The Gateway to Bharat
Modern India builds a temple to its civilisational identity AYODHYA IS, AND WILL perhaps always be, the abode of the most ardent bhakts. The ones who never lost faith. Hanuman to Lord Ram, Nandi to Lord Shiva. On the dawn of January 22, to mark the Prana Pratishtha (ritualistic ceremony to install the statue of […]
Read MoreThe Poster Boy of Exclusivism
Geert Wilders’ victory is a message to Europe from Dutch voters POPULIST ANTI-ISLAMISM leader Geert Wilders has won a surprise victory in the Dutch general election with his Freedom Party (PVV) picking up 37 seats. Though short of a majority, Wilders is now busy negotiating a power-sharing pact with other similarly inclined parties that could […]
Read MoreLook 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 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 […]
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