Intellectual terrorism of the Left: The case for Dr. Makarand Paranjape

The Controversy In a recent incident which should be shocking for anyone caring about freedom of expression, Dr. Makarand Paranjape, the professor of English Literature at the JNU, and a famous author, was barred More...

The World of Wendy Doniger’s Translations

“Aldous Huxley once said that an intellectual was someone who had found something more interesting than sex; in Indology, an intellectual need not make that choice at all.” – Wendy Doniger, When the Lingam More...

Behind the Hostility in Academia towards Narendra Modi: An Interview with Vamsee Juluri

The petition by several US-based academics (mostly of Indian origin) against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit to Silicon Valley has understandably garnered enormous attention. Counter petitions More...

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...

Imagining Jambudvipa: Rescuing Indology and Indian History

“. . . a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, More...