India’s Thought Cops are Angry with Modi

In the last week of September at Dadri not far from the Indian capital, an angry mob lynched to death Mohammad Akhlaq over allegations that a cow was slaughtered and he ate beef. In the 1970s and 1980s in Bihar More...

NCERT Class XII Textbook: A Case Study of Progressive History Writing

Of late, a large section of the Indian media has been going out of the way to flaunt their  latest obsession with what normal people would consider  non-issues. These large sections of the media seek to project More...

Remembering Sharatbabu‏

We are often disheartened to hear news of abject poverty, mistreatment of women, as well as social injustice flashed around in newspapers. These kinds of news give rise to the question:  which way this nation is More...

Forgotten Liberators: Swami Shraddhanand

The English translation of the soubriquet ‘Mahatma’, means ‘Great Soul’.  In Indian history, this honorific is bestowed upon Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi. Most historical texts characterize More...