On “The Idea of India: Reconstructing a National Identity”
As most of you know, the idea of “Identity” (and specifically an Indian identity)Â is something close to my heart and a topic on which I have been thinking and reading about for a very...
Category: Identity
“People are the Nation†– Excerpts
In the context of recent happenings in the Kashmir valley and the debate in blogosphere on nationalism, identity and history, please read these extracts from “People are the Nation“ by Sh M G Vaidya...
Notes from North-East: Conversion at gun point?
From Buddhists allege NSCN-IM threat (emphasis added): …“The people in Wangnong and nearby villages (in Arunachal Pradesh) have been passing sleepless nights. They are all Buddhists. An armed militant group belonging to the NSCN(IM)...
Are all religions equal?
Some thought-provoking excerpts from Separate truths by Stephen Prothero…OR why is it misleading — and dangerous — to think that religions are different paths to the same wisdom. Pl read on (Note: emphasis is...
Reading Pavan Varma: “we are not a parvenu civilisation”
Extracts from a thought-provoking interview of Pavan Varma by Kanchan Gupta: (emphasis added): …“Those who have never been colonised can never really know what it does to the psyche of a people. Those who...
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