Geopolitical imperatives for modern India – I
It is a sad fact that foreign and security policies of independent India had not been sufficiently influenced by geopolitical concepts and logics, but rather more by ideological convictions, internal political considerations and personal affinities of its leaders. Let me just remind our readers of totally naive belief of Jawaharlal Nehru in “Indian-Chinese friendship”, More...
Why the Left Does Not Comprehend the Indian ‘Felt Community’
Some Theorists of the Nation and Nationalism How do nations emerge? What factors give rise to nationalisms? There is a considerable amount of theoretical literature on these issues and it is not possible to More...
Londonistan Rising: Why Britain Could Be The Next Pakistan
In early 1980, shortly after the Russians had invaded Afghanistan and installed a proxy regime, Britain took the lead in sparking an Islamic jehad in order to bait the bear. The plan was to bring Muslims from all More...
BHU SVDV Appointment: What Is at Stake
Let us make it clear at the outset that this article is not a denunciation of the individual assistant professor whose appointment at the Faculty of Sanskrit Vidya Dharma Vigyan (SVDV) department in Banaras Hindu More...
Ayodhya as a foreign policy issue
The recent Ramnath Goenka lecture by External Affairs Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar was a model of depth, nuance and sophistication. It contained everything I would have wished to propose myself as an international More...
Dharma Vigyan at BHU: Aims & Objectives of Mahamana
This article is an attempt at analyzing the current controversy regarding the appointment of a non-Hindu to the Sanskrit Vidya Dharma Vigyan (SVDV) department of the Benares Hindu University from the point of view More...
Crime and No Punishment
Beyond Belief: The Catholic Church and the Child Abuse Scandal is the title of David Yallop’s 2010 book, which joins his other fine investigative works about the criminal dealings of the Catholic Church, namely More...
Does India have a National Language?
The language issue is a thorny one. There is no ‘peaceful’ answer to it. No matter, what position you take, someone will come at you with a ton of bricks. Nehru made sure of this when he lobbied for Hindi as More...
Cultural casualty: Pakistan’s plunge towards Al-Bakistan
Pakistan is a country where the arrow of time is travelling backwards. In the ‘Land of the Pure’, Prime Minister Imran Khan promises to create a mythical seventh century Riyasat-e-Madina (1) yet Islamic demagogues More...
How India Can Thwart Pakistan’s Kartarpur Gambit
For Pakistan, the opening of the Kartarpur corridor is a strategic win. Reluctantly but consciously, India has succumbed to the pressure by Pakistan to open the border and operationalize a channel to allow Pakistan More...