Great piece of writing ! 🤩👍👏 Sudarshan Madabushi ——————————————————— Khalid Umar: What’s wrong with Bharat as a Hindu Rashtra? This article originally appeared on Khalid Umar’s Facebook page. It is alleged that Narendra Modi/BJP want to make India a Hindu State. If that is so, I question, what is wrong about India being a HinduContinue reading “What’s wrong with Bharat as a Hindu Rashtra?”
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The Chimamanda Ngozi theory and Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman : “The Danger of a Single Story”
Scroll down below ⬇️ to read an interesting commentary written by Manisha Gupta on a speech made by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently at a graduation ceremony of a young women’s university … a speech in which she said that anti-patriarchy theory imported from the West should not be allowed to become a self-imposed impedimentContinue reading “The Chimamanda Ngozi theory and Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman : “The Danger of a Single Story””
India’s Democracy is prosthetic not orthopaedic … Why ?
Winston Churchill, WW-II British Prime Minister, made this famous pronouncement on government and democracy : ‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of GovernmentContinue reading “India’s Democracy is prosthetic not orthopaedic … Why ?”
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Just Out ! Updated 2024 Low-Priced Edition of “Tale of Two Cities – An Outline of the History of Sri Vaishnavas of Tamil Nadu that was never written”… !
The NEW 2024 Updated and Second Edition of my book is now available for sale on Amazon, Blue Rose and Flipcart online retail platforms . The first Edition out last year in 2023 needed to be revised to enable the inclusion of a few more very relevant research material that had not been accessible toContinue reading “Just Out ! Updated 2024 Low-Priced Edition of “Tale of Two Cities – An Outline of the History of Sri Vaishnavas of Tamil Nadu that was never written”… !”
Take a back-seat “vishwabandhu” and start worrying more about “prativeshi bandhu”
From The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/world/asia/sri-lanka-election-results.html?smid=em-share Leftist Leader Elected President as Sri Lanka Rejects the Old Order. Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s strong showing reveals voter weariness with leadership that has led to a national economic crisis and crushing hardship for many people. ************* India now has new regimes ruling its immediate neighbourhood with whom it sharesContinue reading “Take a back-seat “vishwabandhu” and start worrying more about “prativeshi bandhu””
M/s Hindenburg, A.L.Basham & Dalrymple and India’s colonial “wonder” hangover
For some bizarre and unfathomable reason, you know, reading the article above ⬆️ took me back on memory lane to my school days . In my history lessons for Class 8 we had a text book which had 2 chapters which we were made to study very thoroughly by our class-teacher (BTW, I studied inContinue reading “M/s Hindenburg, A.L.Basham & Dalrymple and India’s colonial “wonder” hangover”
Caste Census will usher in a great Indian “Perestroika” and “Glasnost”
Regarding Caste, the RSS is in an Awkward Quandary http://dhunt.in/Wqou5 Reading the above Op-Ed piece , I got the overwhelming feeling that Rahul Gandhi is probably right about the Caste Census. It’s an idea whose time has finally arrived in this country … and as Victor Hugo told us long ago, No power on Earth canContinue reading “Caste Census will usher in a great Indian “Perestroika” and “Glasnost””
The Prophet is new but his Testament is Old
Congress won 99 MP seats in the Parliament elections 2024. To Congressmen and the Left-Liberal-Secular anti-Dharmic forces in India, the “victory” represents Rahul Gandhi’s great political resurrection… For them it’s as momentous as the “Second Coming of Christ”! Well… to many others it is not resurrection, it’s merely resuscitation that’s most likely to lapse backContinue reading “The Prophet is new but his Testament is Old”
“The Tyranny of the Minority” in democracies of the World
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/16/the-tyranny-of-the-minority-a-marxist-appreciation-and-critique/ As I was reading through the thought-provoking essay 👆🏿, I found myself induced to go on mentally, or rather imaginatively, replacing the American play-actors and institutions described in it with those that I know are principal actors and counterparts in Indian democracy … ! In the many instances and situations described in the article,Continue reading ““The Tyranny of the Minority” in democracies of the World”