Chetan Bhagat as a Symbol of Deracination
I have never read any book by Chetan Bhagat. When a friend asked me what I think of him, my response was factual – that I don’t think of him. It does not mean I dislike him or his books, it is just that he More...
Census 2011 and the Demographic threat
The New Delhi edition of the Times of India of 22 January 2015 had published a news report of highly doubtful veracity proclaiming that according to the 2011 Census, the Muslim population in India had grown by More...
The Neo-Mughals and the Neo-Marathas
It is said that there is no need to warn the wise for they know the perils themselves. But it is to the wise that any suggestions need be made, for they would be wasted otherwise. As Shukanasa tells us in Banabhatta’s More...
Distortions In Indian History
This is the first part of a series on “Distortions in Indian History,” excerpted from Dr. N.S. Rajaram’s book, “Nationalism and Distortions in Indian History. Introduction: roots of distortion India gained More...
Congress now wants to be a Hindu party
Some of the news items related to the Congress and its new-found love for Hindus remind me of a story I once heard from my Aunt, a nice story about Akbar and Birbal. Emperor Akbar was once enjoying the fragrance More...
Constitution Preamble or Why the Congress is addicted to secularism
In the recent Constitution Preamble row, the Congress has been exposed as a party which has always tried to conjure up bugbears and hide behind claptrap. So, it sees dangerous conspiracies in an inadvertent error, More...
Congress: A jihad-compliant party
In Goldfinger, James Bond says, “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” But what do you say when the same thing keeps happening all the time? This is the case with the Congress’ More...
Soul harvesting as an onsite-offshore business model
It is undeniable that the early successes of the Indian IT owed tremendously to what is now commonly known as the onsite-offshore business model. Here’s typically how the model works. Let us assume the client More...
In defence of ordinance raj
Everybody in the Opposition and many among opinion makers are bemoaning the slew of ordinances that the Narendra Modi government has come up with. The fact that the ordinances are aimed at kick-starting economic More...
Will Rahul Gandhi make the Congress irrelevant?
Dissent is the hallmark of democracy, as long as it is not directed at the Congress party. The catastrophe faced by the Congress in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections finally woke up the senior leaders from their slumber. More...