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British Colonialism
Colonised Indian schools offer “study tour” to UK to see school where SRK’s son studied!
Vikram -
The colonised Indian education system has long been churning out deracinated and mediocre citizens. One look at the Lutyens' elites controlling our public discourse...
Setting the record straight on Veer Savarkar – Book Preview
"Veer Savarkar: The man who could have prevented Partition" by Uday Mahurkar and Chirayu Pandit is a candid, self-professed effort to set the record...
जब छोटे बच्चों को डाल देते थे अंग्रेज मगरमच्छों के सामने! शिकार का था बहाना, पर क्या “रंग था निशाना”!
हम लोगों ने प्राय: देखा है कि शेर आदि को पकड़ने के लिए बकरी या कोई और छोटा जानवर बांध दिया जाता था पिंजरे...
Mahatma and Sri Krishna: Winning wars and losing the peace
Mahatma Gandhi’s unqualified capitulationism has apparently triumphed in post-independence Bharat over Bhagwan Krishna’s unyielding terse realism in the Bhagavad Gita. Not only that Bharat...
Demystifying the Assam-Mizoram border issue
Anuradha -
On July 26, five policemen and a civilian from Assam were killed in border clashes between Assam and Mizoram. The clashes took place in...
How the British created the Indian ‘caste system’
Colonial Indologists, in tandem with colonial administrators, created a false entity known as the 'caste system' in India that subverted the traditional jati-varna paradigm, and has unfortunately become a deeply entrenched reality in the sociocultural fabric of contemporary Bharat...
Bengal elections & the post–poll violence – The paradoxical dichotomies
On the 2nd of May as I was watching the Bengal election results unfold on the television screen, an equally interesting trend was observable...
Sati: Reversing and reframing the colonial gaze
The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
--George Orwell (1903-1950)
Knowledge and power...
हिन्दुओं को गुलाम बनाने वाले कानूनों की श्रृखंला – भाग 1: आर्म्स एक्ट
पालघर के साधुओं की जब हत्या हुई , तो हम सभी का ध्यान मात्र हत्या पर गया, एवं पुलिस व्यवस्था पर गया। परन्तु एक...
पीड़ा अभी तक ताजी है: जलियाँवाला बाग हत्याकांड
13 अप्रेल का दिन, आज भी हमारे लिए, टीस से भरा हुआ दिन होता है, उस दिन बार बार वह कहानी सामने आती है,...