Mukul Kesavan’s cartoonish sojourns
In the 12 February edition of The Telegraph eminent secular columnist Mukul Kesavan decided to share his wisdom on the BJP’s disastrous performance in the Delhi polls. The opening statement sets the tone: The pharaoh lost. He still stares into the middle distance on every road – from his perch on high hoardings, from inside glazed posters on More...
The dangers of a “centralized” Hindu voice
Distributed resistance One of India’s key strengths through the ages has been its ability to defend its way of life against all odds, whether it was in 1857 or the centuries and millennia before that. Today, India, More...
Damned if you, damned if you don’t!
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Narendra Modi and the Law of Unspecified Prerequisites
A most important factor responsible for rout of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Delhi Assembly polls pertains to a simple fact: the Narendra Modi dispensation forgot the fundamental difference between divine powers More...
Denying the existence of the Saraswati River akin to denying gravity
Since his retirement from a life of service at NCERT, Arjun Dev was in the forefront condemning the BJP textbooks. Arjun Dev wrote in an article that appeared in Mainstream, November 9, 2002 Pushing the Parivar More...
DELHI POLLS: Modi prepared pitch for Modi
Aam Aadmi Party boss Arvind Kejriwal’s impressive victory in Delhi Assembly elections is also the resounding defeat of the Narendra Modi government and the Bharatiya Janata Party, notwithstanding the protestations More...
Delhi Elections: Return of the protest-happy Anarchist
Edward Murrow gave us the renowned quote ‘A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves’, which underscores what often goes wrong in a democracy which we perceive to be a ‘Government of the people , More...
Nine anti-India activists you must beware of
1. Mahasweta Devi Books: The Queen of Jhansi Hajar Churashir Maa Aranyer Adhikar (The Occupation of the Forest, 1977) Agnigarbha (Womb of Fire, 1978) Dust on the Road (Translated into English by Maitreya Ghatak. More...
Misrepresentations of Hinduism in the Media
Hindus do not have a history of invading other countries. They have not sent missionaries to other countries preaching to them that their own religions are evil and trying to persuade or intimidate them to adopt More...