A sharp retort to The Guardian’s critique of PM Modi’s global honors, exposing the persistent colonial double standards of Western media.
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The colonial mindset of the Editors of UK’s ‘The Economist’ needs fresh lessons in Indian History
As usual, the UK Economist peddles once again in its columns a perversely colonialist perspective on Indian History. Will some learned Indian historian please impart to these washed up editors of this fossilised imperialistic relic of British journalism, fresh lessons in understanding the nuances of Indian History and Culture? The Economist suggests that there areContinue reading “The colonial mindset of the Editors of UK’s ‘The Economist’ needs fresh lessons in Indian History”
The Arc of a Brave New 22nd Century World… the Bhagavad Gītā, and the Bible – Part 3 (CONCLUDED)
Confronted with such a pattern, it is unsurprising that two great scriptures of the world — one recent in history, and the other very ancient — the Bible and the Bhagavad Gītā speak not in the language of dispassionate geopolitics, but in the idiom of divine justice and cosmic rectification. It is cruel irony, perhaps,Continue reading “The Arc of a Brave New 22nd Century World… the Bhagavad Gītā, and the Bible – Part 3 (CONCLUDED)”
The Moving Arc and the “One‑Tenthers” – Part 2 of 3
If the arc can be read as a product of resources and strategic geography, it can also be read as a mirror of power asymmetry. Throughout most of human history, the making of the arc’s fate has been reserved for what I call the “One‑Tenthers”—the small minority of great‑power states, imperial elites, and ruling‑class networksContinue reading “The Moving Arc and the “One‑Tenthers” – Part 2 of 3”
The Arc of Human Sorrow – Part 1 of 3
I. The Arc of Human Sorrow in the World If one were to trace, on a single map, the heaviest concentration of war, pillage, and displacement across human history, the line would run from Libya through Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Persia—an arc that has, for millennia, been less a geographical accident than a structuralContinue reading “The Arc of Human Sorrow – Part 1 of 3”
The fake Voter-ID: A British legacy of Balkanising India
Reading the below summary (please scroll down below to read ) makes me feel very sympathetic to Sri. Amit Shah or for that matter anyone who occupies the Home Minister of India seat. I now understand with much greater clarity than ever before how British Colonialism must bear full responsibility for India’s stupendous and enervatingContinue reading “The fake Voter-ID: A British legacy of Balkanising India”
The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy lives more in Durban than in Delhi? (Part-3)
The diplomatic tight-rope walking that Rt. Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri had to execute in his remit as the Agent-General of the Imperial Government of India (1927-29) in South Africa was accomplished not only with great dexterity but also aplomb. For the services he rendered to both the British Government as well as to the Indian communityContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy lives more in Durban than in Delhi? (Part-3)”
The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy lives more in Durban than in Delhi? (Part-2)
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the mass leaders of the Indian National Congress who were at the forefront of the Freedom Struggle against British Colonial Rule all fell into roughly three broad but clear ideological groupings. They were all patriots devoted to the cause of Independence but they differed sometimes quite widely in their respectiveContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy lives more in Durban than in Delhi? (Part-2)”
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part-44
Hereditary and/or traditional rights of control over temple wealth and administration The story of how in 50 year after Independence the State in Tamil Nadu “established a system of legal plunder…. known as the “drain of wealth”… and “mercilessly imposed” it upon temples and temple-centric Brahmin communities is indeed a very long one. The storyContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part-44″
Who is really governing the Governor?
https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/governor-itis-the-bjps-new-weapon-against-opposition-governments-3465469 Brinda Karat makes out a veiled but forceful case for the abolition of the office of State Governor citing imperfections and infirmities in the way they are appointed , the way they are subjected to pressures and dictats by their political masters in the Central Government and the way they meddle in the runningContinue reading “Who is really governing the Governor?”