What Ails Amartya Sen?
The former head of the Nalanda University, Amartya Sen writing in the New York Review makes wild and sweeping allegations against the Narendra Modi Government even as he conceals his own record of not showing accounts for the massive ₹2727 crores financial package allocated to it over a period of 12 years. Equally, Amartya Sen also has no response More...
Historical Hindu Responses to Abrahamism
The Hindu encounter with Abrahamism began with the initial expansions of the second (Christ cult) and third (Mohammedanism) versions. Hindus were among the early victims of the second Abrahamism in the holy war More...
Chetan Bhagat as a Symbol of Deracination
I have never read any book by Chetan Bhagat. When a friend asked me what I think of him, my response was factual – that I don’t think of him. It does not mean I dislike him or his books, it is just that he More...
Examining the Quran
This is the second part of the IndiaFacts series analysing the Quran through a Dharmic perspective. Continuing from the introductory essay in this series, we can now begin to examine the key verses of the Quran. Bismi More...
The Battle for Bihar
The battle for Bihar is heating up. This is a ‘do or die’ election for both Nitish Kumar and his new friend and ally Lalu Prasad Yadav. While it is a battle of survival for this “grand alliance” More...
Analysing the Quran through a Dharmic Perspective: Introduction
This essay is the first part of a series that analyses the Quran using a Dharmic perspective. It is a translation of the Bengali booklet titled “Allah Ke” (Who is Allah?) published in the early 1930s, authored More...
America’s Most Desperate: Why are 50 Million Americans Starving?
Americans live in the world’s wealthiest nation yet close to 50 million struggle to put food on the table. Compounding this is Washington’s apathy towards the condition of middle and lower income Americans devastated More...
Amnesty International’s Christine Mehta: Proud to break the law
Broke the law, and proud of it. That seems to be the attitude of Christine Mehta, an employee of Amnesty International who as an American citizen applied and received the status of an OCI. In an article in the Hindu More...
Remembering the Good Doctor
Note : The following is a tribute to the late great physician and former Chief Minister of West Bengal Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy whose 130th birth and 50th death anniversaries took place yesterday. A good doctor always More...
The Indian Press is Loathsome
People deserve the government they get. That’s generally true, but in the particular case where the government is democratically elected, as H L Mencken observed, “the common people know what they want, and More...