Art Of Living and Vultures around it
It started in 2010. Five thousand volunteers daily came together and worked hard for rejuvenating the forgotten river Yamuna. No one came to help them. They named that movement as “Meri Dilli, Meri Yamuna”. They removed 512 tonnes of garbage from the same river. No one was in the picture that time. Now in 2016, in that same place Art Of Living More...
Liberal Hatred For Tulsi Gabbard
Question: whom does today’s Left-Liberal hate the most? The answer is easy- anyone with a position contrary to one held by them. After all, “disagreement from opposition as a proof of moral deficiency “is More...
Opposing the Left is Not “Right”-Part III:The Debate
[contextly_sidebar id=”X5xtKc4HIThiWmzo5PMf1mQdB9tgq5wi”] My two posts led to a vigorous debate with a friend who is also a mainstream journalist. You will see how the leftwing media and their supporters More...
Opposing the Left is Not “Right”-Part II: More to Mahishasura
[contextly_sidebar id=”eolQRkRaTezOzNMco6G0eQTVvzMCC1NM”] A debate ensued, which led me to write another post on February 19: This time it was it was for all and sundry. I am reproducing it in entirety More...
The New Delhi World Culture Festival and the Legacy of the American Civil Rights Movement
New Delhi will be hosting a momentous event from March 11-13th, the World Culture Festival. In the words of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the moving force behind the festival: “We are inspired to continue with more More...
Opposing the Left is Not “Right”- Part I: A letter to students
Two Facebook Posts and a Debate with a Journalist Supporting Indian Left-Wing Thinking—A Case study It all started with the JNU row. Being an academic in the United States who teaches and researches in the areas More...
Just The Facts, Prof. Chomsky
Dear Prof. Chomsky, I first heard your name when, as a Computer Science student at IIT Kanpur, I studied the Chomsky-Normal Form for specifying formal languages. Many years later, I came across “Manufacturing More...
Selection Engineering: Political Filters in JNU’s Admission Process
[Warning: What you are about to read is not satire. The questions that appear in this article are taken from actual question papers of the Jawaharlal Nehru University. Some readers may find the contents of this More...
False equivalence to hide self loathing by Ram Guha
I had a colleague once who hailed from a small village and whose father was an average farmer. The father worked hard to put his son through school and good engineering college. The son got a good job and like many More...
Contours of the Death Penalty Debate – Part II
[contextly_sidebar id=”iw9pvAVxoLdEnSK2eUAPc6dK3P6Uf7Gk”] Mitigating Circumstances The mitigating circumstances with regards to Yakub were noted by the Supreme Court as : Since these two aspects are More...