Fascist threat to Hinduism
So this is how the cookie crumbles. Who would have thought India would find itself at this dangerous crossroads so early in its democratic journey after all those historic sacrifices…
Celebrating Hinduism’s ‘hypocrites’
Listening to Shruti Sadolikar in Delhi the other day my mind leapt into a maze of politics. Here was a Maharashtrian Brahmin woman singer remembering Ustad Alladiya Khan, her guru’s…
Ahimsa today
Every year on October 2, the world observes the International Day of Non-Violence – a day declared by the United Nations to celebrate the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, born…
Modi in distress
Narendra Modi came to power when BJP swept the elections in 2014. Modi earlier had become famous for having orchestrated the genocidal killings of Muslims in his home province of…
The Indus runs through it
“We will ensure no drop of the Indus River’s water reaches Pakistan”. Hindutva’s water resources minister Chandrakant Paatil threatened this crime on X, nine years after PM Narendra Modi first…
The Zion-Hindutva axis
Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu are not only ideological contemporaries but increasingly are also walking parallel paths that could either transform their nations into global powerhouses or plunge them into…
India in disarray
India was never in its history a unified entity. Even its name India was coined after the Sindhu aka Indus River, who the Greeks referred to as “Indos”. India’s original…
How to tell Pakistan’s story
Pakistan reached a high-water mark in communication during the May 6–10 India-Pakistan war and in the aftermath. It ascended to a new reputational altitude not only because of its decisive…
Armed forces — an acclamation — I
Whilst at primary school, reading “The Charge of The Light Brigade” written by Lord Alfred Tennyson, I would invariably imagine with pride our brave and courageous soldiers, when reciting these lines from…
Armed forces — an acclamation—II
Narendra Modi is seriously suffering from the effects of misadventure and is on fire. He claimed Pakistan begged for ceasefire; he is in fact refuting and repudiating President Donald Trump…
