MeToo Movement and its Contradictions
MeToo movement in India has been celebrated in mainstream media as a defining moment in the history of women in general and the shared experience of Indian women in particular. While being sympathetic to many such More...
Who is disrobing Draupadi?
The first edition of Bharat Shakti Pondy Litfest 2018, Puducherry was a special one because it was the first of its kind of festival bringing together some great minds of India and abroad discussing our rich heritage More...
A tale of two men: A misogynist pig and the first feminist
Two men[i]. Two different scholarly readings. The first man A Crown Prince. Later a King. He vowed to be a one-woman man, have only his one beloved wife as his Queen though it was customary in his times to have More...
Westernization, sin and sexuality
As Indian films and television increasingly show sexual content there are plenty of commentators extolling this as progress in catching up with the “sexually liberated” West. But is the West truly sexually liberated? More...
Missionaries and the debate on Sati in Colonial India
[contextly_sidebar id=”eBWL193jr1eqjRNrR0EnysLd8SB4ovcL”] In the popular mind, sati was one of the ills of Hindu society that was abolished by the colonial Government on persistent pressure from British More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – I: Is Communism Compatible with Democracy?
[contextly_sidebar id=”C4rLgLM8a8l83BoV4c4KjaSUizS5r3fc”] Hundred years ago, on 7th November, 1917, [1] a revolution took place in Europe which changed the fate of entire mankind. It was the Russian More...
Left’s Infiltration Into Education: The Great Betrayal by our Educators
What brings the Antifa, the Black Lives Matter, the radical feminists, Communists and Islamists together? There indeed is a one-word answer to that rather tedious question: Postmodernism. This non-/anti-philosophical More...
At service of Goddess Dulness: Victimhood Industry, ‘Cultural Marxism’ & Marginal Left
“Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall…” The above is a line in Alexander Pope’s poem Dunciad (the title is an obvious spin on the word ‘dunce’). The ‘Anarch’ it mentions is Goddess Dulness More...
A Memo about Women in Mahabharata
A recent controversy has erupted in Google with an employee writing an internal memo against gender diversity and equality. Its now known as the anti-diversity memo. This memo was 10 pages long and has been going More...
The Other Hidden Heroines in Indian History
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Shakespeare certainly had a right to his opinion but names, like words, are very important. Rarely in Germany or Russia More...