The political economy of demonetisation
Demonetisation was a brave policy to implement and risky. But then serious policy measures entail risk and India’s political culture is normally risk averse. As a result, it allows consequential missteps already taken to persist. And the untold damage they cause is ignored because no one is willing to take the responsibility for change. On the above More...
Book Review: Fundamentals of Indian Philosophy by Ramakrishna Puligandla
Ramakrishna Puligandla’s book, ‘Fundamentals of Indian Philosophy’ is a masterpiece book. It is a textbook apparently for many western university courses, and India should do the same at college level, especially More...
Kargil and the Manufacturing of History –III
[contextly_sidebar id=”Mgin1FqHgad1s782C1hodCMbJoB9O7QM”] In Pakistan in 1999, the “war-like” conflict in Kargil was a powerfully relevant ‘real-time’ example of my scholarly research, as I was More...
Sabarimala Temple: Is The Travancore Devaswom Board Expected To Defy A Constitutional Court’s Directions? – V
[contextly_sidebar id=”RtsNgya2Sg9SFGP6H60tfe2ZuNA1FAJ4″] In my last article as part of this series, I had discussed in some detail the constitutional validity of the position of the Travancore Devaswom More...
Deconstructing D D Kosambi: Numbers Don’t Lie
[contextly_sidebar id=”CtlbqfVD2njARe6J7u2rYBPdUrsRRT4n”] Numbers Kosambi goes on to question the veracity of the Mahabharata’s claim on the numbers: “If a Mahabharata war had actually been fought More...
Bihar Debacle: The Way Forward for the BJP
About two years ago, the Bharatiya Janata Party was not even a serious opposition in the nation’s politics. One of the perceptions was that it was acting like the B-team of the Congress, notably supporting More...
The IndiaFacts Adarsh Liberal Ready Reckoner
The second chapter of Sita Ram Goel’s 1984 book, Perversion of India’s Political Parlance, is titled Words Which Defy Dictionaries. Sita Ram Goel was one of Independent India’s most fearless champions More...
Moral Outrage of EyeStar Seagull
EyeStar Seagull gloomily stared at the television as she flipped channels. “What is this country coming to,” she said to her naukarani Rasika, the only one around who listened to her any more, “I see rallies More...
The Ideological Affiliations of The Caravan
[contextly_sidebar id=”YNvoNQhNb9qCIqwQPn7ekOc8wj1y3Xsn”] This is the third part of the series on anti-Hinduism as an industry written by Pankaj Saxena. The choice of the editorial team of The Caravan More...
Hamid Ansari and Rafiq Zakaria: A Study in Contrasts
Is it appropriate for the Vice President of secular India to speak publicly about the deprivation and discrimination by the state against his community? Is it acceptable for our nation’s Vice President to speak More...