5 Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces in south Kashmir on Sunday, and 5 civilians died during clashes between ‘protesters’ and security forces near the…
In the context of the controversy that Audrey Truschke, Assistant Professor of South Asian history at Rutgers University in the USA, created by her abuse of Shri Ram and Laxman,…
Around 1995, in a meeting of Hindutvavadis, one member observed that those occupying the intellectual space often authenticated the electoral programmes, particularly the minority assessment and casteism, of the political…
The Dean of Ambedkar University Delhi’s (AUD) law school, Lawrence Liang has been found guilty of sexually harassing a PhD student by the university’s Committee for Protection from Sexual Harassment…
In a circular dated 10 January, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has made a minimum of 75 per cent attendance compulsory for all students to avail of scholarships and fellowships, based on the recommendations…
It seems difficult for observers to abstract from the immediate hurly burly of daily political life and the fascination it evokes to focus on complex long-term processes of historic significance…
In the last week of October 2017, the Tamilnadu government headed by Mr. Edappadi K. Palaniswami announced ₹10 crore towards the plan initiated by two US-based Tamil enthusiasts, cardiologist Dr. Vijay Janakiraman and oncologist…
One of the phenomena that continues to puzzle me is why do even open and free societies with enduring democratic traditions allow Communist ideology on their soil? What kind of nation allows the subsidising of violent revolutions from within, using taxpayer money?
The Empire consists of those variously called Nehruvian Elite, Delhi Darbaris, or just Old Elite (defined by Surjit Bhallas as ‘politicians, corporates, left-intellectuals, academics’). A common feature amongst them is…
The History In contrast with the clash of civilizations now being popularized, I would much rather propose a dialog among them. But what are the historical reasons for lack of this dialog, and…