Sita Ram Goel: The Rishi of a resurgent India
A Prophet of 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 which he saw as More...
The Sinister Side of Sufism
For centuries the Sufi creed and Sufi music have been tom-tommed as great symbols of spiritualism and promoters of peace and harmony between the Hindus and the Muslims. The cleverly marketed concept of Sufi spiritualism More...
Imagining Jambudvipa: Rescuing Indology and Indian History
“. . . a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, More...
Mohan Bhagwat is right: India is a Hindu nation
It’s that time of the year again. Actually, there’s really no time or season when this is concerned. Put another way, the more things change the more they remain the same. Narendra Modi’s blitzkrieg campaign More...
Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica: Their counterfeit St. Thomas entries exposed
The cult of St. Thomas originated in and was centred at Edessa at least up to the eighth century when the Muslims began to invade Syria, and it is the considered opinion of many historians today that nobody in Asia More...
Hindus must reclaim their history
In an opinion piece in Outlook (“Chaining 1200 years”, 7-7-2014), Hasan Suroor takes issue with PM Narendra Modi’s diagnosis that Indians suffer from a slave mentality due to “1200 years” of oppression. More...
Krishnaraja Wodeyar III: the Cultural founder of modern Mysore state
Perhaps the Wodeyar dynasty is the longest and most continuous empire to ever rule howsoever tiny a part of the erstwhile Mysore state, now known as Karnataka. From 1399 when it was established by Yaduraya Wodeyar More...
Romila Thapar’s return to eminence
India is definitely a land of surprise and shock. Nothing else explains the fact that despite a change in regime at the centre, the controversial historian Romilla Thapar is back in business courtesy Janaab Najeeb More...
Can Shahi Imam N R Barkati be tried for waging war against India?
Assertion: A Hindustan Times report dated 30 March 2014 recounts a conversation with Kolkata’s Shahi Imam N.R. Barkati. The Shahi Imam in the context of the upcoming general elections had this to say: You must More...
Asaduddin Owaisi: One lakh Muslims butchered in the Deccan
Assertion In a debate on Times Now on 11 March 2014, Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MP Asaduddin Owaisi made the following claim: As far as the police action is concerned, let us do a programme on Pandit Sunderlal More...