Is India now officially “Hindu”?
…Wall Street Journal thinks so. And if the eminent WSJ says so (in a title, no less), it must be true, right? During last weekend, came across this half-baked opinion passing off as a...
Category: An Indian Identity
Of Turkey, Secular States and Religion
A few weeks ago, I had asked the question: Why is a “Hindu nation” automatically assumed to be a “fundamentalist, fascist state led by Hindutva fanatics”? My hypothesis was: A Hindu state can be the ultimate...
“India Breaking” – Read this and Weep
This is a sad story of the North East. It is a first-person account of how bad things are in the beautiful land of the “seven sisters” – in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and...
Comrades-in-arms: UPA & Pakistani “militants”
Most of you must have already read about the clumsy handling of the SethuSamudram affidavit by UPA last week. But this particular post on the issue caught my eye. In “The Ramayana, the Sethusamudram...
Of Patna and Azimabad…
A recent article by Shachi Rairikar commenting on Lalu Yadav’s demand for renaming Patna as Azimabad reminded me of one of my earlier posts about name changes and the question of identity: “Of Bangalore, Bengaluru and...
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