Category: Hindu Social System

On Jeans, Indian Men and “Indecent Behaviour”

I stumbled across this news-story  Jeans for boys, seminary tells women students a few days back and it immediately struck a chord. The report mentioned (emphasis mine): A mufti of the seminary (Darul Uloom),...

A fresh look at Reservations and Quotas

This has been one of my longest posts in the making…taking almost two months since I first started putting down my thoughts on this issue. To a large extent this was because I wanted...

Redefining Hinduism – Need of the Hour

Tavleen Singh wrote a great piece in Indian Express a few days back titled, “A dark, distorted Hinduism“. In that article, Tavleen talked about how “in these jehadi times, when Islamists run around the globe killing...

Is this too much to ask?

For the last several weeks, I have been deeply distressed by several comments, reports and other articles re. the question of caste and how it is destroying the very fabric of our society and...

The great joke that is Indian media – part 2 *must read*

Thanks to Shadow Warrior on whose blog I first came across this extraordinary piece of reporting: “Who says Indian Media isn’t biased?“*about the mass conversion of Dalits into Buddhism last Sunday in Mumbai. After...