Archive for category Indian Politics'
Slimes Productions proudly presents! Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara. This 16-minute digital affront from the Slimes of India group singlehandedly eclipses the candle-lit darkness of the eminent dolts who were awarded various Lotus Awards for Family Loyalty on Republic Day. The Slimes of India is on an urgent mission to show ‘em who’s the worst. [...]
Wednesday, 27. January 2010 | 23 comments »
Today is Makara Sankranti, celebrated across India to both herald the beginning of longer days, and reap the harvest of months of backbreaking work in the fields. But the greater significance of Makara Sankranti like most Hindu festivals, is to highlight another living instance of the amazing cultural unity of India. People in Karnataka exchange [...]
Thursday, 14. January 2010 | 77 comments »
Tags: Attack on Sanatana Dharma, Cultural Unity of India, Defense of Hinduism, Defense of Santana Dharma, Dharma, Hindu, History, Indian Philosophy, Indian Politics, Makara Sankranti, Pseudosecularism, Pseudosecularism Hall of Shame, Response of Hinduism to Challenges, Sanatana Dharma, Sankranti, Strength of Hinduism, Strength of Sanatana Dharma
A person’s true culture often emerges involuntarily in two circumstances. One when he is drunk and the other, when he is senile. We’ve never seen Deve Gowda speaking when he was inebriated so it’s both logical and safe to assume that his senility wrenched out his true culture. The political mudslinging over the NICE project [...]
Tuesday, 12. January 2010 | 6 comments »
A brief pictorial representation showing the links between the weapons and how they’re connected. Legend: The ones in large font in Red show the biggest threats. Click here to view the full size of the image.
Monday, 4. January 2010 | 14 comments »
Tags: Christian Watch, Hinduism, Hindus are bled by a 1000 cuts, India, Islam Watch, Politics, Terrorism, Threats to Hindus
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 [...]
Wednesday, 16. December 2009 | 45 comments »
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. [...]
Monday, 7. December 2009 | 50 comments »
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 [...]
Saturday, 14. November 2009 | 25 comments »
Introduction A pattern seems to have emerged over the past decade or so in the US. Each time any U.S-based Hindu organization(s) hosts a fairly well-attended event, alarm bells sound off from the expected quarters. These expected quarters wake up and emit a major stink about the–yawn–dreaded Hindu communalism/fascism/quest for revenge… The yarn is the [...]
Friday, 25. September 2009 | 28 comments »
Tags: American Hindus, Commentary, Communism Watch, Communists Watch, Hindu Holocaust, History, Indian History, Indian Politics, Islam Watch, NRIs, Politics, Pseudosecularism Hall of Shame, Romila Thapar, US, Vijay Prashad, Whitewasing Islam
A few weeks ago, I made a hurried list that broadly categorized contemporary Hindus based on certain general parameters. Gurcharan Das of India Unbound fame adds to this list by slotting himself into a new category: Liberal Hindu. Much of what he says in that post is along familiar, “safe Hindu” lines but he does [...]
Wednesday, 16. September 2009 | 116 comments »
Tags: Brown Sahib, Commentary, Dharma, Gurcharan Das, Hindu Nationalism, Hinduism, Hindutva, History, India, Indian Philosophy, Indian Politics, Politics, Pseudosecularism, Sanatana Dharma, Society & Culture, Tradition
Hindu nationalism…is a self-description used in the post-Independence period by the main political embodiments of Hindu revivalism, the Hindu Mahasabha…the Jana Singh…and the BJP…in India, “nationalism” doesn’t have the negative connotations which it has in Western intellectual circles. On the contrary, the term is hallowed by its assocation with the freedom movement. It is also [...]
Sunday, 30. August 2009 | 9 comments »
Tags: 1947, Ashis Nandy, Fake Psychologist, Hinduism, India, Indian Politics, Jinnah, Partition, Politics, Pseudosecularism Hall of Shame, Secularism, Substandard Analysis