The Modern Shalya-s
Whenever, one’s position gets endangered, it is natural to get indignant. I could feel the same anger in Devdutt Pattanaik‘s latest article critiquing PM Modi’s choice of Shalya to paint the opponents. There are two factual truths one could give it to the author – the observation that ‘Shalya’ search has shot up and that “mythological More...
Time is Ripe for Deeper Look at Indian Knowledge Systems
Last year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his work on Autophagy caused quite some excitement among Indians as it directly correlated with what we knew about Ekadasi Vrata and cellular More...
Book Review: Aadhaar, A Biometric History of India’s 12-Digit Revolution
Aadhaar, A Biometric History of India’s 12-Digit Revolution by Shankkar Aiyar is available for purchase on Amazon and Flipkart. This book is perhaps the most detailed and comprehensive biography of Aadhaar and More...
Maharashtra Loan Waiver: Bureaucratic Confusion & Corruption
The Maharashtra Government’s Loan Waiver Scheme has become a case of confusion worse confounded. First, on June 24, this year, the government announced a mega agri-loan waiver of Rs 34,022/- crores after a state-wide More...
Understanding Christian believers: Jews for Jesus
When I first realized that Christians believed in the doctrine of “exclusive salvation via Jesus” and that non-Christians were going to hell, it came as a shock to me as a child raised in the pluralistic milieu More...
Masters of Manipulation: Christianity’s Perception Manipulation vis-à-vis Hindus-1
“Déjà vu Feeling Once Again!” wrote a user on microblogging social media platform while posting a photograph of Catholic Christian leaders meeting UP CM Yogi Adityanath at his office in Lucknow. The media More...
The cow that saved the world
The Apocalypse of John or The Book of Revelation in The Bible is a veritable repository of the prophecies surrounding the Apocalypse and the Second Coming of Jesus and the ensuing thousand year old reign. It begins More...
Decolonizing the Indian Civil services-2
[contextly_sidebar id=”lvXzbemMsp3tREMJjxqUGVpPrPDSYh0x”]This a transcript of a talk delivered by Rajiv Malhotra Sociology: In the Sociology discipline, the very discipline is basically modern, based More...
Islamist cleric’s Hate Speech in Kolkata: Why Ulema silent?
The Ministry of Home Affairs, in its affidavit in the apex court, has asserted that the issue of Rohingyas fell under the exclusive domain of policy decision of the executive. It categorically stated that the “fundamental More...
China’s Tryst with Sanskrit as Area Studies: A Few Lessons on Diplomacy for India
Policymakers have a lot to learn from historians and language experts. So do diplomats. Unless the policymakers of a country like India – which is surrounded by aggressive, imperialist nations on three sides – More...