India’s misbegotten ‘modernity’ has won another fascist round in Gujarat. Unlike the mellow inclusivity of Nehruvian enlightenment that strenuously refused the bastardization…
I write this on the fifteenth anniversary of the demolition of the Babri mosque by fascist hordes of the Sangh Parivar, consequent…
I. The Indo-US nuclear energy deal may or may not happen. The contested debate that surrounds it has, nonetheless, brought to the…
I recall a young member of the family who would snatch an Agatha Christie as someone was reading it, sift quickly to…
The German philosopher, Kant, gave to the world two highly consequential orders of epistemology. In a throwback to Plato, he stipulated that…
Say: ‘Unbelievers, I do not serve what you worship,nor do you serve what I worship. I shall never servewhat you worship, nor…
The New Indian Middle Class will surely take us far; from hauteur, humbug, heartlessness to bloody civil war. (Badri Raina, Hippopotamus, Modest Proposal & Other…
As I ponder India 2007, I am struck how truly free a country she is. You may just do as you please—multiply…
Baske dushwaar hai har kaam ka aasan hona,Aadmi ko bhi mayassar nahi insaan hona. Mirza Ghalib How hard, how impossible To do the…
This story has been told before, but can never be told enough. On the 6th of December, 1992, a majority right-wing Hindutva…
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