Caste 101 and the curious case of the Left-Liberal

Sample this: Suresh (SC) enters a work space where a number of women are working. The women are a mixture of Paraiyars (SCs), Gounders (BCs) and Mudaliars (FCs). Note also that all these women are sitting together More...

An “eminent historian” attacks Arun Shourie

D.N. Jha’s “Reply to Arun Shourie”, dated 3 July 2014, was published in shorter form as “Grist to the reactionary mill”, Indian Express, 9 July 2014. It starts as follows: “I was amused to read ‘How More...

Vijay Prashad: secular distortionist par excellence

A Professor of South Asian History at Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut, Vijay Prashad, commented on the India-based French journalist François Gautier. He wrote “Hindu Holocaust?”, published on www.newsindia-times.com More...