Academic Hinduphobia Going Mainstream
Introduction Last weekend while firming our plans for Inferno, we chanced upon an article. We could not help reading it with uninterrupted amusement, for, right from the click-bait headline to the nearly 900 More...
Clarifying the Hindu View
Co-authored by Hari Ravikumar Our previous article titled ‘Hindu View on Food and Drink’ understandably received a fair bit of outraged reactions from a section of readers and was the subject of much debate. While More...
Progressive Distortions in NCERT Class 12 Textbook
In my previous essay, I had examined and pointed out gross distortions in the chapter titled Theme Thirteen: ‘Mahatma Gandhi and the National Movement,’ which is part of the Class XII NCERT history textbook. More...
The rebel who had a desire for sacrifice
Note : The following is a tribute to the late great revolutionary Ram Prasad Bismil whose eighty-eight birth anniversary took place yesterday. ‘His poetry is also a lamp lighted at the altar of the Mother land,’ More...
Introspecting Operation Bluestar
Certain tragedies that befell our country are very difficult to forget; one such incident was the controversial and destructive ‘Operation Bluestar’ – a military operation in 1984 – to flush out Sikh militants More...
Harsh Mander’s article on ghar wapsi conceals his Christian funders
In the 13 January edition of Hindustan Times, well-known social activist and former member of the Sonia Gandhi-headed NAC, Harsh Mander opined on the conversion-reconversion debate thus: Free India was born in a More...
Forgotten Liberators: Swami Shraddhanand
The English translation of the soubriquet ‘Mahatma’, means ‘Great Soul’. In Indian history, this honorific is bestowed upon Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi. Most historical texts characterize More...