[Published on India-forum.com on 03/27/2007] I will take up some of the general points, which I think are relevant to the Indian American community at large. First, let me say…
Read more[Published on dailyo.in Sep 08, 2015] Clearly, advocates of the caste-based reservation system are worried by the recent upheavals in Gujarat and beyond. In his “The Patidar idea of reservations”…
Read more[Published on dailyo.in Nov 19, 2015] Our recent piece on the valedictory speech of the minister of HRD at a Kolkata workshop elicited many replies from the readers. Some found that…
Read more[Published on Nov 13, 2015 dailyo.in] From the mouth of some babes, pearls of wisdom and truth fall like gentle rain from heaven. From the mouth of others, idiocies pour…
Read more[Published originally on outlookindia June 20, 2008] social science debate in India has been hijacked by the struggle between secularism andHindutva for decades now. usually the Sangh Parivar is blamed…
Read more[Published originally on outlookindia, Jan 28, 2010] This has been a tumultuous decade for the academic study of India. In his recent Offence: The Hindu Case (2009), Salil Tripathi provides a…
Read more[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 more[Originally appeared on firstpost: http://www.firstpost.com/world/uncirf-hypocrisy-protestant-worldview-not-religious-freedom-2237900.html ] The annual reports of the US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) have long irked politicians and citizens from countries placed on its ‘watch…
Read more[Appeared on niticentral.com ] Rape of a Country Jakob De Roover Imagine. A filmmaker travels to Belgium because she has heard about the pedophilia scandals in the country. She directs a…
Read more[Appeared in neweurope.eu ] After the Paris attacks came the questions: Is this violence caused by Islam or unrelated to religion? Are the perpetrators believers or madmen? Do they represent…
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