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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... -
How the Hatred Oozes
Posted on September 14, 2009 | 16 CommentsNewspapers give space to writers like Khushwant Singh mostly for antique value. I read this piece with the same mindset as I approach an antique piece: possibly priceless but I won’t risk buying it. Singh has made no secret of his support for the Congress... -
Sunday Special: Excerpts from an Autobiography: 3
Posted on September 7, 2009 | 6 CommentsMy friends felt sorry for me when they heard that the Principal had rejected my scholarship. “Had you told us this earlier, we’d have stopped you from meeting him. The Principal gives any number of scholarships and freeships if you get a letter from Swamiji... -
How Slayers are Sainted
Posted on September 4, 2009 | 120 CommentsI rarely watch news channels. I’d rather go to a local car tinkering garage if I was that desperate for noise. I made an exception today because I fully wanted to experience the expected orgy of insanity that I was sure would be unleashed when... -
Love Jihad & the Clash of Monotheisms
Posted on September 1, 2009 | 80 CommentsAssuming there are still visible traces of a vibrant civic society and media left in the US, what’d be the reaction to an incident like this? (link courtesy: JK) The Kerala High Court on Friday released two girls, who were allegedly detained for religious conversion,... -
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... -
My Op-ed in Pioneer: Surpassing Goebbels
Posted on August 19, 2009 | 9 CommentsThis was published in the Pioneer today about the USCIRF India chapter report released last week. Comments and criticism welcome as always. Surpassing Goebbels Sandeep B US uses fiction to slam freedom in India The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom’s India Chapter report... -
Sunday Special: Excerpts from an Autobiography : 2
Posted on August 16, 2009 | 28 CommentsSoon after, I wrote Jalapaata (Waterfall) and Tabbaliyu Neenaade Magane (You have been orphaned, my Son). A singular experience inspired both these works. A revolution of sorts was brewing in the cooperative sector in the Kaira district, which not just bettered the lives of the... -
Sunday Special: Excerpts from an Autobiography: 1
Posted on August 8, 2009 | 29 CommentsWhen I landed in Delhi sometime in the January of 1967, Indira Gandhi was already ensconced in power…almost every other day witnessed hordes of “associations”–the Footpath Vendors Association, the Autorickshaw Drivers’ Association, the Slum Dwellers’ Association, the Onion Sellers’ Association and so on– parading on... -
Deepavali Gift
Posted on September 13, 2008 | 6 CommentsThis attack is an advance Deepavali gift to the Indian people from the kind folks of the Indian Mujahideen. I can picture a top gun of the IM smiling victoriously at yet another successful operation of dispatching kafirs to hell. But to us kafirs what...