Writing about the recently-concluded Hampi festival, the SpIndian Express boldly asks:
Who’s the Charioteer?
The Hampi festival is an annual cultural extravaganza that began 15 years ago with the Hampi Ustav in 1995. This year’s festival holds a special significance because it marks the 500th year of Sri Krishnadevaraya’s coronation in 1509-10. But the festival per se [...]
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 [...]
Preface
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has consistently earned high rankings in the world as the 12th best public university and inside the US, as the 2nd best, and boasts of being affiliated with several Nobel lauretes. Its noble motto, “let there be light” has echoes from the Vedic Tamasoma Jyotirgamaya. A University that [...]
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.
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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 media, yet [...]
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 same, [...]
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 [...]
This was published today in the Pioneer. Even the merest mention of cow, Sanskrit, and temple will cause massive seizures in secular quarters.
Comments and criticism welcome as always.
This appeared in the Pioneer on Thursday (18 June 2009). Comments and criticism welcome as always.
Congress’s stealth Stalinism
Sandeep B
Government’s recent proposal to impose censorship on online news portals, Websites and blogs smacks of fear and insecurity similar. It reminds us of the dark days of the Emergency
Something nasty went unheard, buried beneath the cacophony celebrating [...]
The ghastly ghost of Nehru’s unsullied love for Stalinist Russia continues to haunt us. His intolerance to criticism spilled over to the next generation culminating in the Emergency. While Nehru at least concealed his intolerance under a carefully-cultivated outward sophistication, his daughter was quite frank in showing her sense of entitlement to rule India.
The Congress [...]
