56 filings across politics, society, religion, culture, history and law.
When writing history, it is essential that the author undertakes deep research into the subject, or at the very least possesses a sound familiarity with the historical and cultural landscape. When someone relies heavily on secondary sources, especially questionable ones, the result is often a half-baked work in which the underlying agenda becomes all too […]
SS guards rarely physically hit a person in the Nazi concentration camps. They shot them, but that was in extreme cases. For day to day handling of prisoners, SS guards deployed men from among the Jews themselves. They were called Capos (plural of capo which means leader in Italian). All survivors say that Capos were […]
Into forced conversions, radicalisation and the global jihad module
Sorry to the fans of Chiraiya, but what you have been told is a lie. To those who don’t know, at the end of this series, a statistic is flashed, which reads: ‘82% married women face sexual violence from their husbands’. This is nothing but a lie. And it has been told in a manner […]
White rice isn’t healthy. I hope you know it. But, what you don’t know is that the scientists at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram, have come up with this new designer rice that will help tackle the two most important epidemics of our nation: malnutrition and diabetes. Positioned by the leadership […]
My oldest memory of happiness begins with her walking towards me. She was blushing and almost bursting with joy. In the red dress she seemed to flow, as if she was gently drifting toward me. That moment felt as if time was passing slowly. Her presence, the feeling of her being there. The way she […]
In the small but voluble precincts of the Indian Internet, specifically, the corner of X formerly known as Twitter, where men with saffron-tinted display pictures and bios reading ‘Civilizational Hindu | Anti-Woke | Follow Back’ hold court, a curious consensus has emerged. Narendra Modi, the man under whose government the Ram Mandir got built, the […]
This is it. I can’t take it anymore. Celebrating Holi by standing on the walls of a temple at Assi Ghat, Varanasi, while smoking and dancing on obscene songs, calling girl dancers who were not just dancing — but making vulgar and sexual actions at a festival so rooted in bhakti was just disgusting. Let […]
While I was scrolling through Instagram, I came across a reel in which a Muslim content creator was discussing the failure of liberal intellectuals, pointing out how people were rejoicing in the ongoing attack against Iran by the US and Israel rather than condemning it. What caught me was not the argument itself, but what […]
In 2025, the Election Commission of India (ECI) conducted the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar. It made news. Those on the Left said it was the ‘biggest disenfranchisement exercise’. Now, with some members of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) approaching the Supreme Court of India against the SIR in West Bengal, The Dossier […]
Faces hidden, yet the Himachali aesthetic alone steals the show. In November 2025, these words, paired with mesmerising photographs, flooded timelines across Instagram, X and YouTube shorts. Captured were the enigmatic figures draped in vibrant Kinnauri Pattu shawls, layered with heavy silver jewellery and crowned with flowers, while their faces remained hidden behind the deep […]
In the winter of 1911, as the dust of the Delhi Durbar settled over the plains of Shahjahanabad, King George V laid the foundation stone for a capital that was intended to be an eternal testament to British supremacy. It is said that Edward Lutyens, surveying the scrubland of Raisina Hill, envisioned a city that […]
For decades, Western intellectuals, journalists, and policymakers have searched obsessively for external explanations for Islamist terrorism. Poverty. Colonial trauma. Social exclusion. Racism. Humiliation. Western foreign policy. Israel. America. France. Capitalism. The list is endlessly recycled because it is reassuring. If jihad is the product of misery, prosperity will cure it. If it is born of […]
Mohammed Zeeshan and Mohammed Gulfam, the two Islamists who stabbed Ex-Muslim Saleem Wastik on February 27, have been killed in two separate encounters with the Uttar Pradesh police. The Indian Right is celebrating their killing. But should it? No. Because it is only the two believers who have died, the religion that made them believers, […]
Last month, I was attending the second day of the Delhi University Literature Festival with my junior when a frantic call shattered the afternoon. Over the call, he was told that a friend of his, whom he had known since his undergrad days, Ruchi Tiwari, a journalist by profession, was being lynched in broad daylight […]
You say you are an atheist or agnostic and still alive — you are a Hindu. Because if you had been a Muslim and been or even tried to be any of the two mentioned before — you would have been in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) by now, just like Ex-Muslim Saleem Wastik. Wastik […]
Not everyone goes to the mandir to worship god? This was the question that arose in my mind when my landlord’s daughter asked me to accompany her to a Gurudwara. ‘It’s a place where we pray, Suraj. It’s a place of remembering Sri Guru Nanak Sahib’, she said. ‘You’ll get langar there. Ghee wala suji […]
If you are a fan of Arundhati Roy, you must be aware of a story that she told from the 2002 Gujarat Riots, in which a woman named Sayeeda was caught by a mob and her stomach was ‘ripped open and stuffed with burning rags’. Not just this, but also that after she died, ‘someone […]
Every great culture and civilization has a clear concept of its self identity. This definition is not rigid and can change with times, but it is perilous for any civilization to not know ‘who they are’, at any given time in history. The logic behind this is similar to the logic behind borders. They are […]
I use X occasionally. On 7 February, when I opened my X account, I saw a post from an account named Faarees. In his tweet, Faarees wrote: ‘Only dumb and stupid folks still believe that Muslims did the 9/11’. Faarees had written this in response to a person’s tweet that had an image of the […]
Every constitutional democracy is defined by its ability to preserve principled distinctions inter dissentum et subversionem, between dissent and disruption; inter protestationem et provocationem, between lawful protest and incitement; and ultimately between civil resistance and organised attempts to undermine constitutional order. India confronted this test in February 2020, when the National Capital Territory of Delhi […]
I’m sure you’ve heard of the grand Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj. I’m fairly certain you’ve heard of the one in Haridwar. I might even bet you’ve caught wind of the gatherings in Ujjain or Nasik. But I am absolutely sure you haven’t heard of the Kumbh in Bengal – or more specifically, the annual […]
Think of your childhood and tell me what your mother would have done if you had brought your friend’s remote control car to your home without asking him. Stopped you, right? That’s the rule. This is exactly what has happened with the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. Gandhi wanted to break a rule of the Parliament […]
Do you, like me, believe that our Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are busy doing critical work? You aren’t wrong. It’s just that this “critical work” is different. The third edition of the Critical Philosophy of Caste and Race conference, held between January 16 and 18, is the latest critical stuff from IIT Delhi (IITD). One suspects […]
Taking a bath was a simple activity, back in the 1980s. While many of our homes had bathrooms, men seldom had a bath inside. The children, almost as a rule, bathed in the open, under the hand pump, which were common in every other home. And children didn’t mean just infants or toddlers. We were […]
Purnima Rani Shil, a 12-year-old Hindu girl, was raped on 8 October 2001. Her fault? That as the polling agent of the Awami League in Sirajganj, Bangladesh, she had protested against the electoral malpractices by the workers of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) during the 2001 general election. The result of doing right was gruesome. […]
Voter Apathy I have generally avoided writing on UGC guidelines except a couple of posts intended to wake up the GC warriors to what they are doing. UGC guidelines are evil. Group guilts and group innocence, and presumption of guilt till the accused proves himself innocent, and he has to stay in jail till he […]
If I ask you to think about Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi is the father of our nation would definitely top the charts of your brain. A website (mkgandhi.org) maintained by two Gandhian institutions: Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal and Gandhi Research Foundation, also repeats this statement. However, it states a lie as well. It says, ‘… Constitution of […]
Once again going back to the days of my childhood as an anchor in time, I remember a world full of dukkha but empty of depression. This is what makes me wonder, whether depression is the way of the Shakti telling us that pain can never be completely eliminated from life, and when you remove […]
In 2025, the Election Commission of India (ECI) conducted the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar. It made news. Those on the Left said it was the ‘biggest disenfranchisement exercise’. Now, with some members of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) approaching the Supreme Court of India against the SIR in West Bengal, The Dossier […]
It was precisely on this day in 1990 when the Hindus of Kashmir were made to flee their home state—Kashmir. When they were killed, raped and tortured, no one even came to know about their persecution, leave pain. Today, after 35 years, at least this change has come, where their ‘genocide’ is being discussed on […]
On Dussehra every year, we celebrate the triumph of Dharma (righteousness) over Adharma (unrighteousness). The Valmiki Rāmāyaṇa concludes with the death of Dashamukh Ravana and Shri Rāmāchandra rescuing Devi Sita, returning victorious to Ayodhya. This symbolises the defeat of external, perceivable evil. But a deeper lesson exists in the lesser-known Adbhuta Rāmāyaṇa. After Dashamukh’s fall, […]
Thousands ask, can Islam be reformed? What they fail to realise is that Islam has already undergone a reformation. It began nearly a century ago, and the Islamic terrorist organisations the world fears are the reformers. Let me explain. In religious history, ‘reformation’ means stripping away centuries of cultural overlay to return to the core […]
It’s been more than three decades, and over 100 school and college-going Hindu girls are still waiting for justice. In 1992, through a local newspaper, it emerged that these girls were raped and blackmailed by affluent young men, mostly Muslims, from influential families of Ajmer, Rajasthan. Many of these men included those associated with the […]
Contrary to the stories created by the Leftists and Abrahamics, conversions out of Hindu Dharma have not been from the two allegedly most oppressed Hindu castes. In fact, conversions from these two castes have been the least. Conversions out of Hindu Dharma have been mostly from the artisanal castes and land-owning castes. Land-owning castes, because […]
On 20 December 2019, Friday, a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) saw thousands of ‘peaceful’ demonstrators gathering outside the Jama Masjid, after that day’s prayers. Following this, a constable’s car was set on fire, and eventually the demonstrators started pelting stones at the police. Many life-threatening protests against the former Spokesperson of the […]
Messi’s three-day GOAT India Tour concluded on 15 December. During this, La Pulga (Spanish for The Flea) visited four cities: Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai and New Delhi. While the other three cities didn’t make much news on social media. It was Kolkata that made headlines. The reason was the state government’s mismanagement and administrative immaturity in […]
On the very day Rahul Gandhi stood at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan on 14 December, raising the allegation of so-called “vote theft” during the Vote Chor, Gaddi Chhod rally, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced the appointment of 45-year-old Nitin Nabin from Bihar as its National Working President. This was no coincidence. It was a carefully […]
Most engineering students who visit Shivanasamudra Hydroelectric Station are never told its significance and how India taught the world the long-distance transmission of electricity. It is this plant that made steam power obsolete. This is to fix that gap in the knowledge. I wish I had been made aware of this in 1991 when I […]
They say people realise the value of an individual only once he or she is gone. Alas, this cannot be said for India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel died on 15 December 1950. Within an hour of his passing, Nehru instructed his ministers and secretaries not to attend Patel’s funeral; he withdrew […]
Everything about the recent impeachment notice submitted by INDIA bloc MPs against Justice GR Swaminathan, a judge of the Madras High Court, is shameful. Signed by over 100 MPs, the notice was triggered by his direction to the management of a temple to light a festival lamp on a stone pillar located close to a […]
Gracie Mansion—the official residence of the Mayor of New York City—got its new occupant on 4 November 2025. The name is Zohran Mamdani, an Indian-origin Muslim, who once protested alongside some Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) supporters against the attempt to construct the Ram Mandir atop the ruins of the Babri Masjid. This is the same masjid […]
Arthur Koestler wrote, "Yet to this day a large number of Indians give that curious impression of never having quite grown up, of a rather moving, child-like quality, an arrested development not of the intellect but of the character, which seems somehow blurred, soft, undecided and vague, without proper contour and individuality. In extreme cases, […]
If I found myself entirely absorbed in the service of the community, the reason behind it was my desire for self-realization. I had made the religion of service my own, as I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me […]
In September 2021, addressing a seminar organised by Pune-based Global Strategic Policy Foundation, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Sri Mohan Bhagwat said, “Hindus and Muslims in India have common ancestors. For us, the word Hindu is synonymous to the rich heritage brought to us by our motherland, ancestors and the culture and in this context […]
Today casteism is rampant. It is a new phenomenon. Old India had castes but no casteism. In its present form, casteism is a construct of colonial period, a product of imperial policies and colonial scholarship. It was strengthened by the breast-beating of our own “reformers”. Today, it has acquired its own momentum and vested interests. […]
Padma Shri awardee and one of the most versatile singers of Bollywood, Sonu Nigam, performed at the NDTV Good Times Concert, held at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC), Dal Lake, on 26 October 2025. However, the concert didn’t attract much audience. The reason lies in a boycott campaign started by a Kashmiri Muslim and […]
This United Front—Islamism and Communism—functions mostly at a psychological level. But it presents itself as a political alliance also whenever specific issues affecting the welfare of Hindu society come up before the Parliament or are debated in public. The United Front between Islamism and Communism has been in existence and active since the early forties […]
Masses, kings, philosophers, economists and now politicians have always been puzzled about the sources of wealth. Some have thought that wealth is in agricultural land; wars have been fought to capture agricultural land. Some others have thought wealth is in minerals, and wars have also been fought to capture mineral-rich areas. Still others have claimed […]