Dalrymple’s Anarchy- II: Hit and Miss
Earlier we covered why we should reject the idea that the East India Company was just a company that needed better regulation. Once it is understood that it was not “just a humble company” then phrases such as “one of the largest corporate windfalls in history”, “(Bengal)…a piece of financial happenchance”, “supreme act of corporate More...
Modi’s neo-challenge: AAP’s ‘soft Hindutva’, deeper marginalisation of Congress
The Delhi election mandate has given the traditional Modi-bashers and the secular brigade a plenty of reasons to cheer. As one analyses the poll results and tries to look at things that will unfold, it may not More...
Dalrymple’s Anarchy-I: Below Expectations
A few years ago, this writer was travelling through Zimbabwe and happened to meet a European in his mid-twenties, who had just come in from Angola. Soon the topic veered into how his country Portugal had ruled More...
That Bogey called ‘Brahminism’
Blame it on the Brahmin Many readers might remember this poster that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was photographed holding while attending an event in our country – it carried the illustration of a young girl and More...
Game Changer: Peace Bonanza and Development – Modi’s trump card for Assam
A tryst with peace, destiny and development. A festive atmosphere prevailed in Kokrajhar to celebrate the Bodo accord. The All Bodo Student’s Union (ABSU) and NDFB organised a bike rally and native residents More...
Anti-CAA Protests: Is it a test case for Indian Muslims to find political worth?
Since over the past one month, a series of protests have erupted across the length and breadth of the country that saw an unprecedented turnout of one community on More...
Letter to a Moderate Muslim
This is the concluding part of the series Unfinished Agendas of Radical Islam. In this I don’t discuss any case but address the myth of the moderate Muslim. Dear Moderate Muslim, I am sure this open More...
Self-Sacrifice: Hindu Sheep in the Liberal Church
Symptom “Of the 7000 languages spoken today, fully half are not being taught to children. Effectively, unless something changes, they will disappear within our lifetimes. There are those who quite innocently More...
Towards a Vocabulary and an Aesthetic of Nationalism- II
During the heyday of Indian nationalism at the close of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, the nationalistic idiom that our poets had forged may be divided into two broad categories: one, More...
The Fall of Liberalism in India
The political-social doctrine of liberalism, that once flourished across major parts of the globe, is in troubled waters throughout the world. Once the driving force of western political and social discourse, the More...