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How the Congress Manufactures Intolerance
Preface With the early winter march to Rashtrapati Bhawan on Tuesday, Congress wielded its brahmastra on a government elected with a huge popular mandate. Leading from the front was the President and Former De facto More...
Rahul Just Doesn’t Have It
Every time I sit down at my computer to put down my thoughts on the present scenario of India I feel utterly dejected and disgusted — rather confused, that I give it up. For one I am at a loss on where to More...
Sad Sardesai, Happy India
I’m writing this in response to Rajdeep Sardesai’s lament that begins with the famous Javed Akhtar song from Silsila…Yeh kahan aa gaye hum…in terms of what a vitriolic atmosphere we have gotten ourselves More...
The Narrative is Churning Away from Pseudo Secularism
This article was co-authored with Rajneesh. An unfortunate Indian got lynched at Dadri recently. However, more unfortunately for the nation, the media embarked on a lynching of its own making, and it does not seem More...
Indian Secularism is Colour Blind
People are angry at the murder of Muhammad Akhlaq in Dadri over allegations that he ate beef. Some say they are angry at Akhlaq’s murder, while others say they are angry at the murder of the cow. Some people More...
Selective Shock Over Dadri: A Reply to Sagarika Ghosh
Flowery writing using vocabulary heard only in spelling bee contests seems to be the only strength of the so-called liberal journalists educated at prestigious universities abroad. Equally, their competence also 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...