In search of the Orthodox Hindu
The phrase Orthodox Hindu is today possibly one of the more controversial phrases in the English language. It is instructional to note the origins of this phrase and how it has been used as a weapon for more than a century to denigrate the indigenous denizens of a 5000-year old ancient civilisation. A simple search for the phrase “orthodox hindu” More...
The Myth of beef-eating Hindu
In the past couple of years, whenever they get an opportunity, a few commies and the chrislamists in Kerala used to get charged upon their appetite for Beef. The English media used to play along by serving all More...
Seeds and Knowledge: How the Draft Seeds Bill degrades both
The central government has circulated the Draft Seeds Bill 2019, the text of which raises several red flags about the future of kisan rights, state responsibilities, the role of the private sector seed industry, More...
Why Didn’t Hindus Give Up Ram Mandir?
What do you say of a people who carry on a movement over a piece of land for over half a millennium? What explains that they neither forgot nor any amount of atrocities made them give up their claims on the land? More...
Letting falsehood spread is no virtue
“Why Indians had to suffer so much for the last 1000 years when they were generally good-natured and did not attack others?” someone asked Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. It was a question which troubled me too. He More...
Hungry Westerners: Why they should feed themselves and stop worrying about India
India is among the 45 countries that have “serious levels of hunger”, says the 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI). Of the 117 countries surveyed India is ranked 102, apparently being worse off than Bangladesh. More...
Need for a Dharmic Election Manifesto for British Elections
Dharmic communities have largely been ignored by British political parties. Their real interests have rarely been on the political agenda. The fault lies mainly with Dharmic communities, especially Hindus and associated More...
Equality vs. Nature: How Hierarchy can Help us Save the Planet
In my article on climate change, my focus on hierarchy instead of equality generated a lot of shocked questions and sometimes downright consternation. It was bound to. The fetish of equality has been made such More...
Myth of Hindu Pacifism
Since historic times, being known to be intolerant of adharma was a mark of the greatest honor among the Hindus. In the Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna declares the reason for his manifestation on this Earth: to destroy More...
What are we? The people of books, or of The Book!
Puttaparthi Narayanacharyulu (1914-1990), the great Telugu literary genius and poet was a polyglot adept in fourteen languages. This versatile man had had no formal academic qualifications. And thereby hangs a More...