The Pioneer carried a slightly modified version of my op-ed yesterday. Here is the original version.
Shivraj Patil’s open admission of having “Soniaji’s blessings” is yet another new low that the Congress party has sunk to. What “Soniaji’s blessings” mean is an open secret, nay, acknowledgment of dynastic sycophancy, which goes by the name of [...]
I know the title of this post will get all kinds of visitors to this blog but everything has a price. Okay, so this is about sex in Indian art, something I might have touched upon mostly in my posts on M.F. Hussain.
One of the first cries in the defence of Hussain is how sex [...]
The news of “braveheart” MC Sharma’s tragic death is a few hours old now. Another story of a firehearted warrior dying on the call of duty, etc. Three points strike immediately.
Was his death really necessary?
How many more MC Sharmas are we prepared to lose this way considering that the current crop of clowns ruling us [...]
I know Nehru’s legacy as a person, patriot, freedom fighter, and Prime Minister has been examined to death. By both his admirers and arch-critics. In the Indian landscape of the history-political books, the Nehru-as-God books severely outnumber those that critically examine him. The “critical editions” are mostly not subject to review. For example, a book [...]
After about seven years of almost nonstop blogging, I have reached a decisive turn. I won’t stop this blog or anything. I’ll continue being rude but much less often.
However, I’ve decided to turn to studying more in depth, and writing on the philosophical concepts that shaped Indian thought. This includes everything from Vedanta to [...]
This attack is an advance Deepavali gift to the Indian people from the kind folks of the Indian Mujahideen. I can picture a top gun of the IM smiling victoriously at yet another successful operation of dispatching kafirs to hell. But to us kafirs what better gift can we get on the festival of lights? [...]
Has the real story of the Indian freedom struggle been told? If no, why do you think it is so? And how have so many people for so many years uncritically accepted the version of this story in currency even to this day?
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