Reflections on Hindu Spiritual and Service Fair 2016
The Hindu Spiritual and service fair organized annually across the country in several cities offers a kaleidoscope view of various Hindu organizations and their activities. The HSSF fair comes to Bangalore usually in the month of December. This year the fair took place at the National College Grounds, Basavanagudi between December 14 and December 18. Hindu More...
India after the British rule
[contextly_sidebar id=”AZcjC5m2C7qkZ8mHU4N9aQ2SnWJvWy4I”] In the preceding articles, we have briefly explored various financial and psychological atrocities committed by the British on the Indian people. More...
Effects of Demonetisation: A Brief review
Demonetisation has been the biggest economic measure that India has seen post-Independence. It has caused and will result in many social, political and economic effects. Some people criticised the move in the beginning More...
Winter Solstice and Christmas – A Journey into pre-Christian Traditions
December 21st is the Winter Solstice, when we have the shortest day and the longest night. It is the day of great significance to the ancient traditions of the world, in ancient Bharata and in the rest of the world. More...
Fraudsters, Charlatans and Hidden Jihadis Masquerading as Liberal Muslims
Increasingly, it appears to me that fraudsters, charlatans and hidden jihadis are posing themselves as liberal Muslim intellectuals in India. On the issue of Uniform Civil Code (UCC), some articles and tweets tend More...
Book Review- ‘Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left’ by Roger Scruton
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton can be purchased from Amazon. The left brand of philosophy can be very obscure and is subjected to random interpretation depending on the More...
Call for the trial of Manmohan Singh and his Foreign Policy team
I have strong reasons to call for the trial of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and key members of his foreign policymaking team such as Shivshankar Menon, Salman Khurshid and M.K. Narayanan for treason against More...
The Conflict between Tradition and Modernity in India
One can hardly deny that Aatish Taseer writes beautifully, but it is a beauty that has now become so commonplace that it fails to make an impression. It invites you to put your trust in the gorgeous weave of words More...
Book Review: Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism by Jakob De Roover
Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism (Religion and Democracy), Jakob De Roover, 296 Pages, Oxford University Press (14 September 2015). Two years ago, on one fine afternoon, I happened to run into a congregation More...
Understanding Animal cruelty: Why compassion to animals is not a cultural universal
Given that more than 10 billion animals get slaughtered every year, it should make us wonder what kind of an outlook, what worldview enables so much cruelty. Towards that end, I will herein be attempting a comparative More...