Pseudosecularism Archive

  • 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...

    Strength of Sanatana Dharma

    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...

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  • Overdoing anything often results in several consequences. Among other things, the grand dignity of Brutus will suddenly resemble the character of the idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing. The latest exhibit: Mallika Sarabhai’s on-stage antics in the recently-concluded TED India event hosted at...

    Art Doesn’t Change Anything

    Overdoing anything often results in several consequences. Among other things, the grand dignity of Brutus will suddenly resemble the character of the idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing. The latest exhibit: Mallika Sarabhai’s on-stage antics in the recently-concluded TED India event hosted at...

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  • A 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...

    Gurcharan Das and the Liberal Hindu

    A 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...

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  • This 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...

    My Op-ed in Pioneer: Surpassing Goebbels

    This 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...

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  • This 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...

    Deepavali Gift

    This 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...

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