छात्र राजनीति: कॉन्ट्रोवर्सी की औलादें जो फेसबुकिया यूथ आइकॉन्स गढ़ती हैं
ये ग़ज़ब बात है कि कॉलेज से तुरंत (या ४-५ साल पहले) निकले हुए लोग अचानक से छात्र राजनीति, More...
Book Review- ‘Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left’ by Roger Scruton
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton can be purchased from Amazon. The left brand of philosophy can be very obscure and is subjected to random interpretation depending on the More...
The Grand JNU Narrative
I arrived in JNU on a clear, balmy August afternoon of 1990. The subsequent 4 years I spent there, first as an MA then as an M. Phil student in Linguistics, were one of the most formative for a middle-class next-door More...
Opposing the Left is Not “Right”-Part III:The Debate
[contextly_sidebar id=”X5xtKc4HIThiWmzo5PMf1mQdB9tgq5wi”] My two posts led to a vigorous debate with a friend who is also a mainstream journalist. You will see how the leftwing media and their supporters More...
Opposing the Left is Not “Right”-Part II: More to Mahishasura
[contextly_sidebar id=”eolQRkRaTezOzNMco6G0eQTVvzMCC1NM”] A debate ensued, which led me to write another post on February 19: This time it was it was for all and sundry. I am reproducing it in entirety More...
Opposing the Left is Not “Right”- Part I: A letter to students
Two Facebook Posts and a Debate with a Journalist Supporting Indian Left-Wing Thinking—A Case study It all started with the JNU row. Being an academic in the United States who teaches and researches in the areas More...
Just The Facts, Prof. Chomsky
Dear Prof. Chomsky, I first heard your name when, as a Computer Science student at IIT Kanpur, I studied the Chomsky-Normal Form for specifying formal languages. Many years later, I came across “Manufacturing More...
Selection Engineering: Political Filters in JNU’s Admission Process
[Warning: What you are about to read is not satire. The questions that appear in this article are taken from actual question papers of the Jawaharlal Nehru University. Some readers may find the contents of this More...
Feminist and Media Discourse on Rape Protects Rapists
A group of friends whose friendship is thicker than blood set out on a road trip. Sometime during the trip one of the men sexually abuses and rapes one of the females in the group. If you happen to be one of the More...
Upholding Secularism, Pluralism and Free Speech: A JNU Manual
The English media is again on a hysterical overdrive about freedom under threat and supposedly ‘rising intolerance’ in India. In this cabal, they have been enthusiastically joined by the legions of liberal warriors More...