Remembering a Karmayogi
Our one meeting ‘How old are you?’ Sitaramji asked me. ‘Forty’. ‘You are younger than my younger son’, he said affectionately. Thus began my first and only meeting with Sitaramji in November 1993. I was on my way to Manali along with my family and happily foregone sightseeing in Delhi in order to be able to meet him. As a bonus, Sitaramji More...
Dharma, not Wing politics should guide India
The story goes that the terms Right wing (RW) & Left wing (LW) were first used in the French Parliament soon after the bloody revolution. The right-wingers were cultured, mostly rich and more importantly, didn’t More...
Veer Savarkar: Myths and Truths
Today marks the one thirty second birth anniversary of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, the man who coined the term Hindutva, the much maligned word in Indian socio-political discourse. It has been almost five decades More...
Invaders in the mind: A model of the colonial psyche
The Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) is the lynchpin of ancient Indian historiography. It dictates that India is divided into two dominant races of the Aryans in the north and the Dravidians in the south. The Aryans More...
Evangelists dub Yoga a Dark Art
A famous verse of the New testament (from Luke 23:34) goes something like “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Those words were said to be uttered by Jesus when he was More...
Open Letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on completing a year
“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded More...
2019 and beyond: Narendra Modi has laid the foundations for a long-term BJP Government
Everyone has their opinions on how the Narendra Modi government has performed in this past one year. Or not performed. However, my reading of the Modi government’s performance over this one year is straight from More...
Bollywood as a mix of junk food and Islamism
We eat junk food with the full knowledge that it is, well, junk. We crave it, gorge on it, all in the name of taste and don’t care how much of a land whale and waste dump it makes out of us. We justify it even More...
Arvind Kejriwal’s endless sanctimony
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has crafted a new political philosophy. According to the Kejriwal School of Thought, governance is a mix of reckless populism, sanctimonious statements, and a variety of theatrical More...
One year of the Narendra Modi Government: An assessment
Last year’s General Election was a mandate for hope, and the promise of a truly post-Congress India, shown by just one man: Narendra Modi. The current Prime Minister rode to power on the back of his image as a More...