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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]