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Pseudosecularism Hall of Shame Archive
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Sorry Can’t Make a Dead Man Alive
Posted on May 8, 2012 | 41 CommentsA timeless line from Dr. S.L Bhyrappa’s multi-layered and philosophical novel Saakshi (Witness) reads as follows: There is no greater arrogance than the arrogance wrought by a sense of self-righteousness. This quote accurately describes Yoginder Sikand’s textual barrage flowing over a course of 4373 words.... -
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... -
Didi, Don’t Give In!
Posted on April 12, 2012 | 12 CommentsIf you thought that the Left was near-finished after its 2009 Lok Sabha election drubbing followed by Mamata Banerjee’s sweeping victory, think again. It’s political fortunes have truly gone to hell but remember it was Satan who proudly proclaimed that he’d rather be Number One... -
Modi’s Image MakeOver is a Media-Created Myth
Posted on March 20, 2012 | 67 CommentsThe latest news item to cause a fresh bout of uncontrollable loose motions in the Indian English media is seeing Narendra Modi’s picture on the cover of the Time magazine. Here’s the picture in question: Being the long-time Congress-cultivated Pavlovian breed that they are, the... -
Brazen Bias
Posted on March 5, 2012 | 92 CommentsIt looks like Salil Tripathi, of late, has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. First it was this piece on Center Right India that examined his claims of being a libertarian, pro-free market, etc that led to some delightful exchanges on Twitter.... -
10 Years of Phenomenal Growth & 10 Years of Scavenging
Posted on February 29, 2012 | 64 CommentsAre death anniversaries celebrated? “Celebrated” is an unfortunate choice of word to use in the same breath as “death.” And no, that word choice is not mine. It is the media’s. Somebody’s death anniversary is not celebrated unless that person is someone like Stalin. Speaking... -
Most Loathsome People of India: 2011
Posted on December 6, 2011 | 313 CommentsUPDATE: In hindsight, I felt I was a tad harsh on B Raman. He has been replaced with a new and much more deserving candidate for said loathsomeness. Sigh. It’s that time of the year—the only time of every year where I make a list.... -
The Lion that Became a Lamb
Posted on November 20, 2011 | 446 CommentsThe Indian media overall is a whore with none of the ethics of a whore, a fact that’s pretty much self-evident now. Yet there are very few exceptions, and once in a long while somebody in this well-oiled and smoothly-functioning corporatized whoredom gets stung by... -
Return of the Academic Mullahs
Posted on October 26, 2011 | 926 CommentsLet’s not pretend that the soul-crushing shrillery of the academic mullahs of Delhi—led mainly by the mini-mullahs of the history department—has anything to do with academic freedom or “curbing our freedom of thought” or “censorship of education” and such other arrant nonsense. It’s anything but... -
If Modi is The Hindu Jinnah, R Jagannathan is Barkha
Posted on September 13, 2011 | 554 CommentsOh dear! Of all things, I hadn’t expected someone like R Jagannathan to mount an out-and-out personal attack against Narendra Modi. Going by his past record, I’ve always regarded him as a sensible and grounded writer but what to do? Humans are frail beings and... -
SC Verdict On Gulberg: Or How The Media & NGOs Subvert Democracy
Posted on September 12, 2011 | 47 CommentsIt couldn’t get any worse for the vile galaxy that comprises the media, intelligentsia, academia and the usual gang of Gujarat Cottage Industry freebooters. Let’s call it the media in short because it’s the media that gleefully opens its legs pages and studios and helps... -
Lies, Damned Lies and Meera Nanda
Posted on August 9, 2011 | 167 CommentsMy wait didn’t go in vain. I knew it the moment the world learned that the Norwegian lunatic-killer took inspiration from a vast range of literature critical of Islam, Marxists and their fellow travellers and that literature included writings that emanated from people sympathetic to...