India as India has Existed since Antiquity in Greek & Roman Accounts
Mr. Saif Ali Khan, as he was promoting his recently released movie Tanhaji, made a comment, perhaps in all sincerity, “I don’t think there was a concept of India till the British gave it one.” Mr. Khan has More...
Reconceptualizing India Studies by S N Balagangadhara: Rethinking of Indian Colonial Narratives- II
SN Balagangadhara now looks at how colonialism of the past generates a disturbing colonial consciousness in the present. Colonial consciousness is a phenomenon of colonial thought deeply permeating in discussions More...
Reconceptualizing India Studies by S N Balagangadhara: Rethinking of Indian Colonial Narratives- I
Every book either written by Dr SN Balagangadhara or inspired by his ideas changes one’s perception of India, the world, and society radically; and this book is no exception. This book deals with many problematic More...
Book Review & Summary: Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India By Swagato Ganguly- II
The first part saw the wonderful book dealing with how Christian and Enlightenment values at the roots of the missionary and Orientalist/Indologist efforts in India converged to a similar theme. Idolatry was the More...
Remembering Jallianwala Bagh: Nadir of colonialism and collaboration
On Baisakhi Day, April 13, 1919, more than 20,000 unarmed men, women and children had gathered at Amritsar’s Jallianwala Bagh. Most had simply drifted into the park to relax after having attended the annual fair More...
Gandhi As He Really Was: The Empire Loyalist
2019 is the year the world celebrates the 150th birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. A question does need to be asked: do the common people of the world really know this “man of peace”? First, let More...
Being a Hindu in India: The Agony and the Ecstasy
Blatant and continuous persecution over centuries defines the Hindus of India. The imperialisms created havoc to Hinduism; the colonials projected Hindus as primitive; and the missionaries tried to get the Hindu More...
The imperative of decolonizing Indian education
Seemingly mindless Hindi movies often drop, albeit unknowingly, pearls of wisdom and offer insights into the working of society. While watching one such experiment titled Yamla, Pagla, Deewana, I came across a typical More...
Book Review: Creating A New Medina by Venkat Dhulipala
Creating A New Medina by Venkat Dhulipala is available on Amazon for purchase. Partition of India is one of the saddest parts of Indian History and Freedom movement. Some claim that the idea of Pakistan was just More...
Why Britain is the most unsafe country for India
Any survey on India that is done in the West should be taken with a healthy dose of scepticism. Specifically, if the surveyor is a British organisation such as the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the report is likely More...