Why Britain is the most unsafe country for India
Any survey on India that is done in the West should be taken with a healthy dose of scepticism. Specifically, if the surveyor is a British organisation such as the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the report is likely More...
Response to Prof Sheldon Pollock’s interview published in Indian Express
Once again Prof Pollock has courted controversy by touching upon sensitive topics. His interview as published in Indian Express on May 31, 2018 has raised several eyebrows and buffeted social media discussions. More...
Do we want Padmavati or Christ next to Thimmappa – Decide!
I regret to state that Tirupati is soon going to go into the hands of Christians and Muslims. I don’t intend to scare anyone. But that is the reality. Most of us usually book hotel, bus, flight and even darshan 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...
Does Rutgers University promote White Supremacy and Hinduphobia?
Why is it that the West thinks that it is game to put down anything Hindu? Why is there such hatred among its population towards the people of the third biggest religion in the World, which has millenniums of unbroken More...
Claim the narrative, don’t let biased media define us
News has never been a completely objective account. Framing, a theory in journalism studies, states that news stories often emphasize one aspect of a given event, while ignoring others. This usually leads to an More...
Kanchi Seer Should Not Bow Down to Prejudice-Filled Tamil ‘Anthem’
Sri Vijayendra Sarasvati, the designated successor to the current pontiff of the Kanchi Mutt, has been the target of vicious media attacks spearheaded by the Dravidianists and leftists. In a recent function which More...
Myopic Pedagogy: Prejudicial Representations of India in U.S. Social Studies Classrooms
When negative stereotypes about India are taught as fact in American classrooms, students of Indian heritage may be adversely impacted as they struggle to work out their identity in a pluralistic, predominately More...
The Ignorance Within: How Hindutva Plutocrats are weakening the Intellectual Battle for Hindu Survival
Sri Ashok Chowgule, a businessman with shipping and other interests and sometime Working President of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), has written a long response in Swarajya to my recent analysis of why Hindus More...
Beyond Belief: We Are Not All the Same
Believer, the recent documentary by Reza Aslan, succeeded in creating quite a buzz among Hindus all over the world. Most people took umbrage over the fact that Aslan zeroed in on a fringe community of ‘believers’ More...