Sabarimala, gau rakshaks, and the Smriti Irani-Kamal Haasan debate
Smriti Irani and Kamal Haasan faced off in a recent debate moderated by Arnab Goswami. The Hindu-baiting Kamal Haasan was, not surprisingly, easily decimated. Irani argued effectively on fighting terrorism and respecting More...
Should India strive to become the largest exporter of beef in the world?
Introduction Yogi Adityanath began his term as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh with an intense campaign against the illegal slaughterhouses running in the State. This has temporarily shut down the meat industry More...
The Spirit of Shambo (2007) Lives on: The Bull about Beef and a Metaphor for Dharmic Ethics
(Some events within this piece are a flashback – they occurred in July 2007. They are a TRUE dialogue based exclusively on an e-mail conversation between two friends, VC = a dear friend, Vijay a lifelong Vegetarian More...
Beef against Beef
“Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks:they’re only animals.” – Theodor W. Adorno On 30 September, the Delhi edition of the Indian Express carried an unspeakably More...
Where was Nayantara Sahgal when India Actually Needed Her?
When the news about Jawaharlal Nehru’s niece Nayantara Sahgal returning the “prestigious” Sahitya Akademi Award began to trend on Twitter the Twitter handle @AmartyaTalks aptly remarked: I read that Nehru’s More...
Hinduphobia of The Caravan
[contextly_sidebar id=”JrAS1gDvVWpfp5COfpvAvbKhSLlmjBrm”] This is the third part of the series on anti-Hinduism as an industry written by Pankaj Saxena. As the previous essay in this series noted, the More...
Contours of Secular Fear Mongering
When was the last time you read or heard in the mainstream media that in many parts of India Hindus are attacked by Muslims with impunity? Do you know that entire villages in West Bengal and Kerala are burned down More...
India’s Thought Cops are Angry with Modi
In the last week of September at Dadri not far from the Indian capital, an angry mob lynched to death Mohammad Akhlaq over allegations that a cow was slaughtered and he ate beef. In the 1970s and 1980s in Bihar More...
Media Hypocrisy over Dadri
What just happened in Dadri is very tragic, if you go by the media reports. A Muslim man was dragged out of his house and lynched by an enraged Hindu mob because he and his family were suspected of eating beef in More...
The Hindu View on Food and Drink
Co-authored by Hari Ravikumar In 2007, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations conducted a survey of meat consumption per person in every country. India came last. Food: Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian Further, More...