Contemporary challenges facing Hindu society
Waking up to the sonorous voice of Birendra Krishna Bhadra, reciting the intensely poignant Mahisasuramardini, announcing Mahalaya, is a moment of extraordinary significance for Bengali Hindus. Its memory prompted More...
Remembering Veer Savarkar
The late 19th century, was when India was awakening to its spiritual heritage, its pride of place among the nations of the world, during ancient times. People like Dayananda and Swami Vivekananda were spreading More...
Checkmating Anti-Hindus Like Mehdi Hasan
[contextly_sidebar id=”uyK1c785U7K011P9Q19fXvi3NrIH0qkN”] This is the concluding part of my three part series on the recent Al Jazeera episode in which the anchorperson and Islamic bigot Mahdi Hasan More...
Nehru As Seen By A Hindu Nationalist
Intellectual Warrior of Post-Nehruvian India The late Sita Ram Goel, historian, thinker and creator of the publishing houses, Voice of India and Aditya Prakashan was a fighter par excellence for nationalist causes More...
Contemporary Evangelism and the Resurrection of the Colonial Politics of Race, Caste and Religion
‘’The modern writing of Indian history developed during the last two centuries. The needs of these times had encouraged the adoption of certain attitudes and theories about Indian Past…….some of these stereotypes More...
The West and East Meet Only to Demonize the Hindu
Awards being returned, and of such acts planned and simply announced by the returnees on the national news media, reminds me of the Ramana Mahirshi-inspired Paul Brunton’s writing about artists and writers and More...
Examining the Marxist Version of India’s Past
The 18 September 2015 print edition of the Marxist fortnightly Frontline cover story was a detailed interview of Marxist historian Romila Thapar conducted by Ranabir Chakravarti, Professor of Ancient History at More...
Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 21-28 June 2015
1. Call goes out to mosques from Muslim law board: rally against rising Hindutva forces Report: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has come out openly against what it calls is the rising influence More...
Veer Savarkar: Myths and Truths
Today marks the one thirty second birth anniversary of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, the man who coined the term Hindutva, the much maligned word in Indian socio-political discourse. It has been almost five decades More...
10 Excerpts from Sheldon Pollock’s interview to Tehelka
The following are excerpts from an interview that Sheldon Pollock, currently the head of the Murty Classical Library of India gave to Tehelka some time in 2011. Videos of the interview titled “Sheldon Pollock More...