How free India has wronged the legacy of Rashbehari Bose
The saga of Rashbehari Bose is that of an endless sequence of revolutionary attempts driven by a burning zeal for freedom. It started with dropping a bomb on Viceroy Hardinge in a regal ceremony held for celebrating the coronation of the British emperor. During the First World War, he led a major attempt to oust the British power from Indian soil, which More...
An Open Letter to Ananya Vajpeyi on Sanskrit
Dear Ananya, On a first look, I could have safely ignored your article published in World Policy Journal as just another leftist rant, but since you mentioned JNU and its Sanskrit center, I had to jot down some More...
Book Excerpt: Narendra Modi- The Game Changer
Narendra Modi was attending the funeral of photo journalist Gopal Bisht of Aaj Tak news channel in Delhi. It was 2 October 2001. Just a day before, Madhavrao Scindia* had died in a private plane crash along with More...
What stops me from speaking my mind- a common man’s open letter to Rama Guha
Dear Mr Guha, Even though I cannot claim to be your fan, or even someone who follows your writings seriously, I cannot help, but notice some similarities between us. Like you, I too have been a lifelong cricket More...
Manoharlal Sharma’s plea to Stop Pampering Kashmiri Separatists is an historic NIL
Advocate Manoharlal Sharma’s plea in the country’s apex court to stop the bountiful spending from the national exchequer on the separatist groups in the Kashmir Valley (see the list of top six separatists at More...
Civilizational Conflict: An analysis using Game Theory
To fully understand the conflict between civilizations, it is necessary to understand how conflict occurs between the two groups. When two or more groups exist in close spatial proximity to each other, a number More...
Cow Protection of Mahatma Gandhi – Appeasing Muslims and Bullying Dalits
Controversies about cow protection frequently emerge in Indian polity, and every time it does, the proponents and opponents of cow protection seek to bolster their respective cases by selectively quoting Mohandas More...
Amnesty India: Hypocrisy And Tyranny Of The Unelected
In season four, episode 11 of Boston Legal, the brilliant but quirky lawyer Jerry Espenson makes this opening statement arguing on behalf of a woman suing a law firm that encouraged her husband for seeking divorce: “I More...
Is BJP Hampering Hindu Revival?
Two years have passed, since the so called Hindu Nationalist Party, the BJP was elected with a whopping majority to the lower house of the Parliament, the Loka Sabha. The BJP was successful in creating an atmosphere More...
No Mr Devdutt Pattanaik, Patriarchy did not rise due to hermits!
The popular model of a patriarch is derived from the Abrahamic mythology. Hence the patriarch is a serial rapist. Jehovah the God of Abraham sure demands absolute submission. I can agree with Devadut Pattanaik (DP) More...