Commentary
Dear Mr. Ramachandra Guha…Cont’d
Via the Acorn, who in this excellent short-shrift to cricket-commentator-turned-pseudo Historian, Ramachandra Guha, adequately delivers the treatment the piece deserves. From the paragraph Nitin quotes,
We need to repair, one by one, the institutions that have safeguarded our unity amidst diversity…
I challenge Mr. Guha to name exactly one institution that has done all these.
Islamic Republic of Kashmir Redux
The hullaballoo over the Amarnath land controversy amuses me. I fail to understand the wail of the idiots who still think Kashmir is part of India. They have forgotten that Kashmir is governed by the Shariat law. Hindus in Kashmir are zimmis; only, they have the luxury of not paying the jaziya tax–at least, not […]
Political Incorrectness at its Best
In a superb article, Jakod De Roover rips apart the European Parliament’s presumptuous self-righteousness, which has compelled them to “come out with a policy statement” on how caste still rules India.
Recently, the European Parliament hosted a meeting on “caste discrimination in South Asia”. At the meeting, participants stated that “India is being ruled by castes […]
Mosque Demolition Meets Deathly Silence
This mosque demolition strangely stirred extremely feeble protests–if you can call them that.
Chinese authorities in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have demolished a mosque for refusing to put up signs in support of this August’s Beijing Olympics, an exiled group said on Monday.
China has characteristically cared a whit for the dreaded PR impact. […]
Go Well Sir
Another of the last of the giants from another era is no more.
Go well sir. May your death teach why patriotism is not an ugly word, and what war really means.
Recalling a Train Journey
About three years ago, Dilip D’Souza concluded that liberalization had done little to improve India’s economy. I had pointed out that his conclusion was fantastic because it was based on just one train journey and a few anecdotal evidences.
He now rarely writes about the economy but that shouldn’t deter me from ruminating on the […]
Dissecting Contextual Morality: Part 3
Read Part 1
After observing how AKR leaves us confounded with academic jargon and widely deviating from his original theme, I’ll continue the same examination a tad more. A commenter helpfully added some valuable information about AKR’s corruption of the ullurai concept.
The focus is slightly different in this case.
AKR presents a very clear understanding of a […]
Did you say Sedition?
Barbar Indians’ latest post carries an interesting observation
The first involves the following statement by Narendra Modi:
“I want to tell the government in Delhi, lets sign a year-long pact, you don’t take any money from us and don’t give us any aid. And then we will show the Centre how we run the state. You all […]
Dissecting Contextual Morality: Part 2
I had concluded the previous post with a note on AKR’s understanding of Hindu ethics and traditional expositions on Dharma. He notes that
Each addition is really a subtraction from any universal law. There is not much left of an absolute or common (sadharana) dharma which the texts speak of, if at all, as a last […]
Dissecting Contextual Morality : Part 1
Preface
In an interesting article on Narendra Modi, TCA Srinivasa-Raghavan (link courtesy Nitin) concludes that contextual morality is the one magic explanation for all ills that have plagued India for more than 100 years. He says
…Narendra Modi is our own creation, of liberals, conservatives, fascists, communists and every other man jack of us. He is not […]