Category: Indian Media

Of Haj Pilgrims and Unruly Fliers

Or “The Great Joke that is Indian Media” – Part XII, courtesy BarbarIndians. *** Excerpted from India’s “insecure” minorities *** Haj pilgrims confine crew in AI plane for 15 hours Mumbai, Jan 3, PTI:...

Dear Vir, This is why Buddhism declined in India…

In the first part of this post, I cited evidence contrary to Sh Sanghvi’s assertion that “Hindu kings destroyed Buddhist monasteries…” Sh Sanghvi’s second point was that, as a consequence of such destruction (which...

Dear Vir, Leave these kids alone…

This post was triggered by Vir Sanghvi’s misleading article “Ayodhya for dummies” that he wrote in response to his “younger readers…(who are) mystified by the fuss and annoyed by the refusal of journos to...

Will Shabana Azmi please speak up?

Thanks to Sh Krishen Kak for alerting me to this extraordinary report of how Muslim women are being denied their freedoms…and the right to development by their own. Excerpts from Swaminathan S Aiyar’s  Anjumans...

Who are these “caste Hindus”?

…or The Great Joke that is Indian Media – Part XI Excerpt from  an OpEd in the Indian Express (emphasis mine)*: This (Dalits entering a temple) could have made news 60 years ago. And...