Society & Culture

M.K. Gandhi   Gandhi, for mostly personal reasons of his own, accepted the British definition of Hindu ‘spirituality’ with its strong anti-physicality element. Initially, he defended...

Voltaire once famously quipped: "If God did not exist He must be invented.” Polytheism entered Christianity in disguise as hagiolatry: saint-worship.

Polytheisms today are religions under siege. We live in a very different world from our polytheistic ancestors. We are an occupied people. Our world is doggedly, demonstrably, and sometimes violently monotheistic.

The row in 'prestigious' JNU has subsided. What makes it prestigious? In forty-six years of its life, it did not produce a single Nobel...

In November, 2009, a self proclaimed critic of  Hindu Dharma, Prof.  Kancha Ilaiah  of  Osmania University, brought the subject of discrimination against ‘Dalits’ in...

A recent trip to West U.P., my ancestral homeland, brought the kind of clarity which only direct experience can bring. Having heard reports about...

Amidst the ongoing JNU controversy, the news of a few rebellious ABVP activists burning Manusmriti as a mark of protest, for allegedly being ‘anti-woman’,...

Until recently, I was ambivalent on the issue regarding whether or not women between the age of 10 and 50 should be permitted to...

Immunity, stamina, strength, and energy are far more important than the shape of a person’s body because they are key to maintaining good health....

The Content of the Hegemony: Defining the British Identity Even though Britain of 1757-1835 was not much different from Bharat of the same period, and...