Ten Habits of Highly Successful Indian Liberal Intellectuals
1) Every time you come across an article, blog post or anything that has the word ‘Hindu’ in it, describe the post as ‘vile and disgusting’, regardless of the actual context. Express your hatred for Hinduism constantly and diligently, in ways that can be subtle or obvious depending upon the context. However, do not forget to mention More...
Nehru’s India: A Country That Is Not A Nation
Democracy in a New Nation In 1831, a twenty-six year old French nobleman by name Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville landed in America carrying a commission from the French monarch Louis-Philippe (of the More...
ORPs In Jharkhand
[contextly_sidebar id=”oD6vdstCcFrRNSa9GCTAh2ciwDhZsI29″] In the previous post, we have noted that the decline in the share of Indian Religionists (IRs), and the corresponding rise of Muslims and Christians, More...
Fifty Different Tellings of the Quran
In the recent cacophony on ‘intolerance,’ many left-wing writers, journalists and intellectuals routinely mentioned the A K Ramanujan article ‘Three hundred Ramayanas’. To them, its removal from the Delhi More...
18 Months Down: An Objective Analysis of the Modi Government
On the eve of the 16th Lok Sabha election results, a group of friends—many of whom had quit jobs or taken time off from businesses to volunteer for the BJP—decided to meet at a resto-bar in Delhi’s Connaught More...
And you Thought Modi Was Doing Nothing?
After Narendra Modi became Prime Minister in May 2014, a lot of people have bemoaned the lack of action against the corrupt and no convictions. But the Indian system is slow and Modi cannot singlehandedly change More...
Ashoka And Pushyamitra Sunga: A Study In Mythmaking
Let us elaborate one example of pro-Buddhist bias in modern indologist scholarship. It has to do with a story of alleged Hindu persecution of Buddhism by Pushyamitra, a general in the service of the declining Maurya More...
Practice What You Preach
When I was in the third standard, we were taught a story from the Mahabharata. All Kaurava and Pandava brothers are taking lessons and are asked to memorize them. All the 105 boys memorized their lessons well except More...
Lessons From BJP’s Bihar Election Fiasco
Reams have already been written on the drubbing received by the BJP in the crucial Bihar assembly election. Let me attempt to add my own two cents’ worth to the series of postmortem reports that have been More...
Open Letter To Indian Cricketers
Dear Indian Cricketers, I am a fan of your game and have been following it ever since Sachin got the bloody nose in Pakistan. I vividly remember that Chetan Sharma delivery and that Javed Miandad six. Images of More...