A Temple for Romila Thapar?
The recent outrage over JNU administration’s communication to noted historian Romila Thapar to submit her updated CV to help the administration review the possibility of her continuation as Professor Emeritus (an More...
Left-Liberals as passionate reactionaries- Deconstructing the Romila Thapar incident
The human mind is controlled primarily by two psychological phenomena – reason & passion. These concepts were acknowledged in the great ideological debate between the arch proponents of Classical Liberalism More...
Defining Urban Naxal: A Tribute to Prof. Romila Thapar
The current debate revolving around “urban naxals” received a heightened attention owing to the following statement by Prof. Romila Thapar, an eminent historian. “We were all born Indians, lived as Indians 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...
Contemporary Evangelism and the Resurrection of the Colonial Politics of Race, Caste and Religion
‘’The modern writing of Indian history developed during the last two centuries. The needs of these times had encouraged the adoption of certain attitudes and theories about Indian Past…….some of these stereotypes More...
Where was Nayantara Sahgal when India Actually Needed Her?
When the news about Jawaharlal Nehru’s niece Nayantara Sahgal returning the “prestigious” Sahitya Akademi Award began to trend on Twitter the Twitter handle @AmartyaTalks aptly remarked: I read that Nehru’s More...
Examining the Marxist Version of India’s Past
The 18 September 2015 print edition of the Marxist fortnightly Frontline cover story was a detailed interview of Marxist historian Romila Thapar conducted by Ranabir Chakravarti, Professor of Ancient History at More...
Irfan Habib still searching for the Saraswati River
But a library shelf filled with contemporary geographical and historical research about the Sindhu-Saraswati [aka] Harappan [aka] IVC has been right under his nose for twenty-five years! In the 17 April edition More...
Denying the existence of the Saraswati River akin to denying gravity
Since his retirement from a life of service at NCERT, Arjun Dev was in the forefront condemning the BJP textbooks. Arjun Dev wrote in an article that appeared in Mainstream, November 9, 2002 Pushing the Parivar More...
Eight anti-India Intellectuals and Academics you must be Aware of
1. Angana Chatterji Books: Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India’s Present; Narratives from Orissa Land and Justice: The Struggle for Cultural Survival in Orissa Pronouncements: In Gujarat, Hindu extremists More...