Lakshmi on the BBC
This is a comment on the BBC In Our Time programme, on Lakshmi, hosted by Lord Melvin Bragg broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 6 October 2016. Without making any statement about the sincerity of the presenter or those academics (Jessica Frazier, University of Kent; Jacqueline Suthren Hirst, University of Manchester; Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University) More...
A Theory of Polytheism
This essay is based on the first chapter of the book Of God and Gods by Jan Assmann, titled ‘Understanding Polytheism’. Assmann begins with the very interesting comment that as yet there has been no valid coherent More...
Duplicity, Ignorance & Fear Causing Dirty Politics Around “Surgical Strikes”
The political Opposition of India must be held guilty of dirtying the lustre of our rarest or rare “surgical strikes” undertaken in the wee hours of September 29, 2016. That was when some 200 Special Forces More...
India before the British Conquest
India is a living civilization. No other nation has a continuance of philosophies, rituals, cultures and traditions in the manner in which India has it. Even after thousands of years, of which there were centuries More...
Culture Wars against Hindus
The foremost source of unrelenting and egregious slander against Hindus is India’s film industry, led by Bollywood. Pakistani marauders were halted at the border in 1948 and repudiated every time subsequently, More...
Army’s surgical strikes on PoJK are an opportunity to change the narrative about India
Certain events in a nation’s history are etched deep in its collective consciousness and have the potential to set the tone for future narratives. Quite often, we Indians have squandered away the positive opportunities More...
Why Russia-Pakistan ties should not vex India
How’s this for timing? On September 23, as many as 250 troops from the Indian Army’s Kumaon Regiment arrived in Vladivostok for INDRA-2016, an 11-day joint exercise with an equal number of Russian Army troops. More...
Is Uri the beginning of the end for Pakistan?
Immediately after the Pakistan-backed terrorist attacks in Mumbai, November 26-29, 2008, my country dispatched Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to New Delhi “to ease tensions.” I was furious and asked if More...
Why Pakistan is able to Raise the K-Rant Again & Again
Nawaz Sharif’s speech at the UN General Assembly on 21st September of 2016 would have been foolish and laughable for any Prime Minister. It certainly tickled those Indians, who are familiar with what Pakistan More...
Perception about Kashmir unrest is the handiwork of spin doctors
Oftentimes perceptions are contrary to the truths. This happens, when systematic efforts are made to create a smokescreen to hide the real picture and then dole out camouflage as reality. Nowhere is this more visible More...