College Education: What Reservation Has Done to It
College education in India is plagued by myriad problems, of which, I believe, the biggest is reservation. Considering the absence of a discourse on eliminating the so-called ‘positive discrimination’ in mainstream avenues, I have taken it upon myself to discuss it here. For decades now, those resentful of it have only cribbed, while, at the cost More...
UPA or NDA, Discrimination and Disparity continues
“There are as many as 2,07,000 temples in Karnataka and the total income of these temples amounts to Rs 72 crore. Only a sum of Rs. 6 crore is being spent by the Government for their upkeep. On the other hand, More...
Workshop on Temple Governance: An Indic Model for the new millennium
Namma Devasthana had organized a workshop on “Temple Governance” on July 2, 2016 at IIM-Bangalore. The hearing of Poojya Swami Dayanand Saraswati’s petition in the Supreme Court for the autonomy of Hindu More...
Secularism and Uniform Civil Code
India is probably the only country, wherein the concept of secularism is most perverted, both in principle and practice. After Independence, India, first borrowed this alien principle, without giving a thought regarding More...
Is Maneka Gandhi’s WCD Ministry becoming anti-men?
Maneka Gandhi took charge of the Women and Child Development (WCD) Ministry on the back of a massive electorate mandate that rejected the left-liberal politics out rightly. She gave a hope that finally the WCD Ministry More...
Can Governments ‘take over’ Administration of Hindu Religious Institutions? – VI
In the first five parts of the current series, I had discussed in some detail the fundamental rights of Hindu religious institutions under the Constitution and the State’s ability to limit them. In the last two More...
What Is USCIRF Hiding?
U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is scheduled to release its annual report on May 2. Each year, after the annual reports are released, most media outlets blindly peddle the USCIRF propaganda. More...
Barkha’s nihilistic cult of biased journalism
Here are the rules to live by as per Barkha- 1) Hindu women concentrating on problems in their own religion is perfectly acceptable. 2) Women from other religions, or agnostic women like Barkha, concentrating on More...
Lords Of The Lies
The oldest and the largest democracies in the world have a strange relationship. No sooner does anyone think that there could be a fruitful partnership between equals, the old bogey of the White Man’s Burden rears More...
Dear American Lawmakers
Dear American Lawmakers, As a constitution abiding Indian citizen I was quiet delighted to find that you chose to write a letter to my country’s PM Mr. Narendra Modi and voiced your concerns about the status of More...