Three seemingly unrelated events coincided on Republic Day and made my heart bleed. Now, as the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s martyrdom approaches, I feel we have moved so far from the vision of wiping every tear from every eye that we are not even embarrassed by the duplicity with which … Read More
Unbelievable at it seems, the Centre is said to be parleying with a host of Mumbai-walas to decide which supercilious secularist should be rescued from oblivion and gifted the Bharat Ratna. None of the names doing the rounds inspires confidence, though this may not matter much given the manner in … Read More
Marxism is the most aggressive of the monocultures seeking to decimate India’s unique civilization, because it has no genuine creed, no core values, of its own. Hence it lacks a sense of the sacred or even the ethical, and relies wholly on the vitality of violence to achieve its ends. … Read More
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh could hardly have realized the irony in his statement, “most of the controversies about history are because too many non-historians are talking about how history should be written.” Alas, instead of taking a leaf from his own book, Singh spoke expansively about the politicization … Read More
