A response to the politics of Hindu nationalism
The Conversation is running a series on the background of elections in India. Episode 2 of the podcast is about the politics of Hindu nationalism[1]. Like the Podcast 1, the podcast 2 lacks depth. In the name of academic rigour and journalistic flair, The Conversation has been pushing anti-Hindu, anti-Modi and anti- BJP/RSS narrative for some years More...
Notre Dame: Christianity and the Genocide of Gods in France
The fiery devastation of the Notre Dame cathedral of Paris evoked strange reactions among Indians. Firstly, you had hysterical anchors in the English language media providing live coverage 24/7. After all, if you More...
The unravelling of India
“Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism” Sri Aurobindo Introduction Countries and empires More...
The Notre Dame Fire – Why it strikes a chord in many Indian hearts and minds
For the last few days, the world’s attention has been riveted on a terrible tragedy that has struck one country and one city. The fire that engulfed the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has saddened and grieved millions More...
The Tashkent Files: A Review
Last evening I was told by a colleague of mine that finally The Tashkent Files, Vivek Agnihotri’s latest feature film, has been cleared for a release and that it was being screened at one of the movie theatres More...
Intellectualism as power and intellectuals as mercenaries
We have been told that it is power which produces knowledge, a truism of sorts in academia. Thus social norms are questioned as sites of domination: family values denounced as patriarchy, religious virtues dismissed More...
Falcon down: Why Pakistan is desperate to fake the F-16 dogfight
The Pakistani military sucks at fighting – it has lost all four wars against India – but when it comes to lying, it’s in a league of its own. Throughout its short history Pakistan has attempted to hide its More...
2019 General Elections: The Fight for number 2
Are you perplexed by the fact that Congress is not in alliance in UP? Or that they will be fighting against TMC in Bengal? Or why it allows people like BK Hariprasad who claim that Pulwama attack was ‘Match Fixing’ More...
Netflix’s Patriot Act on Indian Elections – A Take Down
Netflix’s Patriot Act episode on Indian Elections by Hasan Minhaj on March 17th, 2019 has already gone viral by now eliciting vociferous reaction from almost all viewers some aligning with his thoughts and More...
Kashmir – A survey of its history, geography and demographic evolution
Kashmir is in the news, and it has been in the news for 70 years now. Yet its mindshare among Indians is still somewhat low and its centrality to Indian civilization and culture is woefully under-appreciated. There More...