‘Historian Romila Thapar’s Dogmas’
Column by Dr. Vijaya Rajiva Romila Thapar has entered her 80s and the favourite historian of Indian Marxist circles and as well the feted and decorated icon of certain sections of the international scholarly jet More...
Beyond 2012: The old order changeth
The 1912 elections are a preview of the coming crumbling feudal political order put together by Jawaharlal Nehru and his political heirs. The country is on the verge of a major political overhaul. Dynastic rule More...
Is it a ‘crime’ to be a Sanyasi at 13?
Column by Advocate Padma Prasad Hegde In all Indic religious traditions the idea of renunciation or Sanyasa is considered to be a true mark of spiritual life. It is understood to be a simple and straightforward More...
Darlymple joins Karnad’s ‘Hate Naipaul Campaign’
Girish Karnad cannot hold a candle to V.S. Naipaul as a writer. His attacking Naipaul at a major literary event is an attempt to step out of obscurity and gain some limelight that his talent does not merit. Dalrymple More...
Mankind’s Greatest Invention: Numbers to Computers
An invention, unlike a discovery must be entirely a human creation. Fire was a discovery while mathematics was an invention. The greatest invention was the ‘modern’ number system based on the zero and the More...
PM moves to cool panic over Assam violence, thousands flee cities
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured migrants from the northeast that they were safe as thousands fled Mumbai, Bangalore and other cities on Friday, fearing a backlash from violence against Muslims in Assam. People More...
Modi and the Mahatma, who was more guilty?
Narendra Modi after Godhra and Mahatma Gandhi after the Khilafat were forced to deal with the violent aftermath. But there are striking differences between the way the two dealt with them. Also, Modi had nothing More...
Unity of India is of untold antiquity
Column by Virendra Parekh - India’s cultural unity goes back to Vedic times. Even when politically divided, the goal was always to unite it under a single chatra. There is no basis to the claim that India was More...
Monsoon delayed or bad calendar hindering accurate prediction?
Column by Sandhya Jain At the time of Independence, the Indian Government blindly borrowed the unscientific Gregorian calendar for scientific activities like weather prediction, abandoning the time tested sidereal More...
Fallacy of Interfaith Dialogues
There is a fundamental flaw in the very concept of ‘inter-faith’. The problem lies in the world ‘faith’ for defining religious and spiritual traditions. Western monotheistic religions, particularly Christianity More...
