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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]