Left liberals and Anglicized secularists’ game of manufactured outrage
The die was cast, the tables were cleared and fresh plans were laid out sometime in May 2014. Left wingers and the Anglicized seculars rallied to the bugle call to save India’s secular fabric from the unwashed More...
Christian inculturation in Tamil Nadu blasphemes Thirukkural
Christians who had the temerity to lay their hands on Thirukkural then, attempted to baptise Thiruvalluvar recently. Taking a cue from G.U. Pope’s atrocious introduction to Thirukkural, a fanatical evangelist More...
Christian inculturation of Hinduism in Tamil Nadu
On 17 December 2014, Rev. Govada Dyvasirvadam, Church of South India Moderator has said, “Controversies such as the aborted Aligarh mass conversion deserve criticism and the politics behind it abhorred for it More...
Do Indians prosper only abroad?
The idea that Indians do well abroad and are held back at home is an oft-repeated conviction in its city salons. Indeed the common man has also heard of glittering Indian successes abroad and suspects that all is More...
Proselytisation in India: A critique from a Dharmic perspective
1) Background A correspondent recently sent me a print-copy of Mr C.Alex Alexander’s “Proselytisation in India: An Indian Christian’s Perspective” describing it as “a fair and reasonable More...
True Hindu greatness
Hindus make bold to be the inheritors of a great and exceptional civilization. And they are.Indeed, a wider recognition of this ancestral greatness would solve a number of contemporary problems Hinduism faces. Separatism, More...
Polycentrism, the many-one problem and the roots of yoga
One of the central problems Hindus face on the intellectual battlefield is articulating their position vis-a-vis the stances of their Abrahamic foes. An important aspect of this problem is the difficulty faced by More...
Fact Sheet on the JNU Mahishasura Day Controversy
Introduction On 14 October, the Press release of Asian Human Rights Commission titled “INDIA: Raid of Forward Press office is attack on freedom of expression” condemned the police action against a “Dalit” More...
The Sinister Side of Sufism
For centuries the Sufi creed and Sufi music have been tom-tommed as great symbols of spiritualism and promoters of peace and harmony between the Hindus and the Muslims. The cleverly marketed concept of Sufi spiritualism More...
Hinduism vs proselytizing religions in the market of ideas
Jaideep Prabhu set the proverbial cat amongst the pigeons with his provocative article in Firstpost titled “Is religious conversion a fundamental right” . He makes a forceful argument that a blanket ban on More...