आरएसएस के बहाने हिन्दू पहचान से विलग होने की हठ
दो दिन पहले शिरोमणि गुरुद्वारा प्रबंध कमेटी की ओर से एक प्रस्ताव पारित किया गया, जिसमें यह कहा गया कि आरएसएस देश को हिन्दू राष्ट्र बनाने की कोशिश कर रहा…
Colonial Consciousness
Modern Hindus’ obsessive virtue signaling disorder
Hindus offer a fascinating study of how 1 billion people with a unique history of battling genocidal colonisers for over a millennia and surviving, can exhibit such self-harming behavior after…
Public holiday, total shutdown in Mizoram to celebrate ‘Missionary Day’; grim trailer for states like AP?
In a chilling reminder of how societies can turn on themselves and start celebrating their former colonisers, the state of Mizoram on Monday observed ‘Missionary Day’ to “commemorate the 127th…
2 contrasts and 1 similarity in reactions to Samuel Paty and Kamlesh Tiwari murders
History teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded in a Paris suburb on Friday for showing pupils cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Mohammed that were earlier published by the satirical magazine Charlie…
China’s hilarious loudspeaker propaganda at LAC reflects frustration at failure of their Indian proxies
The Chinese Army is now trying a new trick to lower the morale of Bharatiya Army troops during the ongoing stand-off between both Armies: loudspeakers blaring out Hindi messages against…
Colonizers were monsters in their own time
The nine-year-olds taken as sex slaves by Christopher Columbus were not like ‘this is a great guy’. While they were being raped or beaten and thrown overboard, they certainly knew that these men were…
Why ‘Language Politics’ is toxic for Hindu civilisation
Since the time of independence, Bharat has not had any serious or meaningful approach towards language. As a result, many indigenous languages of Bharat are…
Reforming Indian Bureaucracy- Part I: The current system and its critique
The victory of Narendra Modi in 2014 brought with it countless expectations. Bureaucratic reform was one among these. The first term saw limited action on this front, but since the…
A liberating vision: Rediscovering Indic heritage through a dharmic lens
Exploring Indic heritage and its current reality through the lens of dharma was a provocative yet profound dialogue on the need to adopt a decolonised dharmic lens to view Indic heritage and traditions
Towards temple autonomy: Padmanabhaswamy temple verdict shows the way
We live in the worst of times; we live in the best of times. If recent developments such as the Review Petition of the Sabarimala Temple, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple verdict…