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Festival of the Political Sissies
Posted on January 26, 2013 | 21 CommentsLast year around this time I described how the Jaipur Literature Festival was a festival of the politically correct sissies. I should’ve also mentioned in that piece that it was just one step away from the next logical stage it would reach: from being politically... -
The Rape of Our Epics: Conclusion
Posted on January 21, 2013 | 124 CommentsRead the previous parts: 1, 2, 3, and 4. Here are my tweets that started it all: 1. Nilanjana Roy’s lesbian fantasies about Shurpanakha: http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/nilanjana-s-roywoman-alone-inforest/498048/ …. Nothing new. She’s the latest fantasizing kid on the block. 2. A woman who lusts after another woman’s husband... -
The Rape of Our Epics: Part 4
Posted on January 18, 2013 | 33 CommentsRead the previous parts: 1, 2, and 3. So where were we? Popular discussion? Niyoga? No…well, yes, we were at the three princesses: Amba, Ambika and Ambalika. Pardon my confusion. I mean, confusion happens when Nilanjana Roy mixes up timelines. Imagine my plight: she begins... -
The Rape of Our Epics: Part 3
Posted on January 16, 2013 | 42 CommentsRead Parts 1 and 2. After trying to force-fit Draupadi into the feminist mould, Nilanjana Roy sets her sights on Amba, Ambika and Ambalika in yet another extremely revealing paragraph. Amba is, again, silenced in popular discussion, and yet her story remains both remarkable and... -
The Rape of Our Epics: Part 2
Posted on January 14, 2013 | 33 CommentsIs Draupadi Rarely Referenced? After failing to show how Sita’s abduction by Ravana and her abandonment by Rama qualify as “rape” and/or “sexual assault,” Nilanjana Roy turns to Draupadi whom she characterizes as follows: Draupadi’s story is rarely referenced, though it is powerfully told in... -
The Rape of Our Epics: Part 1
Posted on January 14, 2013 | 49 CommentsIntroduction Nilanjana Roy’s Business Standard piece on Jan 08, 2013 entitled A woman alone in the forest is just the latest in what has become a much-lauded fad. A fad whose staple diet consists of a distorted reading of Indian epics, misinterpretations aplenty, sleights of... -
Vacuous Media Sleazeballs Moralize Against Mohan Bhagwat
Posted on January 8, 2013 | 49 CommentsMy dictum that the Indian English media is a whore with none of the ethics of a whore has been proven correct again. And so the latest proof of its venal whoredom happens to be a barefaced lie, a shameless hoax, which in the pre-Internet... -
Marxist-Sociologist Nutjob Wanks off on the Pages of the Madras Marxist Rag
Posted on January 5, 2013 | 27 CommentsThis piece was published on Centre Right India yesterday. Comments and criticism welcome as always. Thank God I am not in Madras. If I were, my hands would’ve gotten dirty the moment I flipped to that bilious page of the Madras Mount Road Marxist Rag.... -
The Enduring Relevance of Koenraad Elst
Posted on December 29, 2012 | 25 CommentsDisclaimer: This piece is going to piss off a lot of people. I mean no offence but if you do take offence, I consider it a deed well done. One of the defining sentences in the various analyses of post-Independence Hindu revivalism, which is also... -
Modi the Great!
Posted on December 21, 2012 | 25 CommentsThis is a translation of my own piece published in the Sunday Special Supplement of Kannada Prabha on December 16, 2012. I thought this piece would be a fitting tribute to Modi’s stupendous and third consecutive electoral success in the Gujarat 2012 assembly polls. Comments... -
Most Loathsome People of India: 2012
Posted on December 14, 2012 | 33 CommentsAnd so it’s time to publish this blog’s only recurring feature. The list of the Most Loathsome Indians of 2012 is short this time simply because loathsomeness has become a way of life. Some usual names that figure pretty much every year have been omitted.... -
The Case Against Dishonesty
Posted on December 10, 2012 | 34 CommentsMy feelings for the multi-headed and ever-reverse-evolving beast called the Indian National Interest alias Takshashila alias…whatever its next avatar…have similarly evolved over the past 5-6 years. In the reverse. Currently, I feel infinite pity. It could change depending on what shape they’ll take tomorrow. From...