Raja Rao Experienced “India as an Idea”

Raja Rao was my professor when I was an undergraduate student at the University of Texas at Austin from 1976 -1981. I started college after spending four years in India, arriving at the Indo-Pak border on December More...

Countering the Idea of India camp: Insights from 19th Century Foreigners

Today, the mainstream dominant discourse on India and Indology revolves around what is known as “the idea of India”. Many books, academic papers and peer-reviewed articles have been written challenging the legitimacy More...

Ten things that define Adarsh-Liberal’s Idea of India

Ever since Narendra Modi’s government came to power in 2014, a bunch of intellectuals, liberals, seculars, and senior editors have been saying that the ‘Idea of India’ is under threat. No matter what happens, More...

Nehru’s India: A Country That Is Not A Nation

Democracy in a New Nation In 1831, a twenty-six year old French nobleman by name Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville landed in America carrying a commission from the French monarch Louis-Philippe (of the More...

Protecting Indians from the Idea of India

Idea of India is the latest avatar of Communism. During their Nehruvian and Indira Gandhian heydays, Indian Communists wore their Communism as a badge of honour. And then they called themselves progressives. Post More...