Offstumped in a New Avatar
With reasonable assumption, I can safely say that regular readers of this blog were also readers of Offstumped in its previous incarnation as part of the excellent Indian National Interest umbrella of...
View ArticleWendy Doniger is a Syndrome
Introduction Wendy Doniger has bestowed a rather flippant interview in Outlook India on the eve of the release of her new book, The Hindus: An Alternative History. The title is sufficiently pompous,...
View ArticleDecember 8, Vir Sanghvi for Dummies
Vir Sanghvi takes an (un)welcome break from his culinary columns and embarks on a noble mission of educating fellow Indians about the virtues of secularism in the tenor we are familiar with. The...
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How Hindus are bled by a 1000 cuts
A brief pictorial representation showing the links between the weapons and how they’re connected. Legend: The ones in large font in Red show the biggest threats. Click here to view the full size of the...
View ArticleIntroducing Prekshaa
An average, devout Hindu knows next to nothing about Hinduism while his Muslim or Christian counterparts know enough to defend their respective faiths. And so the average devout Hindu does one of these...
View ArticleFather, Spare us Thy Ignorant Sermon
First, credit where it is due: sincere thanks to my all-knowing Twitter friends Gopi and Ranganaathan for bringing this to my attention. Preface A certain Father Dominic Emmanuel seems to have taken it...
View ArticleExploiting Dalits in the Name of Beef
Introduction I’d have been surprised if this hadn’t happened at Osmania university. It was past midnight on Sunday when the organisers of the festival located one of the students who strongly opposed...
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Why Blame Others When Hindus Themselves are Cowards?
NOTE: This is my translation of Pratap Simha’s piece titled Hindugale Haedigalaagiruvaaga Anyarannu Doori Phalavenu that appeared in Kannada Prabha on August 25, 2012. As always, comments and criticism...
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Varsha Will Live On
An obituary is the mightiest writer’s block. And so this shan’t be an obituary. One writes obituaries to dead people. Varsha Bhosle will live forever. Her bodily death is, in the highest tradition of...
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Was he Merely a Great Maratha or the Hero of Hindu Hearts?
Note: This is a translation of Pratap Simha’s piece that appeared in Kannada Prabha on November 19, 2012. But who was he really? Do we go by the opinions of analysts who put him on par with political...
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