I have been following Kangana Ranaut with a mixture of fascination and admiration ever since she showed the extraordinary courage of taking on the bigwigs in Bollywood by attacking the source of their power—nepotism. Beginning from Koffee With Karan where she famously called Karan Johar the ‘flag bearer of nepotism’, she has been relentless in her attack. She must have[Read More…]
I was born a bania, a savarna or upper-caste, and that is why I was born a bad person. Let me explain. I am part of that minority for whom the benefits of the caste system far outweigh the costs (if there are any costs at all except for making me lazy, stupid, selfish, and arrogant by making everything in[Read More…]
America has two lessons for India right now, one for the government and one for the people – 1) The government should not ally with a falling power (America) against a rising power (China), notwithstanding India’s racist outlook towards the Chinese and its disgustingly servile love for the white of colour. 2) Protests can and must happen despite coronavirus. In[Read More…]
It has so come to pass that we only impart religion to our little bundles of joy while abandoning them almost exclusively to the not-so-innocent hands of schools for their ‘secular’ education. While there has always been a debate about how much state propaganda is really thrust down the throat of malleable minds at an early age to destroy their[Read More…]
CO-Written by Akshat Jain & Divij Oberoi In the great ancient tradition of our country (bharat ki mahan aur pracheen sanskriti), we have yet again decided to start a witch-hunt against the members of a minority community. While this kind of witch hunting had become confined to villages due to the evil machinations of secular-rationalists, it is now being restarted[Read More…]
There is no such thing as Islamophobia. There is only anti-Islamism. A Hindu, Christian, or secular liberal does not have a mental illness that makes them afraid of Muslims, they are against Islam as a political ideology and value system. The same is true of homophobia which is really just a cover for anti-homosexualism, which is the political assertion of[Read More…]
You Can Ask Me….But 
Before teaching in English medium, first improve the shoddy text books 
A Moral Debate 
The End of Reality? 
RSS As A Terrorist Outfit: Evidences From Its Archives 
RTI: High Court admonishes irresponsible PIOs 
Assange’s Tenth Day at the Old Bailey: Bolting Horses, Death Penalties and Plots of Eviction 
On the GST issue, the Centre holds the baton 
Resisting Linguistic Hegemony: The Legacy of Punjabi Language 
Cutting Back 
Changing Our Species Name 
Sri Lanka’s Boiling Tamils And Failing Tamil Political Leaders 
Can the Social Sciences choose to be Reflexive in times of Crisis? 
In Praise of the Lioness of Law: Ruth Bidder Ginsburg and her Jurisprudence 
A Letter To God From Kashmir 
Black Wave – Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry 
The Caged Bird and the Free Bird 
TV journalism in India: Crying for TRP or Truth 
The Truth Hurts 
Who Is President Trump? 
Lynching of democracy in India 
Apartheid Reaffirmed 
Something’s Rotten About The Republic Of Reaction 
A gypsy’s account of the times gone by 
Increasing Incidence of Violence Against Women Forest Dwellers in Uttarakhand 
Why is Bengal still Caste-less? 
Body, Nation and Resistance in the times of COVID-19 
Protests re-erupts in Portland 
Farmers Bills: Are They, Boon or Bane? 
Fire and Fury Like the World Has Never Seen, 2020 Version 
Yet Another Problem With the Decalogue! 
Controversial Israeli soccer club may be litmus test for UAE soft power ploy 
Economy May Not Recover Back to Where It was in January 2020: Prof. Arun Kumar 
Abuse of preventive detention against criticism 
“Insult-to-religion-law” of India: An overview from enactment to interpretation 
How do Democrats and Republicans Differ on Palestine and Israel? 
Dangers for Democracy without Opposition 
Burkina Faso Fights the War on Terror 
US-China Cross Swords Over Taiwan 
Globalization: a multifaceted exchange platform of healthcare 
This article is based on the 25th Chandrashekar Memorial Lecture delivered on 20 September 2020. The original lecture was delivered in Hindi and the event was organized by Punashcha, the Indian People’s Theater Association (IPTA) and Koshish. Friends, comrades gathered here; I am very honoured to be invited to deliver the Chandrashekhar Memorial Lecture this year but I cannot say[Read More…]
