Every application by a divorced woman under section 125… of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, pending before a magistrate on the commencement of this Act shall, notwithstanding anything contained in that code… be disposed of by such magistrate in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

This quote is from that spectacular, Congress party-created monster [...]

It’s that time of the year again. You might want to check where and how it all started or simply scan the awardees that made it to the 2008 list. Presenting the Most Loathsome People of India circa 2009. Truth be told, the folks who made it this year fiercely vied with each other in [...]

Vir Sanghvi takes an (un)welcome break from his culinary columns and embarks on a noble mission of educating fellow Indians about the virtues of secularism in the tenor we are familiar with. The occasion is rather fitting: December 6, the 17th anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition. His heartwarming approach actually melted my heart. Really. [...]

For those who of you not in the Twitter world, here’s a great illustration of why serious bloggers give a huge margin of humor and chagrin to the media. A certain Mr. Jaideep Kulkarni asked NDTV’s news anchor, Vishnu Som the following question:

@VishnuNDTV why should we care if they ban Minaret or a mosque. Does [...]

Overdoing anything often results in several consequences. Among other things, the grand dignity of Brutus will suddenly resemble the character of the idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing. The latest exhibit: Mallika Sarabhai’s on-stage antics in the recently-concluded TED India event hosted at Mysore.
I admire the work TED is doing. It has [...]

I’m not going to mourn the dead on the first anniversary of 26/11 because as this superb article shows, nothing has pretty much changed over the past year. We lack leadership and courage at all levels. Our callous, inept, and spineless government is simply relieved that there hasn’t been another terror attack since then. Mourning [...]

Introduction
Wendy Doniger has bestowed a rather flippant interview in Outlook India on the eve of the release of her new book, The Hindus: An Alternative History. The title is sufficiently pompous, entirely faithful to Wendy Doniger’s career as an Indologist. Aditi Banerjee responded with a comprehensive rejoinder that yet again demonstrated Wendy’s credentials as an [...]

Question: What happens when lunacy mates with charlatanism?
Answer: It produces Kancha Ilaiah.
By writing this post, I’m actually dignifying this freeloader and Nth rate “scholar”  who has built a glorious career on the edifice naked hatred of Hinduism. It is not so much to “respond” to his venomous fulminations than to observe how the media, yet [...]

Introduction
Thanks to Barbar Indian for inspiring this post.
Daniel Pipes, in an old article on modernization, asserts that you don’t really need to Westernize in order to modernize. The article is notable for the fact that he has not clearly defined the two very terms that are central to his thesis: Modernization and Westernization. Much of [...]

The Slimes reports that

Thousands of people thronged a south Mumbai church on Monday to see water oozing out a cross and to collect what they believed was holy water, though church officials shied away from giving the occurrence any name.

People being Indian people, they were quick to associate the occurrence with the supernatural/Godly/Divine. And the [...]