Britain’s Daughters and America’s Daughters
A foreigner-made documentary called “India’s Daughter” is much in the news. What is clear is that the Government of India supported and cooperated in its production on the express understanding that the film was “being made purely for social purpose without any commercial interest”. There is enough now in the public domain to infer strong More...
Cultural stereotypes, rapes, and German cannibalism
Note: I posted the following letter on Twitter, as a satirical response to stereotyping about Indian men by a German professor, who was supported by German media. Disclaimer: This is satire about stereotyping. More...
India’s Daughter: A Reader’s Response
To The Editor IndiaFacts Dear Sir I am attaching a letter on the aforesaid subject matter of your article titled India’s Daughter and Richard Dawkins’ Racism. If possible, please publish the same in your web-site More...
India’s Daughter and Richard Dawkins’ Racism
The BBC documentary India’s Daughter announces that every 20 minutes a woman is raped in India. It characterizes Indian society as inherently patriarchal and misogynistic. We shouldn’t tolerate a single incident More...
This Women’s Day a big shout out to the stay-at-home mom
It’s a Sunday and she’s got up maybe a little later than usual but not late enough to forget cuddling her grand kids and playing with them in the bed. She makes tea for everyone, cooks breakfast, chats with More...
#IndiasDaughter: Dear FOE advocates, this too revolts us
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Conformity as History: A review of Ramachandra Guha’s Makers of Modern India
In post-Independent India, conformism to the received wisdom is the key to “glory” in social sciences/historical studies, and deviation leads to guillotine. Ramachandra Guha is fully conscious of this More...
Exploring the history of Hindu festivals: the ancient strands of Holākā
In Hindu tradition there is a clear demarcation of at least three distinct classes of ritual observances: 1) The most conservative of these are the śrauta rituals that deviate little from their Vedic prototype More...
Killing the feminine: Misogyny in Christianity
“She can show you the world we come from. There’s no green there. They killed their Mother, and they’re gonna do the same thing here.” From the movie, Avatar. “The Father, the Son, and the Holy More...
Looming Spectre of Anti-Hindu Political Front: Now It is Hindus Versus All Others
India won freedom in 1947 after passing through a blood bath of unimagineable proportions. At that time it was believed that in the coming decades the Hindus will be able to live peaceably in their ancient homeland. More...