Colonial Gaze

In its July 31 edition, The Economist included a review of the book, ‘In the Forest of No Joy’ by J.P. Daughton.  The book...

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...

The antidote to Western universalism  that privileges Western gaze and reduces all differences to sameness, lies in the dharmic practice of purva paksha, a...