The Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), 2010 – A Primer
Introduction There has been a long tradition of non-profit organizations in India, known as Non-Government Organizations (henceforth referred to in this paper as NGOs) accepting financial contributions from entities – both individual and institutional – to conduct their operations. In 2009, the Home Ministry, under Shri P. Chidambaram, made More...
Should Hindus Be Offended at the Republican Party Ad Featuring Lord Ganesha?
On the occasion of Ganesha Chaturthi, celebrations of which festival concluded just a week ago, the Fort Bend County (Texas) branch of the Republican Party in the USA had published a rather cheeky advertisement More...
Anti-Statism in the Indian Media and Academia: An Investigation of Sources
What is ‘anti-statism’? What do I mean by ‘anti-statism’? It usually is defined as an intense dislike for any form of intrusion by the state into any aspect of human existence – social, economic, or personal. More...
Ambitious campaign in UK to reverse colonial-era plunder
In a unique and unprecedented campaign, India Pride Project has demanded that the UK return back Indian heritage that has been forcibly extracted and moved to the UK. In a novel protest, IPP volunteers scanned London More...
Carnatic music: Fighting the Hijack
A recent statement by a group of activists, writers, and some artists, speciously titled “reclaiming our heritage,” purports to defend freedom of speech and artistic expression in the context of the recent flap More...
Who is the real minority in India?
“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes More...
Who is disrobing Draupadi?
The first edition of Bharat Shakti Pondy Litfest 2018, Puducherry was a special one because it was the first of its kind of festival bringing together some great minds of India and abroad discussing our rich heritage More...
Dangerous Liaisons: When your Father is an Urban Naxal
In 1991 my father, a lifelong communist, took me to the holy of holies of the CPM – AKG Centre in Trivandrum. This is literally the Kerala communist’s war room, where senior comrades work, eat, sleep – and More...
Goa – Fun Masks On Tortured Histories
Goa is magical; and more so in the monsoon months when we first visited. The smallest state in the country with the highest per capita income is a jewel in the crown of Indian tourism. For many foreign nationals, More...
Dangerous country or dangerous study?
The Reuters Foundation (taken over by Thomson Corporation in 2008 and thus renamed as the Thomson Reuters Foundation) was established to “raise the standards in journalism worldwide through media training and More...