Will Sonia Gandhi be able to Ride the Sympathy Wave if she is Jailed?
Many are of the opinion that if the Narendra Modi government takes a tough stand against the various scams carried out by Sonia Gandhi and her henchmen and women, and if somehow she ends up in jail, she will ride on the sympathy wave and the Congress party will come back to power. Can this happen? There is a gloomy precedence. After the unparalleled More...
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa In Theory And Practice
Christopher Hitchens’ iconoclastic polemic against Mother Teresa makes for riveting reading. Uncomfortable questions are raised that beget even more uncomfortable answers. An icon suffers from the harsh gaze of More...
Barkha Dutt Now Targets Amazon
Like Britney (or was it Christina ?) Spears said “oops I did it again”. The large, pan India group of people who support Narendra Modi and the BJP or (trolls/thugs/Sanghis/Hindu Wahabists—take your pick) have More...
The Ongoing Crisis in Islam
After every major massacre perpetrated by Jihadists, the opinion space all over the world gets polarized between the two extremes. The liberals refuse to acknowledge any causal connection between the actions of More...
History, Pride and Textbooks
History is often called the new battlefield. It figures prominently in online columns and on television debates. Of late, there have been great observations by Dr. David Frawley and Sandeep Balakrishna in their More...
How The Grinch Stole Mithra-Jayanti
“So true is it that all transactions of pre-eminent importance are wrapped in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are More...
Deconstructing D D Kosambi: Myth and Reality
This is the first part of a series deconstructing Marxist historian and scholar D D Kosambi’s work, “Myth and Reality.” In 1962, the Marxist historian D D Kosambi published a work titled Myth and Reality: More...
Why Trump Haters Could Well End Up Making Him President
If you switched on the TV for the first time in ages last week, then you could be forgiven for thinking that America’s Donald Trump had declared World War 3 and millions are going to die soon. Checking CNN in More...
Sonia Gandhi’s Delusions
History, wrote Karl Marx, repeats itself—first as tragedy, second as farce. The Congress top brass seems to have taken the first part of the quote as gospel truth. Indira Gandhi lost massively in 1977, but sprung More...
I am a Hindu and I am Sick and Tired
I am a Hindu and I am sick and tired of my faith, my belief systems and my way of life being ridiculed, lampooned and distorted by self-professed ‘intellectuals’. Blatantly false and insulting terms More...