Book Review: Shivaji the Great Maratha by Ranjit Desai
The book is available for purchase from Amazon. I believe that the most important national problem that Indians have to solve is not as such poverty, nor strategic weakness, nor terrorism. Of course these are huge problems and India must solve them at some point in order to achieve its full potential. However, these problems are all offshoots of the More...
Pragmatic Poets: John Dewey & Rabindranath Tagore
As the turbulent 20th century ended and the next millennium commenced, an analytical catharsis, stimulated by postmodern theories, catalyzed the field of curriculum and instruction. Traditional pedagogical methodologies More...
Padmavat: Jauhar, Rights, Liberty and Values
In a recent article by Swara Bhaskar “At The End of Your Magnum Opus… I Felt Reduced to a Vagina – Only”, she criticizes the act of Jauhar and terms it disgraceful and against women rights. She casts doubt More...
Wrecking Machine: When the Pagan Mongols Nearly Wiped Out Islam
There is a clear polarization among Hindus and Muslims when it comes to the history of Muslim rule in India. It doesn’t matter how barbaric a Muslim ruler was, in the eye of the Muslim he had some redeeming qualities. More...
What’s Love Gotta Do with it? Valentine’s Day & Fringe Groups’ Agenda
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live. – Victor Hugo When it comes to the talking about love no other country More...
Hinduism vs Hindutva: What is the debate about
Shashi Tharoor is an erudite author and his English prose is eminently readable. He generally makes sense in his views and opinions on many issues, in spite of being a Congress politician. But his recent book “Why More...
Yoga as the Colonized Subject
Within the serene, spare yoga studios across Europe and America, Yoga has become so assimilated into everyday language and activity, that to the predominantly Caucasian practitioners, the idea that violence and More...
Padman – The Real Story of How He Shot to Fame by Selling Shame
“If we want to give our daughters Sanitary Pads, we’d much rather buy the good quality ones available in the market. What do you think we are…….trying to get rid of some cheap stuff by dumping it on our More...
Cordel Church Scam: Judicial Corruption
In our earlier report “Cordel Church Scam: Another Can of Worms?” dated 28th of April 2017, we had exposed a mega scam from Cordel Church, Mangaluru, Karnataka, which had shaken the conscience of the Christian More...
Kanchi Seer Should Not Bow Down to Prejudice-Filled Tamil ‘Anthem’
Sri Vijayendra Sarasvati, the designated successor to the current pontiff of the Kanchi Mutt, has been the target of vicious media attacks spearheaded by the Dravidianists and leftists. In a recent function which More...