An open letter to Europa
Check this: http://witness-to-our-times.org/
Read moreButchered in Bihar: a view from the outside
See Balu’s piece on Bihar elections, Nov 2015.
Read moreAn Indian view on Derrida and post-modernists
Check Balu’s piece on Derrida’s the force of law.
Read moreHow about speaking the truth about reservations?
[Published on Swarajya magazine Oct 14, 2015] What happens to the future of Indian intellectual scene when most of projects driven by its intelligentsia propagate perverted truths for self-seeking purposes? “Satyam Vada,…
Read moreCaste-based reservations and ‘social justice’
Check Balagangadhara’s paper on Caste-based reservations and ‘social justice’
Read moreCommon sense ideas about the caste system
I 1. When I took the caste-system as an example, what am I doing? I am showing that turning the standard story on its head is a child’s play: caste…
Read moreWhat can India offer?
[Published on outlookindia, July 05, 2007] Today, India has become a global player of significant political and economical impact. Europe and India are facing each other as equal partners in…
Read moreIndian View from Outside: Quotas, Rational & Moral?
[Originally appeared in New Indian Express Sep 11, 2015] Read Jakob de Roover’s piece on reservations on dailyon.in & on swarjyamag. From the perspective of constitution, constitution debates, check https://www.academia.edu/16478230/Caste-based_reservation_and_social_justice_in_India The problem…
Read moreDark Hour of Secularism: Hindu Fundamentalism and Colonial Liberalism in India
[Appeared in Making sense of the Secular: Critical perspecitves from Europe to Asia (Ed. Ranjan Ghosh), Routledge, 2013, pp 111-130] The relation between religion and politics remains one of the…
Read moreSecular theme: cognitive stages of development — concrete vs abstract
1. The religious idea I am talking about in chapter 3 is this: Concrete and abstract characterize human thinking in the different phases of its development. By the time we…
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