Christodas Gandhi, a retired IAS officer from Tamil Nadu, said on a live TV debate that “Secularism means having the right to hit Lord Rama with slippers”. He was taking part…
बहुत समय से भारत से संबंधित (अकादमिक व सामान्य) लेखों में पश्चिमी दृष्टिकोण का प्रभाव रहा है। इन दिनों भारत के भीतर इस क्षेत्र में पश्चिमीकरण एवं पश्चिम की दखल…
Professor Sheldon Pollock’s agency to redefine, and thereby attempt to limit, what will be seen as ‘classical’, ’classic’ about Bharat’s literature, and his centrality to the grand mission of presenting…
When Harvard University created a major new initiative called the Harvard Kumbh Mela Project, Hindus naturally became impressed and proud. After all, it brought global importance to our heritage. However,…
Gandhi’s prescriptions for Hindus living with Muslims in their midst Prime Minister Modi immediately after returning to Bharat after his tour of African nations chaired a high level meeting with…
The newsweekly India Today has put an inappropriate image of Baba Ramdev doing a yoga asana on its cover page. The magazine chose an unusual photo of Baba Ramdev for its cover…
Muslim preachers like Zakir Naik are afforded respect even when teaching intolerance and excusing terrorism. Hindu gurus like Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, on the contrary, are criticized and even sued…
I will start with a powerful analogy. Imagine, hypothetically, that the streets in your neighbourhood are very dirty. This is because garbage was being dumped by people who did not…
When a people become uneducated about their own heritage, deracinated and unaware, it should not come as a surprise when perverts and impostors come to be regarded as authorities of that…