Look Who’s Seeking the Final Solution Now
Hamas has committed a crime against humanity. Peace cannot be Israel’s responsibility alone It’s a scene straight out of the Zombie apocalypse”. With these words Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus, the solemn-faced Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson, began his broadcast. Over the next 15 minutes he walked his horrified audience through the merciless torture inflicted by […]
Read MoreThe Limits of Moral Imperialism
The Anglo-elite’s attitude towards an emerging superpower like India reeks of hypocrisy t hasn’t taken very long for the self-appointed fount of Anglo-moralism, The Economist, to hold forth on l’affaire Nijjar. In an attempt to put in context the mysterious assassination of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the magazine has chided India for not heeding the mores of the […]
Read MoreA Return to Vivekananda – India must seize its G20 moment to launch Hindu internationalism
IN 1893, A 30-YEAR-OLD prodigiously talented monk took India to the world. Swami Vivekananda, already an authority on Western logic, a Vedic philosopher and historian, astounded his audience at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago with a dazzling treatise on the refreshingly tolerant and non-prescriptive Hindu dharma. Awestruck, the delegates even gave Swami Vivekananda […]
Read MoreTimes Now no.1, says Rahul Shivshankar
Q] Can you give us a sense of where the channel stands today with regards to BARC ratings?If I were to compare week 32 to 39 pre-BARC clean up in 2020, with that post it i.e. the last seven weeks of 2022, there is a dramatic difference in the English language news landscape. Then Times […]
Read MoreWhy Blame Botticelli? The eco-ninjas have crossed the line
“WHEN THERE’S NO food, what use is art? When there’s no water, what use is art?” shouted a pair of anti-fossil fuel eco-ninjas who had glued themselves to the frame of The Hay Wain a few weeks ago at the London National Gallery. The painting is an invaluable masterpiece romanticising the pastoral idyllic by the great landscape […]
Read MoreHijab hysteria proves the word ‘Secularism’ in the Constitution’s Preamble has lost its relevance
In January 2019 two women activists crossed the threshold of the inner sanctum of the Sabarimala temple into a “forbidden world.” The temple’s pontiffs reluctantly allowed the women entry after the Supreme Court struck down a religious injunction that forbade women of menstruating age to pay respects to the residing deity. The temple entry of […]
Read MoreHijab row: Liberals are picking the wrong battle to settle scores with the BJP
A few years ago liberals were falling over themselves to defend modernity in the face of misogyny. They cheered as women mounted an audacious attempt to literally scale one of the last standing citadels of patriarchy: the platform from where the Shani deity beneficently showers his blessings over the faithful offering prayers at the Shani Shignapur temple. The […]
Read MoreVirtue signallers are falling over themselves to brand India “illiberal” under Modi but gloss over decades of left illiberalism
A Dharam Sansad organized by Sadhus on the fringe and some notorious professional headline-hunters calling for “armed action” against the minority community is vexing the usual brood of virtue signallers. In supplications to the Supreme Court, in letters to the President, in editorial columns and on social media, the ignominious Dharam Sansad is being held […]
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