October 9, 2008 – 1:29 am
It is Vijayadashami here in Karnataka, a hallowed tradition that celebrates both the victory and renewal of the spirit of Sanatana Dharma in South India. A tradition handed down to us from the time Harihara established the Vijaynagar empire after defeating the marauding Islamic armies that threatened to sweep the entire South India. It won’t [...]
October 8, 2008 – 11:42 pm
The media machine with the full backing of the secular establishment is furiously spitting in the hope of running away. The Outlook front page is dripping with hate-everything-Hindu articles. It has fittingly roped in that house nigger par excellence, Pankaj Mishra to idyllically speculate on Kashmir and a Modi-ruled India. And a long-buried Rajinder Puri [...]
October 6, 2008 – 1:22 am
This month’s Pragati is out! Although I’m in the middle of reading it completely, I highly recommend that you download it pronto. It carries a potpourri of power-packed articles from the disaster that the US economy has become to strategies on combating terrorism (a personal favourite) right down to some hard-nosed analysis on policy.
October 6, 2008 – 12:15 am
This post is more an addendum to Barbar Indian’s brilliant analysis of the Slimes’ shocking duplicity in covering the persistent violence at Kandhamal. For more than a few weeks, the Slimes has been running a relentless campaign on Kandhamal on its front page (in the printed edition) with the focus always on the plight of [...]
October 1, 2008 – 12:51 pm
The original article was titled Playing with Fire in Karnataka. Comments welcome.
Burden of the cross
Sandeep B
Evangelists have been using dirty tricks in Karnataka to convert vulnerable Hindus. The literature that is being used to propagate Christianity is repulsive: Denigrating Hindu gods and goddesses has become the standard practice of preachers flush with foreign [...]
October 1, 2008 – 12:26 pm
There seems to be a problem with my site’s bandwidth. I’m working on resolving it so that it doesn’t recur. Thanks for your patience. Regular programming continues.
September 23, 2008 – 10:39 am
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 [...]
September 21, 2008 – 3:06 am
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 [...]
September 20, 2008 – 11:59 pm
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 [...]
September 19, 2008 – 5:49 pm
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 [...]
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Now that the Nanavati Report is Out…
The media machine with the full backing of the secular establishment is furiously spitting in the hope of running away. The Outlook front page is dripping with hate-everything-Hindu articles. It has fittingly roped in that house nigger par excellence, Pankaj Mishra to idyllically speculate on Kashmir and a Modi-ruled India. And a long-buried Rajinder Puri [...]