Five major distortions of the Ramayana in academia
1. The educational site www.historyforkids.org characterizes Ramayana as follows in their Ramayana Project: The Ramayana is partly a metaphor for the Aryans trying to invade the people of southern India. It’s a North Indian story, and it shows the North Indians as the good guys and the South Indians as the bad guys. How should we feel about this? More...
Charu Gupta’s politics of Smothering
Historian Charu Gupta in her recent op-ed in the 20 December edition of the Indian Express dropped her pearls of wisdom on the issue of re-conversion, or homecoming, a topic which is suddenly the main headlines More...
EXTRACT FROM ANWAR SHAIKH’S BOOK ON ISLAM
The following is an extract from a 40 page booklet titled “ISLAM” authored by the late Anwar Shaikh, my friend. Anwar published it in December 1994 through his own company named ‘The Principality Publishers, More...
Peshawar massacre: Jihad unlimited
The terrorist attack on a military-run school in Peshawar, in which 148 people, including 132 children died, evoked considerable outrage in our country and elsewhere. It also gave rise to the hope that, at long More...
Oafish Opposition
Consider the following : When the whole world was celebrating 21 June being declared as World Yoga Day by United Nations, with a record breaking support of 177 Nations, the entire opposition in both Lok Sabha More...
Jug Suraiya’s Hinduism is all wrong. Here’s why
In the 13 December edition of Times Of India, Jug Suraiya raised concern over what he considers to be a negative transformation of Hinduism courtesy…who else… the Sangh Parivar: The Dharama Jagran Samanvay Vibhag, More...
ISI Asserts Total Control on Pakistan’s Policymaking
In modern memory, December 16 was the darkest day for Pakistani children. A group of Taliban suicide bombers entered a military-run school in Peshawar and slaughtered 132 children and nine adults. The Taliban claimed More...
What is wrong with having a national scripture?
In a recent column, the scholar Jataayu argues that Sushma Swaraj’s recent call to declare the Bhagavad Gīta a national scripture is “silly and childish” and calls it a “mere empty symbolism.” More...