Examining the Marxist Version of India’s Past
The 18 September 2015 print edition of the Marxist fortnightly Frontline cover story was a detailed interview of Marxist historian Romila Thapar conducted by Ranabir Chakravarti, Professor of Ancient History at More...
Rearming Hinduism: Book Review
Rearming Hinduism: Nature, Hinduphobia and the Return of Indian Intelligence Paperback, by Vamsee Juluri He who controls the history of a people controls the people. Colonization of the land is easier to More...
Irfan Habib still searching for the Saraswati River
But a library shelf filled with contemporary geographical and historical research about the Sindhu-Saraswati [aka] Harappan [aka] IVC has been right under his nose for twenty-five years! In the 17 April edition More...
Romila Thapar’s return to eminence
India is definitely a land of surprise and shock. Nothing else explains the fact that despite a change in regime at the centre, the controversial historian Romilla Thapar is back in business courtesy Janaab Najeeb More...
The Ayodhya movement: a trip down memory lane
Romila Thapar, most eminent among India’s eminent historians, protested against the Court verdict acknowledging the historical evidence that the Babar mosque in Ayodhya had been built in forcible replacement More...
Gravy Train of Eminent Historians about to end
Secular fears We seem to be living in unusual times. The meteoric rise of Narendra Modi more or less accompanied by the precipitous decline of the family that calls itself the Congress party seems to have let the More...