Indian Culture & History: Whose Narrative Should It Be- 2
[contextly_sidebar id=”cehr5yAKWI4dX2h76yWEGL5QqxyDyCEZ”] In Part 1, I discussed the Indigenous and Ambedkar’s views of our culture and history. The Indigenous view covered how the sages viewed our More...
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...
History, Pride and Textbooks
History is often called the new battlefield. It figures prominently in online columns and on television debates. Of late, there have been great observations by Dr. David Frawley and Sandeep Balakrishna in their More...
Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 28 June-5 July 2015
1. Marxist Extremism: Swayamsevak Succumbs to Injuries Report: TS Babu, a victim of Marxist extremism for over a year, succumbed to his injuries. He was 50. The end came on Saturday in his home in Pathiyurkala. More...
The definitive Ayodhya chronicle
There are very few publications giving a factual account of historical facts underlying the Ayodhya controversy. Yet this controversy has played a decisive role in recent Indian politics, giving the BJP the electoral More...
Dispelling the myth of Akbar the Great
Introduction The 15 July 2004 edition of the Ananda Bazar Patrika carried an article ‘Mata binimoyer mukto ganotantroei uttorener path,batlalen Amartya’ (‘Exchange of opinions as practiced in liberal democracy More...