Remembering a Karmayogi
Our one meeting ‘How old are you?’ Sitaramji asked me. ‘Forty’. ‘You are younger than my younger son’, he said affectionately. Thus began my first and only meeting with Sitaramji in November 1993. More...
Dhimmitude as Stockholm Syndrome
Two terms I frequently use are dhimmitude and dhimmi, terms whose genesis, consequence and current state I would like to examine here. From this examination, I also hope to make it clear why Hindus can’t take More...
Dhimmitude is the consequence of Jihad
Islam, we are told is a ‘complete and completed system,’ ordained by God and conveyed to humanity by His Final Prophet Muhammad. The Word of God (The Quran) and the Acts of Muhammad (The Hadiths) lay down the More...
The Mathematics of the Jihadis
‘It is difficult to gauge the intensity of the vengefulness of a fool who has been insulted,’ reads a line in the Kannada novelist Yashwanta Chittala’s Purushottama. Needless to say, it alerts us to the perils More...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Call for An Islamic Reformation
When an adolescent at school gleefully told me that the tooth fairy was not the one generously enriching my piggybank, and that it had to be one of my parents leaving the treasured coins under my pillow, I was shocked, More...
The straitjacket of Islamism
When the Bharatiya Janata Party is in the Opposition, it bemoans about Muslim appeasement, the clout of mullahs, and so on. However, when in power, it doesn’t bother about the nefarious activities of Islamists. More...
Abrahamic ideology inspires extraterritorial loyalty
The Mongol empire founded by Chingiz Khan and furthered by his sons and grandsons was remarkable in practicing religious freedom as a state policy. The early Khans did not enforce their ancestral Altaic religion More...
The United Minorities Challenge before the Modi Government
The United Minorities are waging a no-holds-barred campaign against Narendra Modi or against whomever is or can be pictured as a pro-Hindu power-wielder. One of their lines of attack is the blackening of the ruling More...
Oxford University buckles under leftist pressure
To ban or not to ban is always the question many would raise whenever there is an occasion to give a platform to contrarian individuals. But that is the reason we cherish institutions which take the concept of More...
Muslims vs Islam
‘Violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge More...