That 7-Page letter goofed up your case, Your Honour
The mutiny of four Supreme Court judges in New Delhi on Friday, 12th January 2018 is already history now. But a group of four senior Supreme Court judges speaking to the media about the adversarial contents of their 7-page letter addressed to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) released on the occasion made it a Black Friday in the annals of our judiciary. What More...
Myopic Pedagogy: Prejudicial Representations of India in U.S. Social Studies Classrooms
When negative stereotypes about India are taught as fact in American classrooms, students of Indian heritage may be adversely impacted as they struggle to work out their identity in a pluralistic, predominately More...
The Politics of British Orientalism: Evangelism and the Aryan-Dravidian Dichotomy
Knowledge is Political Any knowledge that does not strictly fall within the boundaries of the physical sciences can be, and often is, intensely political. By this I chiefly mean two things. Firstly, its character More...
Judgement Day: Tales From The Judicial Chambers
Sometime in the year 1997, Metropolitan Magistrate Santushti Chauhan (name changed) committed an act that will forever be a blot on her mostly exemplary career. Arriving for work around 8.30am at Delhi’s Tis Hazari More...
Why And How Fake News Is Created
The “unnamed high-level source” is the bread and butter of the media worldwide. For India’s pre-paid and post-paid journalists, the source – often fictitious – is oxygen itself. Scan the daily papers and More...
India’s dire contemporary challenges
It seems difficult for observers to abstract from the immediate hurly burly of daily political life and the fascination it evokes to focus on complex long-term processes of historic significance that occur periodically More...
Ayodhya: An Ahistorical argument for Ram Temple
“All the towns and villages that lay on their way were the envy of the cities of the gods. The lakes and rivers of the gods lauded those lakes and rivers in which Rama bathed. The tree of paradise gave glory to More...
Westernization, sin and sexuality
As Indian films and television increasingly show sexual content there are plenty of commentators extolling this as progress in catching up with the “sexually liberated” West. But is the West truly sexually liberated? More...
Kashmir Al-Qaeda affiliate promotes medieval Islamic worldviews
The medieval Islamic jurists divided the world into two sharply different categories: ‘Dar-ul-Harb’ (land of war) and ‘Darul Islam’ (abode of Islam). The two exclusivist Islamist terms are synonymous More...
Untruth and Ugliness – The Deities Liberals and Radicals Venerate
“Persephone, like the toads, always rises from the dead…” I find both communists and liberals very disagreeable. I do not like them. This is because, as I sought to argue in an article kindly published by More...