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Pseudosecularism Hall of Shame Archive
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Manu Joseph’s Open Ignorance
Posted on July 8, 2011 | 180 CommentsFew things pollute the atmosphere worse than a slighted journalist. What’s an even worse pollution than that is a slighted journalist whose writings reek with a stink of suspicious agenda. Meet Manu Joseph: a non-entity until his Open magazine exposed the Radia tapes sleaze last... -
Most Loathsome People of India: 2010
Posted on November 19, 2010 | 159 CommentsThis year’s Most Loathsome People of India Award Ceremony has arrived a month earlier. I had noted last year that people were vying really hard to outdo each other in loathsomeness and they haven’t failed to deliver. The list of awardees this year has been... -
Pune Before and After and Ever After
Posted on February 15, 2010 | 57 CommentsPune is just the name of another city where the blasts occurred. A welcome gift on the eve of Valentines Day to reassure our hearts pining for terror-love that we were so used to during UPA Ver 1.0. And the difference between Shivraj Patil and... -
Strength of Sanatana Dharma
Posted on January 14, 2010 | 79 CommentsToday 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... -
Shah Bano Ver 2.0
Posted on December 22, 2009 | 9 CommentsEvery application by a divorced woman under section 125… of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, pending before a magistrate on the commencement of this Act shall, notwithstanding anything contained in that code… be disposed of by such magistrate in accordance with the provisions of... -
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... -
Love Jihad Gets International Op-Ed Space
Posted on October 23, 2009 | 40 CommentsI know I’ve been neglecting this blog for extended intervals. I’ve been insanely busy. About two months ago, I had posted about the dangerous, long-term outcome of what I called Love Jihad. This phenomenon ever since, is steadily receiving the attention it deserves. And no... -
Whitewashing with a Straight Face
Posted on September 25, 2009 | 29 CommentsIntroduction 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... -
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... -
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...