Category: A Hindu Identity

Building the Indian Mind – Brick by Brick

I received this email yesterday and could not stop before reading it right through to the end…It is a long read…quite a long read, in fact.  And it is seriously thought-provoking.  Below, excerpts from a speech delivered by...

“Reclaiming India” – excerpts

Great article by Tarun Vijay in today’s TOI: Reclaiming India. *** Excerpts below (emphasis mine) *** “None should say Omar is not allowed in Jammu. Let him come, listen and speak. Like any other...

Cry of the Valley – *must read*

Amidst the outpouring of years of pent-up anger in Jammu, I came across this vivid, very sad and intensely poignant first-hand account of living in the shadow of terror and the forced migration of Kashmiri Pandits...

Has Sh Nariman really read the Padma Purana?

…or has he relied on some half-baked research presented to him as a backgrounder? I was alerted today to this excellent analysis of “Rama Setu in Padma PurANa” by Sh Sarvesh Tiwari.  I sincerely hope...

The great joke that is Indian media – Part V

This is�how an otherwise straightforward news-story gets distorted in reporting: From rediff, “Do TV serials promote the Hindu way of life?“�� “…The Afghanistan government has banned Indian television serials because they feel it wrongly...