(East) Indian Art and Caribbean Aesthetics
The following is a synopsis of a paper I presented recently at the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA). It was presented at UWI’s Department of Creative and Festival Arts in…
Composite Culture
Sabarimala row: Increasingly, Hindus pledge to not contribute to Hundis in Government temples
On the ground in Kerala, Sabarimala is a far bigger issue than even a politcally aware Hindu outside its cultural milieu might conclude. The bizzare semi-blackout by the Kerala media, the relatively…
Owaisi’s AIMIM Forces Party MLA Waris Pathan to Apologize for Chanting ‘Ganpati Bappa Morya’
In yet another episode demonstrating the one-way flow of the apocryphal Ganga-Jamuni-tehzeeb or ‘composite culture’ in the country, Muslim hardliner MLA Waris Pathan was forced to apologize for merely chanting…
Deoband Madrassa Declares Muslim Leader ‘Apostate’ for Offering Prayers at Hanuman Temple
A Sunni Islamic seminary in Deoband has declared the BJP MLC Bukkhal Nawab as `Murtid’ (apostate) for paying obeisance to Sri Hanuman at a temple in Lucknow, the Daily Pioneer…
4 Communal Attacks During Holi Unmask Farce of #GangaJamuniTehzeeb
One of the oft-repeated assertions of our psuedo-seculars is the existence of a ‘composite culture’ which they term ‘Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb’. We are told by leftist historians that this culture took…