How castiest readings of Holi trivializes the festival
I must confess that with the current climate of distinct Hindu hatred, my expectations of peacefully celebrating my festivals were misplaced. This year, with a charged electoral climate, a decisive mandate and favourable More...
Aryan debate keeps on attracting silly politicos: A response to Shoaib Daniyal
In June 2015, Scroll.in published an article by Shoaib Daniyal on the Aryan debate, wherein he ridiculed the Out of India theory by comparing it with Intelligent Design or a Flat Earth Hypothesis. Here is a brief More...
The Andronovo cradle of the Indo-Iranians?
In 2006, the late Russian archaeologist Elena Kuzmina wrote a hefty book on the Origin of the Indo-Iranians (Brill, Leiden). It gives a very detailed history of the Andronovo culture and its surroundings in time More...
Indian Millennials Have a Healthy Sense of Indian Nationhood Mr. Patel
Indian Millennials have shed old-skin and have a healthy sense of Indian nationhood, whereas oped writers live in a world where some or the other old, hackneyed Marxist trope still rules the day. India is instinctively More...
Excavations Show the Cultural Continuity of the Vedic Harappans
Nonagenarian archaeologist B.B.Lal has synthesized his findings of the latest decades in the book The Rigvedic People: Invaders/Immigrants or Indigenous (Aryan Books, Delhi 2015). In it, he seeks to answer three More...
Examining the Marxist Version of India’s Past
The 18 September 2015 print edition of the Marxist fortnightly Frontline cover story was a detailed interview of Marxist historian Romila Thapar conducted by Ranabir Chakravarti, Professor of Ancient History at More...