Deconstructing Arun Shourie’s “Two Saints”
Two Saints: Speculations Around and About Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Ramana Maharishi by Arun Shourie has been published by Harper Collins and is available on Amazon. Arun Shourie’s new book, “Two Saints” More...
When Eminent Historians Plagiarize They Get Bouquets
“Well, in 1992, when I was president of Indian Council of Historical Research, the 450th birth anniversary of Akbar was being observed. BJP and RSS had opposed these celebrations. LK Advani and others said Akbar More...
Romila Thapar: Eminent Historian’s continuing fraud
The 27 October edition of Hindu published a report titled ‘Academics must question more’ in which ‘eminent’ historian Romila Thapar questioned why Delhi’s intelligentsia were not opposing the changes More...
State of intellectuals in Contemporary India-Part 3
Joseph Goebbels who was the chief propagandist of the German Nationalist Socialist Party, once famously said: If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. Fortunately More...
Gauche CBI torments Baijal
The Central Bureau of Investigation’s action against Pradeep Baijal defies logic. The premier agency has alleged cheating in the sale of ITDC-owned Laxmi Vilas Palace Hotel in Udaipur. Twelve years after he demitted More...
An “eminent historian” attacks Arun Shourie
D.N. Jha’s “Reply to Arun Shourie”, dated 3 July 2014, was published in shorter form as “Grist to the reactionary mill”, Indian Express, 9 July 2014. It starts as follows: “I was amused to read ‘How More...