Ayodhya Dispute- I: Fighting Eminent Historians
In the legal fight to reclaim the Ram Janmabhumi in Ayodhya, the discussion on Left Historians is a must. While the perception created is that the participation of these eminences was to add nuance to the subject, More...
‘Rama and Ayodhya’ and ‘The Battle for Rama’, by Meenakshi Jain
This review relies on material from both “Rama and Ayodhya” and “The Battle for Rama” on the Ayodhya dispute by Meenakshi Jain [contextly_sidebar id=”THIF177BhAXIzBM0lcogZf3CQLk7l9SN”] Circumstantial More...
Book Review: ‘Rama and Ayodhya’ by Meenakshi Jain- Part I
The diffusion of propaganda requires repetition. In the words of someone many leftists have secretly admired for long, repetition is what makes propaganda successful- the full quote is (bold-emphasis mine), “The More...
A visit to Ayodhya
I have been visiting India for more than 30 years and probably 30 times in all. India is in my system and I have an abstract, but deep connection with Hinduism, which was confirmed in a private ritual by Guru Brahmashree More...
Recollections with Sita Ram Goel: Part 1
This is the first part of the author’s essay in a volume he has edited: India’s Only Communalist. In Commemoration of Sita Ram Goel, Voice of India, Delhi 2005. Now that the trail-blazing Hindu publisher and More...
Award Returnees Dislike Indian Voters
The swelling outpouring of angst about alleged calamities being visited by Narendra Modi on India are unlikely to be coordinated, but clearly each one is inciting others. This is a bemusing puzzle. The fact of the More...
Book Review:- India: A Sacred Geography—A Disturbing New Front
Diana L. Eck “is professor of comparative religion and Indian studies at Harvard University and is Master of Lowell House and Director of the Pluralism Project.” She has written an atlas of sorts of More...
Misrepresentations of Hinduism in the Media
Hindus do not have a history of invading other countries. They have not sent missionaries to other countries preaching to them that their own religions are evil and trying to persuade or intimidate them to adopt More...
The definitive Ayodhya chronicle
There are very few publications giving a factual account of historical facts underlying the Ayodhya controversy. Yet this controversy has played a decisive role in recent Indian politics, giving the BJP the electoral More...
Interview with Koenraad Elst on Ayodhya
We step into the 22nd year of the Babri Masjid demolition, an event that changed the course of Indian politics definitively. Yet, for an event of this magnitude, still so fresh in recent memory, we still notice More...