Political Humbuggery, The New York Times, and Indian Shills
Is this possible too – that cow urine can tantalize the taste-buds of the readers of the venerable New York Times? It seems so, especially if it is garnished with generous doses of phrases like the “Hindu More...
California Textbook Controversy: ‘Scholars for People’ sends final letter to CBE
California is currently debating the portrayal of Indian history in their school textbooks. A small group of South Asia studies faculty had asked the California Board of Education (CBE) to remove references to More...
Barkha’s nihilistic cult of biased journalism
Here are the rules to live by as per Barkha- 1) Hindu women concentrating on problems in their own religion is perfectly acceptable. 2) Women from other religions, or agnostic women like Barkha, concentrating on More...
Lords Of The Lies
The oldest and the largest democracies in the world have a strange relationship. No sooner does anyone think that there could be a fruitful partnership between equals, the old bogey of the White Man’s Burden rears More...
Project ACRPR: Racial Profiling of Hindus
[contextly_sidebar id=”EfCDeUogGjrudn5qk426M4RCdhKBkluu”] The ACRPR Project Report titled ‘Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence: The Right to Heal’ claims that its primary aim is to study More...
Hinduphobia of The Caravan
[contextly_sidebar id=”JrAS1gDvVWpfp5COfpvAvbKhSLlmjBrm”] This is the third part of the series on anti-Hinduism as an industry written by Pankaj Saxena. As the previous essay in this series noted, the More...
Behind the Hostility in Academia towards Narendra Modi: An Interview with Vamsee Juluri
The petition by several US-based academics (mostly of Indian origin) against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit to Silicon Valley has understandably garnered enormous attention. Counter petitions 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...
The Economist’s explanation is rooted in hubris and Hinduphobia
On June 1, the Economist “explains” as to “Why and how we make election endorsements.” First, it is not an explanation of any sort. It is the crudest display of an arrogant and garrulous More...