Not Oppressed: A Statement of Shudra Pride
“There is hardly a village, great or small, throughout our territories, in which there is not at least one school, and in larger villages more.” (Source: G.L. Prendergast, 1820) “It has generally been More...
Can secularism meet its end in India, that is Bharat?
Over the course of centuries, India has been the place where some of the major destructive ideologies of the world met their end. As the marauding Islamic armies conquered Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Persia etc., they More...
India as India has Existed since Antiquity in Greek & Roman Accounts
Mr. Saif Ali Khan, as he was promoting his recently released movie Tanhaji, made a comment, perhaps in all sincerity, “I don’t think there was a concept of India till the British gave it one.” Mr. Khan has More...
No Mr. Saif, ‘Concept of India’ is not a Gift from British
A few years ago, the self-professed history buff Saif Ali Khan named his son from his second wife Kareena Kapoor Khan as Taimur. In the Indian context, Taimur reminds one promptly of the cruel Central Asian ruler who More...
Failure of Communism in India
Communism is a political and economic ideology envisaging classless, government-controlled society with shared ideals of equality, class-less socio-economic hierarchy and extreme anti-elitism poured over by the More...
Bringing India to heel
In the decades after Indian independence, Western powers, led by the UK and later increasingly the US, were irritated and disappointed with Nehru’s India. Nehru’s exaggerated view of his world standing, mostly More...
Geopolitical imperatives for modern India – I
It is a sad fact that foreign and security policies of independent India had not been sufficiently influenced by geopolitical concepts and logics, but rather more by ideological convictions, internal political considerations More...
Book Summary: Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism by Jakob de Roover-II
In the previous part, we saw the evolution of secularism in the Christian world but its inapplicability in the Indian context which does not have religions but traditions. An idea which made sense in a specific More...
Hating India, not so cordially!
In over fifty years, I can only truly recall only one palpably warm and affirmative article in the British media about India. It was written by a former student of mine, the correspondent of a leading London daily More...
What should be the future of POK? A Legal Perspective
The abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution of India by the Hon’ble Home Minister of India, Shri Amit Shah last month has sparked number of debates, the most prominent of them being what shall be the future More...