsU78rtyA429cUckx3N”] In any discussion on the Hindu identity, it is important to note that the word ‘Hindu’ has been used by pre-modern foreigners as a blanket More...
The Economist Or the Pulp Fiction?
In its issue dated 4th May 2019, the Economist, London has published an editorial[1] by Anonymous which makes various baseless allegations against Indian Prime Minister Modi. It is obvious that the editor has written More...
Reaching out to Teens with Indic Message: Interview with Soumya Aggarwal
No nation, no civilization can be built without its youth, for it is the kids in their teen years who go on to shape the future of a country or a civilization. Therefore it is vital that for the revival of Indic More...
Controlling Disinformation And Agitprop – Lessons From A Tiny Democratic City State
For most professional Indians, the general perspective on Singapore ranges from the inanely adulatory stance about how nice and well-administered the city-state is (“clinically sterile” is a common phrase), More...
Technology & Ethics: Negotiating with challenges in Modern World
Recently I was invited to deliver a talk at my alma mater, National Institute of Engineering (NIE), Mysuru to a group of students and faculty from the Department of Computer Science on the theme of technology. Having More...
Lesson from Tiananmen Square: Communism is evil but India must reject Western narrative
The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests are often described in the left liberal media as a pro democracy popular movement that was brutally crushed by the Chinese communist government. The student-led protests kicked More...
Auroville: The Dream and the Nightmare
Two articles recently appeared, one in Deccan Chronicle by M.R. Venkatesh, the other on IndiaFacts by Raman Reddy, reviewing a recently published book, Auroville: A Dream Hijacked, by Nirmalya Mukherjee. These three More...