Hindutva’s science envy
By Meera Nanda
Claiming an organic unity between the Vedic world view and modern science has been the agenda of Hindu nationalists from the very...
Gau Rakshaks — A Note
NDTV released a video on July 30, 2016 which posed the question, “Gau-Rakshaks—Protectors or Extortionists?”
https://www.ndtv.com/video/news/truth-vs-hype/truth-vs-hype-gau-rakshaks-protectors-or-extortionists-425653
The video shows how “gau rakshaks”, always associated with one...
Darkness at Dawn The murders of Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare and MM Kalburgi
By Anosh Malekar
NARENDRA DABHOLKAR was in a chatty mood on the evening of 18 August 2013. The 67-year-old rationalist had delivered a lecture against...
Lesson from Gujarat: Cow protection vigilante groups need to be banned
By Ajaz Ashraf
The atrocities committed on four Dalits in Una, Gujarat, for skinning a dead cow has several layers of overlapping meanings. But perhaps...
The Colonial Roots Of Hindutva ‘Nationalism’
By Romila Thapar
For Indians of my age who grew up on the cusp of Independence, nationalism was in the air we breathed. Nationalism was...
The disturbing agenda to rewrite India’s history
By Faisal Kutty
Did you know that Vatican City, the Kaaba, Westminster Abbey and the Taj Mahal were once temples to the Hindu god Shiva?
These are...
They call us anti-national: Anand Patwardhan
By Anand Patwardhan
Their founding fathers came from the most conservative Brahmin castes, with enormous faith in the culture that empowered them.
They opposed the mainstream secular...
Rajiv Malhotra, Subramanian Swamy and Meghnad Desai represent anti-Indian ideology: Kancha Ilaiah
By Ajaz Ashraf
The irrepressible social scientist, Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd (the title he assumed recently), speaks on the ideological hypocrisy of Non-Resident Indians and some of...
Poisoning Young Minds and Paving the Paths to Right Wing Expansion
By Vijay Prashad
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, the famous professor from Columbia University, calls me from rural West Bengal. She is in Birbhum, where Professor Spivak...
Savarkar justified the idea of rape as a political tool
The controversial figure castigated Maratha ruler Shivaji for sending back the daughter-in-law of the Muslim governor of Kalyan, whom he defeated.
Viewpoint: Why Hindu groups are against California textbook change
What it means to be Hindu and Indian have long been the subject of argument in India.
These disagreements have been amplified since the crowning...
