How free India has wronged the legacy of Rashbehari Bose
The saga of Rashbehari Bose is that of an endless sequence of revolutionary attempts driven by a burning zeal for freedom. It started with dropping a bomb on Viceroy Hardinge in a regal ceremony held for celebrating More...
An Open Letter to Ananya Vajpeyi on Sanskrit
Dear Ananya, On a first look, I could have safely ignored your article published in World Policy Journal as just another leftist rant, but since you mentioned JNU and its Sanskrit center, I had to jot down some More...
Manoharlal Sharma’s plea to Stop Pampering Kashmiri Separatists is an historic NIL
Advocate Manoharlal Sharma’s plea in the country’s apex court to stop the bountiful spending from the national exchequer on the separatist groups in the Kashmir Valley (see the list of top six separatists at More...
Demystifying Tantra-III: Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava Tantras
[contextly_sidebar id=”euLkcKuZemLFvF1URNiov2zllkawOGSi”] The tantra śāstras are an integral part of Hinduism, and provide spiritual practitioners concrete guidelines to achieve spiritual ascendancy. More...
Amnesty India: Hypocrisy And Tyranny Of The Unelected
In season four, episode 11 of Boston Legal, the brilliant but quirky lawyer Jerry Espenson makes this opening statement arguing on behalf of a woman suing a law firm that encouraged her husband for seeking divorce: “I More...
Eight reasons why the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ is already upon us
We are witnessing one horrific terrorist attack after another the world over and it shows absolutely no signs of stopping. Since 2015, there seems to be at least one incident in Europe every month. In 1993, American More...
Spread of fundamentalist Islam in Rajasthan: Are we missing the trap?
With the growth of religious pluralism on a global scale, freedom of religion has emerged as a fundamental human rights issue. It also intersects with political, social and economic development. One of the most More...
‘The Poor debates’ and ‘The Debates about the Poor’
We the people of this Great Nation ‘India’ that is ‘Bharat’ have always been argumentative since time immemorial. Diversity of ideas and opinions has been the essence of our age old continuing civilization’s More...
How the media conspires to work against India
Recently, Arnab Goswami managed, within just four minutes, to focus the attention of the entire nation on the compromised and unethical journalism practiced by certain journalists, who continue to peddle an anti-Indian More...
College Education: What Reservation Has Done to It
College education in India is plagued by myriad problems, of which, I believe, the biggest is reservation. Considering the absence of a discourse on eliminating the so-called ‘positive discrimination’ in mainstream More...