If you scroll down right to the bottom of this blogpost you will be able to read a very interesting absorbing piece from a slice of Indian History in the days leading to the completion of the drafting of the Indian Constitution! It is a historic narration of course but today it can now onlyContinue reading “If Patel, Nehru & Ambedkar were here today they’d probably be likened to Tom, Jerry and Butch”
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ISKCON, MEAT-EATING, SWAMI VIVEKANANDA and the VEDIC SCRIPTURE
“Do not give up anything. Things will give you up by themselves – Shri Bhagwan Ramakrishna Paramahamsa — SWAMI VIVEKANANDA – Philosopher of Freedom https://theprint.in/opinion/vivekanand-loved-spicy-mutton-curry-no-amount-of-eating-grass-brings-any-good/1669727/ After reading the above article on The Print, personally it seems to me as though the whole business of beef or meat-eating or vegetarianism and Hindu zealotry is needlessly whippingContinue reading “ISKCON, MEAT-EATING, SWAMI VIVEKANANDA and the VEDIC SCRIPTURE”
Why is sauce for Nehru’s goose not sauce for Modi’s gander?
Progress in such a complicated matter has to be necessarily slow and incremental. Maybe a beginning can be made with divorce laws, succession and inheritance laws. Even here legislation should not be rushed through Parliament without discussions. Otherwise, such legislation will meet the fate of the farm laws. —- a common citizen’s quote to meContinue reading “Why is sauce for Nehru’s goose not sauce for Modi’s gander?”
The Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions
It seems to me that both America and India find themselves on the horns of the same Hamletian Dilemma : “to quota or not to quota, is the question”. America’s Supreme Court has just given its verdict: Enough is enough of Affirmative Action . India’s Supreme Court continues however to tread most gingerly on thatContinue reading “The Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions”
The “Biden-Modi Agreement”: Over-ambitious equestrian acrobatics?
Prime Minister Modi is in the USA today ! And over the next few days INDIA and USA are expected to sign landmark long-term agreements which will commit the latter to unprecedented defence and trade ties favouring the former. India is said to be on the cusp of a so-called “heralding of a totally newContinue reading “The “Biden-Modi Agreement”: Over-ambitious equestrian acrobatics?”
“The Economist” (UK) on America’s new best friend, INDIA
Here’s my own take on this editorial published in the latest issue of of The Economist UK : (please scroll right down to read the reproduced piece) 1. The title should have been rephrased as “ America’s new best fair-weather friend”. 2. India is certainly more democratic and far less liberal than the West. Why?Continue reading ““The Economist” (UK) on America’s new best friend, INDIA”
Kancha Illiah’s challenge to Brahmins and the revivalism of Sanskrit
Why no Hindutva or contemporary Brahmin scholar ever writes in Sanskrit ? Asks the well- known Dalit academician, thinker, activist and writer, Kancha Illiah….: “ Brahmins do not write in Sanskrit. Why is it so? Is it because they hate the language but continue to praise it to deceive the gullible Shudra/Dalit/Adivasi masses?” Kancha Illiah’sContinue reading “Kancha Illiah’s challenge to Brahmins and the revivalism of Sanskrit”
I know no English , but I can quote Shakespeare …
I know my distant ancestors spoke Sanskrit … Today , I can’t converse in the same language as theirs . I can read and write Sanskrit but ever since in this country it became “dead language” , being able to speak Sanskrit fluently has become a rare curiosity if not anachronism amongst common people andContinue reading “I know no English , but I can quote Shakespeare …”
“Ekam sath vipraah: bahudah vadanti…”: the great debate on NCERT history text-book
The only way to de-politicise History is to aestheticise it . Why this obsession with “text-book history”? Why this rancour amongst historians ? Why politicise history ? Why the belief amongst historians, academicians, politicians and students of history that there can be only one version of India’s History that can be true, “authentic”, “faithful toContinue reading ““Ekam sath vipraah: bahudah vadanti…”: the great debate on NCERT history text-book”
Special Marriages Act, 1954: the thin-leading-edge of a battering ram?
The problem in India is that same-sex weddings are likely to be used — rather, even abused by the politics of hate and identity — to denigrate Hindu religion, customs and way of life … Which is why I agree with the argument being made by several quarters in the country today that they areContinue reading “Special Marriages Act, 1954: the thin-leading-edge of a battering ram?”