Pollock’s Ramayana: A Review- II
The concluding part of the review of Prof Sheldon Pollock’s “Ramayana and Political Imagination in India” deals with “Temple cult theory” and refutes the political nexus between worship of Rama (Temple More...
Pollock’s Ramayana: A Review- I
Published in the backdrop of 1990 and 1992 communal riots of India, Professor Sheldon Pollock’s “Ramayana and Political imagination of India” is a classic example of misinterpretation of Indian culture and More...
Response to Prof Sheldon Pollock’s interview published in Indian Express
Once again Prof Pollock has courted controversy by touching upon sensitive topics. His interview as published in Indian Express on May 31, 2018 has raised several eyebrows and buffeted social media discussions. More...
The Making of Early Kashmir – The Making of a New Literary Star
The Making of Early Kashmir: Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini by Shonaleeka Kaul is available for purchase on Amazon. Sanskrit, the most defining characteristic of Indic civilization, is not just a language. More...
Does Rutgers University promote White Supremacy and Hinduphobia?
Why is it that the West thinks that it is game to put down anything Hindu? Why is there such hatred among its population towards the people of the third biggest religion in the World, which has millenniums of unbroken More...
Is Ramayana oppressive?
I In Rajiv Malhotra’s ‘The Battle for Sanskrit’, Sheldon Pollock’s views on Ramayana are critically analyzed. Here, in this article, I wish to give my own critical views regarding some of Sheldon Pollock’s More...
An Open Letter to Ananya Vajpeyi on Sanskrit
Dear Ananya, On a first look, I could have safely ignored your article published in World Policy Journal as just another leftist rant, but since you mentioned JNU and its Sanskrit center, I had to jot down some More...
10 Excerpts from Sheldon Pollock’s interview to Tehelka
The following are excerpts from an interview that Sheldon Pollock, currently the head of the Murty Classical Library of India gave to Tehelka some time in 2011. Videos of the interview titled “Sheldon Pollock More...