Another Godhra in the Making?
I am beginning to worry about India’s national security in the wake of the Pakistani terrorist attacks on Gurdaspur and Udhampur as well as rumbles about cyber security, and the Taliban advance on Kunduz. Gurdaspur terror attack I hark back to NDA1 and the concentrated efforts then to defeat the government; if anything, the malign conjunction of forces More...
India’s Thought Cops are Angry with Modi
In the last week of September at Dadri not far from the Indian capital, an angry mob lynched to death Mohammad Akhlaq over allegations that a cow was slaughtered and he ate beef. In the 1970s and 1980s in Bihar More...
The Ideological Affiliations of The Caravan
[contextly_sidebar id=”YNvoNQhNb9qCIqwQPn7ekOc8wj1y3Xsn”] This is the third part of the series on anti-Hinduism as an industry written by Pankaj Saxena. The choice of the editorial team of The Caravan More...
Beef Ban Bombs Explode Ignorance
Today is the birth anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi, the man whose several written views on the cow and its slaughter were found worthy of compilation in a book of his Epigrams by S.R.Tikekar. Among the gems therein More...
Gandhi: A Modern Medievalist
There can be no doubt that Gandhiji was a towering personality of 20th century India. I was raised listening to the enchanting lines of the song of the film ‘Jagrati’, “De di hame aazaadi binaa kadga binaa More...
Media Hypocrisy over Dadri
What just happened in Dadri is very tragic, if you go by the media reports. A Muslim man was dragged out of his house and lynched by an enraged Hindu mob because he and his family were suspected of eating beef in More...
Mystery Behind the Netaji Mystery
The real mystery is who concocted the story of Netaji’s death in plane crash that never took place and then tried to cover up the truth for 70 years. By releasing the files relating to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, More...
Caravan 2.0: Why a Defunct Leftist Magazine was Revived
This is the second part of the series on anti-Hinduism as an industry written by Pankaj Saxena. [contextly_sidebar id=”IB0suNqxgeaJq5EDDJ8NHhzwZHdkvutB”] In 2009, a long-defunct leftist magazine, The More...
Skills for Life and Livelihood: Revive the Old Approach to Education
Education in India has always been a symbol of pride and heritage. Delivery of quality education to all has been a prolonged effort post-independence. Presently, India is one of the world’s fastest growing economies More...
Book Review:- India: A Sacred Geography—A Disturbing New Front
Diana L. Eck “is professor of comparative religion and Indian studies at Harvard University and is Master of Lowell House and Director of the Pluralism Project.” She has written an atlas of sorts of More...