Aurangzeb Road: Symptom of a Deeper Malaise
The Congress has always been a party held together by a personality—first by Mohandas Gandhi, later Nehru, and now Sonia Gandhi. It is inevitable therefore that force of personality rather than concerns of national More...
Decoding Gandhi’s Letters to Hitler
Mahatma Gandhi’s admirers are not in the habit of confronting embarrassing facts about their favourite saint. His critics, by contrast, gleefully keep on reminding us of a few facts concerning the Mahatma More...
Not Gandhi but Japan Kicked out Britain from India
Mass desertions of loyal Indian soldiers to the Japanese-trained INA precipitated Britain’s withdrawal from India. On 15 November 1941, less than a month before Pearl Harbour, the Japanese leadership approved More...
Historical Hindu Responses to Abrahamism
The Hindu encounter with Abrahamism began with the initial expansions of the second (Christ cult) and third (Mohammedanism) versions. Hindus were among the early victims of the second Abrahamism in the holy war More...
What Yoga is and is not: A report from Greece
Shantom Centre, Athens, 6 June 2015 Professor Bharat Gupt, a classicist, expert in ancient Greek and Indian theater, and a scholar of Indian philosophy and religion spoke at the Shantom Centre, Athens on the topic More...
NCERT Class XII Textbook: A Case Study of Progressive History Writing
Of late, a large section of the Indian media has been going out of the way to flaunt their latest obsession with what normal people would consider non-issues. These large sections of the media seek to project More...
The rebel who had a desire for sacrifice
Note : The following is a tribute to the late great revolutionary Ram Prasad Bismil whose eighty-eight birth anniversary took place yesterday. ‘His poetry is also a lamp lighted at the altar of the Mother land,’ More...
Savarkar and Modi, beginning and end of Hindutva
Hate mongers Hate mongers often need concocted stories to buttress their political message. In India, these are most common in that peculiar Indian form of hatred: anti-Brahminism. As the local counterpart to what More...
The roots of the discourse on Communalism
In times of communal carnage we see news channels beaming gory images and calling for shrill debates where in most cases less is achieved except straining tonsils. What is otherwise done is the majority is painted 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...