What will the World Think of India?
The panel discussions in the English news channels in India are amazing. It keeps amazing me how panelists manage to reply at length to a straight forward question without giving an answer. Usually, the anchor shifts More...
A young man of 30 dressed in a silk robe…
On January 12th, 2013, it was 150 years that Swami Vivekananda was born. He needs no introduction. His is a household name in India and he is also well known in the west. The yearlong celebrations remind me that More...
Why a Non-Indian, Non-Hindu is Building the Shivaji Museum of Indian History
I had just completed my 18th year and I was living in Paris, France, the city of my birth, when I heard that a caravan of cars was driving from Paris to Pondicherry. I had never heard of India, but something in More...
Tracing India’s Constitutional History: Part 1
Introduction Most people, including many law students in India are under the impression that modern constitutional jurisprudence evolved in India only with the advent of the British. While most of our textbooks More...
The Truth of Christian Missionaries in India
Note: This article was first published on Maria Wirth’s blog. Christian missionaries have become increasingly visible and controversial in India. As I grew up as a Christian, I would like to share my observations More...
Did Nawaz Sharif call Manmohan Singh a Dehati Aurat?
Assertion: On the eve of Manmohan Singh and Nawaz Sharif’s meeting in New York, the Pakistani Prime Minister invited some journalists to a breakfast meeting in which he called Manmohan Singh a “dehati aurat.” More...