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Hinduism Archive
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Was he Merely a Great Maratha or the Hero of Hindu Hearts?
Posted on November 20, 2012 | 29 CommentsNote: This is a translation of Pratap Simha’s piece that appeared in Kannada Prabha on November 19, 2012. But who was he really? Do we go by the opinions of analysts who put him on par with political cartoonists like R.K. Laxman? Or, barring Times... -
Varsha Will Live On
Posted on October 8, 2012 | 35 CommentsAn obituary is the mightiest writer’s block. And so this shan’t be an obituary. One writes obituaries to dead people. Varsha Bhosle will live forever. Her bodily death is, in the highest tradition of Sanatana Dharma, but a temporary station in an eternal journey. Speculations... -
Why Blame Others When Hindus Themselves are Cowards?
Posted on August 31, 2012 | 41 CommentsNOTE: This is my translation of Pratap Simha’s piece titled Hindugale Haedigalaagiruvaaga Anyarannu Doori Phalavenu that appeared in Kannada Prabha on August 25, 2012. As always, comments and criticism are welcome. It has been called brain drain or flight of talent. Much noise has been... -
Exploiting Dalits in the Name of Beef
Posted on April 20, 2012 | 68 CommentsIntroduction I’d have been surprised if this hadn’t happened at Osmania university. It was past midnight on Sunday when the organisers of the festival located one of the students who strongly opposed inclusion of beef in the menu and stabbed him. They also torched a... -
Father, Spare us Thy Ignorant Sermon
Posted on February 21, 2012 | 81 CommentsFirst, credit where it is due: sincere thanks to my all-knowing Twitter friends Gopi and Ranganaathan for bringing this to my attention. Preface A certain Father Dominic Emmanuel seems to have taken it upon himself to educate the Honourable Justices of the Bhopal high court... -
Introducing Prekshaa
Posted on June 17, 2010 | 26 CommentsAn average, devout Hindu knows next to nothing about Hinduism while his Muslim or Christian counterparts know enough to defend their respective faiths. And so the average devout Hindu does one of these two: Feels ashamed and/or scared to admit in public that he is... -
How Hindus are bled by a 1000 cuts
Posted on January 4, 2010 | 22 CommentsA 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. Tweet -
December 8, Vir Sanghvi for Dummies
Posted on December 8, 2009 | 69 CommentsVir Sanghvi takes an (un)welcome break from his culinary columns and embarks on a noble mission of educating fellow Indians about the virtues of secularism in the tenor we are familiar with. The occasion is rather fitting: December 6, the 17th anniversary of the Babri... -
Wendy Doniger is a Syndrome
Posted on November 25, 2009 | 125 CommentsIntroduction Wendy Doniger has bestowed a rather flippant interview in Outlook India on the eve of the release of her new book, The Hindus: An Alternative History. The title is sufficiently pompous, entirely faithful to Wendy Doniger’s career as an Indologist. Aditi Banerjee responded with... -
Offstumped in a New Avatar
Posted on October 3, 2009 | 3 CommentsWith reasonable assumption, I can safely say that regular readers of this blog were also readers of Offstumped in its previous incarnation as part of the excellent Indian National Interest umbrella of blogs. It was hugely popular for informed political and poll analysis, notable for... -
Gurcharan Das and the Liberal Hindu
Posted on September 16, 2009 | 116 CommentsA 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... -
The Banality of the Phonies
Posted on August 30, 2009 | 9 CommentsHindu 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...