SC woke up on Shaheen Bagh after damage was done
The emphatic judgement delivered on October 7 by a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul on the untenability of Shaheen Bagh like protests should…
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Farooq Abdullah declares “Peoples’ Alliance for Gupkar Declaration” : A new Hurriyat in the making ?
Political parties based in Kashmir valley of the Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory including National Conference led by Abdullah family, People’s Democratic Party led by Mufti family and Kashmir People’s…
Dear Dr. Harsh Vardhan, visiting pandals and temples to celebrate festivals is not ‘ostentatious’
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan recently called for extra precautions during the upcoming Hindu festival season and commented, “no religion or God lays down that religious events must be celebrated…
The Wire columnist claims that Nathpanthis and Yogi Adityanath are not Hindu : what is the truth ?
A recent article in propaganda portal The Wire, by a controversial American scholar named Christine Marrewa-Karwoski piqued my interest. I had seen her tweets about the Nath Sampradaya and Yogi…
Christian conversion in Punjab : the conversion empire of Ankur Narula and its funding
In the Jalandhar district of Punjab, there is a small village called Khambra. A non-government organisation named Spiritual Welfare Society is headquartered in Khambra. The NGO is headed by one…
The BJP still cannot do without Nitish in Bihar
The countdown to the three-phased 2020 assembly poll in Bihar beginning October 28 is turning out to be singular even by the state’s own unpredictably chaotic standards. The political churn…
If the FCRA Bill kills anti-Bharat NGOs, so be it
The Opposition’s efforts to stir trouble over the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2020, passed by the Rajya Sabha on September 22 on the ground that it will kill the…
Aravind Subramanyam: A sacred quest of a Shasta devotee
Temple activist, scholar, researcher and author of ten books on the Shasta tradition, Shri V. Aravind Subramanyam’s Maha Shasta Vijayam is a 500-page Purana on the Shasta traditions…
Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”
The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival Gathering,…
“Brown women writers’ voices matter!”: An interview with Dr. Prerna Malhotra
The book Delhi Riots 2020: The untold story by Monika Arora, well known Supreme Court advocate, Dr. Sonali Chitalkar, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Miranda House, University of Delhi; and…