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Kancha Ilaiah created a sensation with his book Why I Am Not A Hindu. There he critiques the Hindu caste system and consequently rejects Hinduism. Prof Ilaiah does such a good job at castigating Hinduism that he, as it were, throws the baby along with...
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Due to the nature of my profession I have to travel a lot through the hinterlands of India. Sometimes I have to halt at remote villages where even today there are no signs of even the advent of electricity. There may be lights in the next village but...
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Parag Khanna is a good writer and like most writers she tends to be more of a disciple of fancy and imagination than of realities and solid historical research. She has set up a tenuous and theoretical parallel between the US and China. In the UK...
This is the gist of the 6th Pay Commission and how it impacts millions of government employees in the coming years. Though it is about the central government employees, yet this is the framework within which the states will pay their employees. And thus...
“I weep for you,” the Walrus said:
“I deeply sympathize.”
With sobs and tears he sorted out
Those of the largest size,
Holding his pocket-handkerchief
Before his streaming eyes.
“O Oysters,” said the...
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Coleridge’s famous water, water, everywhere but not a drop to drink is set to become a universal truism like most other things Coleridge had uttered. The world is fast running out of potable water and there is not much anyone can do. Of course,...
Ranajit Guha started the subaltern studies group long ago in Switzerland. He and his cohorts curiously left out itinerant monks, Christian nuns and sadhus in general from his study of virtually every aspect of Indian life. I have been always...
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History has a way of repeating itself. And also ways in which events in the world occur synchronously. In 1066 AD the French swamped England and imposed their culture and ethos on the unsuspecting Anglo-Saxons. British culture as we know it today is...
Can we have a marriage without love? Is it possible for two unknown people to live happily ever after without really knowing each other? What makes a marriage tick? Are Indians shifting from a society preferring arranged marriages to love marriages?...
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed…
These lines by W. B. Yeats best describe what is...
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