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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
It is 25 years and three days after Indira Gandhi was assassinated. Expectedly, most prominent newspapers carried a “heritage” piece on arguably the most important political figure in post-Independence history. Of all pieces I read, two articles stand out as interesting for two different reasons.
The first, by Subramanian Swamy. This piece is interesting only because [...]
1971 or ‘72. I had newly returned to Mysore. The Kannada translation of the Telugu Digambara poetry collection had just been published. The release function was held in Mysore at the public taxi stand. A hotel waiter was the chief guest to inaugurate the occasion. I was present there. The organizer, in his speech, announced [...]
