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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]