Moving Away from Macaulayite Education
The fact that both English education and the mindless premium placed on the English language in India is at the root of several important problems faced by India since Independence is a given. However, I am not suggesting that English be removed from education, but only emphasizing that it is necessary to broaden the opportunities, which in turn will More...
Behind the Hostility in Academia towards Narendra Modi: An Interview with Vamsee Juluri
The petition by several US-based academics (mostly of Indian origin) against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit to Silicon Valley has understandably garnered enormous attention. Counter petitions More...
The Five Testifiers
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced plans to visit Silicon Valley later this month, a petition of sorts was floated by a bunch of US-based academics urging Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to boycott the Prime More...
Saba Naqvi’s Intentional Ignorance on Raza Academy
In the second week of September, a fatwa(Islamic decree) was issued at the behest of Mumbai-based Islamist organisation Raza Academy against Oscar-winner Indian music director A. R. Rahman and Iranian filmmaker More...
Recalling the Indus Water Treaty or Nehru’s Sixth Blunder
Immediately after last month’s aborted Indo-Pak NSA-level talks, a participant in a Rajya Sabha TV debate said “Let’s see how their Water Talks go.” “Water Talks? Indo-Pak Water Talks? What, pray. are More...
Manage Hindu Temples Along the Lines of Sikh Gurdwaras
Sikh Gurdwaras are one of the best maintained places of worship among all religious places. Of course, one may say that nothing less than the best is to be expected from the Sikhs, and it is true that community’s More...
The 1965 War: Why India Quit When it was Winning
On the 50th anniversary of India’s 22-day war with Pakistan, we examine why India agreed to end the war when it was close to a decisive victory. In May 1964, Indian Defence Minister Yashwantrao Chavan made a visit More...
Discrimination Narrative as a Means to End Private Property
In an edit page article in the Indian Express dated 10 September 2015, A G Noorani takes further the ongoing Leftist campaign to turn India into a socialist police state with the help of courts: “This is More...
Caste, critique and colonial consciousness: A response to Meena Dhanda
Foreword The article below is a response to Meena Dhanda’s article “Anti-castism and misplaced nativism: Mapping caste as an aspect of race in the July/August 2015 issue of the British based journal Radical More...
Did Hamid Gul Really Offer India Peace?
On 28 August, an article provocatively titled “When Hamid Gul offered India peace” (and without a question mark) was published by the Marxist Indian newspaper The Hindu. Coming soon after the cancellation More...