We need to read, and, understand our epics
Ever since the December 16 gang rape the and brutal murder of a young physiotherapist, scores of articles have been written analyzing what prompted those men, and thousands of other men every year, to...
View ArticleWhy an Indian Muslim criticizing India is sometimes blown out of proportion
In a recent article published in the Pakistani edition of The Tribune Akaar Patel laments: In India, the Muslim lives on sufferance. It is the Hindu who has freedom to attack India and its culture, its...
View ArticleThis problem is not just particular to Muslims
I was just reading a heart-felt piece in the Tehelka magazine, regarding how Muslims are made to feel like outsiders, and worse, like traitors, in their own country. She recounts two incidents: Once...
View ArticleShould education be free?
I came across this image on Facebook in which Noam Chomsky explains how the current, fee-based education system perpetuates a self-defeating consumerist society. He’s talking about the American...
View ArticleThe construction of Sardar Patel’s tallest statue is a good thing
I always complain that after independence Indians didn’t invest much in building monuments. I’m not talking about public sector industries and big dams, I’m talking about statues and buildings, and...
View ArticleThe fundamental difference between Wendy Doniger and Joe D’Cruz censorship
A couple of months ago Penguin India decided to pulp all the copies of Wendy Doniger’s book The Hindus. The contents of the book were deemed highly contentious by some people and a person named Dina...
View ArticleWhy mythology sells in India
This blog post seems to have been written in a hurry, but it raises a very interesting question: why are Indians so obsessed with its mythological stories and why these stories are being told and...
View ArticleThe leftist liberals in India are not actually liberal
In India people often get confused between who is liberal and who is not liberal. For example, people with leftist mentality of the like to call themselves liberal. Even people who support political...
View ArticleThe problem is not with the Hindu-Muslim culture but the secularism racket
Every multi-cultural amalgamation gives rise to at least some sort of beauty. I have often written on my blog that the most beautiful and perhaps the most famous Bollywood bhajan Man tarpat hari...
View ArticleA feminist take on the Rani Padmavati-Bhansali controversy
By now you must be already aware of the attack on film-maker Sanjay Leela Bhansali on the sets of Rani Padmavati, the movie that he is making on the legendary Rajput queen. The controversy broke when...
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