Category: An Indian Identity

Testing the limits of minority appeasement

From Minority rule in Andhra Pradesh by Dr T.H.Chowdary*, these extraordinary examples that probably test the limits of minority appeasement: On the 18th of Oct a number of Christian organizations under the leadership of Archbishop Rev....

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...

No longer funny…

A Marathi Manoos’ house is ransacked in Jamshedpur for no other reason except that he belonged to the wrong “state” A 10-year old boy – almost certainly too young to understand what the fuss is...

“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...