Terror in the name of God?
There is no doubt that we have a problem in today’s world. It’s a big problem. The strange thing is that apparently we don’t want to solve it, because we close our eyes to the problem and to its root cause. This closing of our eyes is officially endorsed by almost all governments in the world and is seen as politically correct. Naturally, there More...
Countering the Idea of India camp: Insights from 19th Century Foreigners
Today, the mainstream dominant discourse on India and Indology revolves around what is known as “the idea of India”. Many books, academic papers and peer-reviewed articles have been written challenging the legitimacy More...
The Zombie lies of Left-Liberals
In the aftermath of the extremely acrimonious debate over the Obamacare bill in the United States, talk show host Bill Maher coined the term ‘zombie lies’ to denote those points that the Republican party refused More...
Ten things that define Adarsh-Liberal’s Idea of India
Ever since Narendra Modi’s government came to power in 2014, a bunch of intellectuals, liberals, seculars, and senior editors have been saying that the ‘Idea of India’ is under threat. No matter what happens, More...
(South) Asians? Who? Us? – Astitva and Asmita
It has been another typical fortnight. Whilst the Indian Space Research Organization ISRO successfully launched its first ever “Made in India” space shuttle, the Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV-TD), , scholars, More...
Pakistani Travelogue-II: Pakistani Perceptions of India
[contextly_sidebar id=”hfSO3toJTSSxNwE5BxJ1HU7EJttBiDDT”] Gargantuan government edifices glittered behind freshly painted wrought-iron fences, glamorous palaces to Pakistani politics in marble and brass More...
Remembering Veer Savarkar
The late 19th century, was when India was awakening to its spiritual heritage, its pride of place among the nations of the world, during ancient times. People like Dayananda and Swami Vivekananda were spreading More...
Decolonizing India’s Education
India is witnessing a disparity in education between the haves and the have-notes, between the 20 percent, who study in English medium private schools and the 80 percent, who study in vernacular government schools. More...
Bali’s Water Temples: Understanding Technology in Dharmic Rituals
In the post-modernist world, the word “Technology” has come to be associated with skills that are usually antithesis to anything that is traditional and ritualistic. This contextualization of “Technology” More...
Did BJP miss a beat in Chakrata? An alternate view of incident
On May 20, 2016, Outgoing BJP Rajya Sabha MP Tarun Vijay was pelted with stones while coming out of the Silgur Devta temple, in Uttarakhand’s Chakrata region. According to media reports, Tarun Vijay, along with More...