Not Oppressed: A Statement of Shudra Pride
“There is hardly a village, great or small, throughout our territories, in which there is not at least one school, and in larger villages more.” (Source: G.L. Prendergast, 1820) “It has generally been More...
Idea of Bharatiya Exceptionalism- II
[contextly_sidebar id=”rezCBVeV3s4nX5KYKxVr0XxPyXwlUMfN”] Need to address and eliminate anti-narratives Before understanding the Bharatiya narrative, it is important to disrupt the anti-narrative which More...
The Idea of Bharatiya Exceptionalism-I
Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 of the transcript of a lecture given by Rajiv Malhotra in a seminar organized by Bharatiya Shikshan Mandal Namaste. On this auspicious Mahashivaratri Day, I am honored to be invited More...
Beef Ban Bombs Explode Ignorance
Today is the birth anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi, the man whose several written views on the cow and its slaughter were found worthy of compilation in a book of his Epigrams by S.R.Tikekar. Among the gems therein More...
Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 21-28 June 2015
1. Call goes out to mosques from Muslim law board: rally against rising Hindutva forces Report: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has come out openly against what it calls is the rising influence More...
Charu Gupta’s politics of Smothering
Historian Charu Gupta in her recent op-ed in the 20 December edition of the Indian Express dropped her pearls of wisdom on the issue of re-conversion, or homecoming, a topic which is suddenly the main headlines More...
Nothing to celebrate about Periyar
Today is the 135th birth anniversary of Erode Venkata Ramaswamy Naicker, or as he is affectionately called Periyar (the Great Man). In the birth anniversaries of great men who are no longer with us, it is the More...