Recent Posts
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Bisibelebath
( A week long culinary blogging festival celebrated as part of our 3rd anniversary ) Karnataka is a verily a microcosm of India – due to the richness and variety it encompasses in terms of food, languages (Kannada – an umbrella term for its various dialects, Tulu, Konkani, Kodava), culture and traditions....
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Sanjay Dutt and Chorus for pardon
In the past few days there has been heated debate over the conviction of Hindi moviestar Sanjay Dutt in the 1993 Bombay serial bomb blast case by the Supreme Court (SC). Dutt, brother of Congress MP Priya Dutt has been convicted by the Supreme Court for acquiring, possessing arms &...
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Anniversary Blogging Festival
‘Do I dare…..Disturb the Universe?’ asked T S Eliot in his much celebrated poem ‘The love song of J Alfred Prufrock’. Centre Right India, an initiative started in 2010, began by asking similar question. Do we dare disturb the universe and can we challenge the status quo? As we celebrate...
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The Right People – Episode 5 : Sandeep Balakrishna
The Right People is a podcast series initiated by Centre Right India to highlight people who are not politicians or involved closely with professional politics. CRI talks to those who identify with centre-right politics from across the vast Right framework – economic right-wingers, libertarians, traditionalists, Swadeshi right, etc. Undoubtedly, these...
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On Caste and Economics
Since, ancient times India has been described by various foreign travellers as a land of prosperity, harmony and honesty. Even travellers from China-a civilization as great and ancient as India itself- were deeply impressed by the integrity, honesty and prosperity of the Indians. The efficient and clean political system of...
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Of Bala’s Paradesi and the Universality Of Unconscionable Capitalism
As film-maker Bala is adding on to his filmography, he is proportionately turning further away from any sort of commercial trappings and making his movies true-to-self and then to the craft. In other words, while the true-to-self and true-to-craft are perfectly fine and valid as independents, the journey while bridging...
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Anbe Sivam (Love is Sivam)
In this series two films by Kamal Hassan (starred as well as written by him) are studied. While recognizing and respecting the freedom of an artist, the aim of this study is only to show how a particular school of thought Kamal Hassan prescribes to, views Hindus, their history and...
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Who’s feeding on our money?
In his latest op-ed, “The feeding frenzy of kleptocracy“, Shri Sainath himself showed signs of kleptomania by robbing me of my mental peace by his arbitrary, irrational and unreasonable exhortations. He attempts to sway the public debate towards his version of “corporate welfare” bestowed by government on private sector but...
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Muslims are not the only minority!
Think of the word ‘minority’. What is the image that conjures up in your mind? Don’t blame yourself if the only image that comes up is that of a man sporting a skull cap in a pathani or a woman draped in black burqua holding an infant in her arm...
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Personal Inviolability and Diplomatic Immunity in Respect of Serious Crimes
Personal inviolability and diplomatic immunity from criminal jurisdiction still remain among the most problematic issues in modern diplomatic law. Such special privileges have for long effectively protected diplomatic representatives and other foreign officials from interference with their freedom, which may be attendant upon penal proceeding, the objective of which is...
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Idea of India – in defense of capitalism
Why has India not again produced men of the same mettle as in the first half of 20th century? This is a question that has animated me for some time. Consider the quality of men that dotted the Indian landscape in the late nineteenth century and most definitively in the first half of twentieth century – Mohandas...
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Sri Lankan Tamil Problem and Indian Right
(A old letter written by CRI editor Amarnath Govindarajan to an influential voice of Indian Right. He is also an individual who CRI deeply respects) I have just read …….op-ed on the SriLankan issue. As you would have guessed I’m rather saddened at the basic premise of the op-ed’s argument....
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Karnataka Political Scene
Politics is always fascinating to those who follow it closely. After all underneath politics lie People and their emotions. And as such it is always extremely difficult to fathom what is going on. The addicted keep scraping for bits of information, guessing, outguessing, predicting and often taking sides too! In...
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The Dangers of Quasi-Capitalism
(The Lok Sabha passed the new companies bill a few months back. The bill mandates 2% of the average net profits of last 3 years to be spent towards Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). India is the first country to legislate such radical and intrusive ideas. Read this essay for an...
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Koenraad Elst and and Yoga
Dr.Koenraad Elst in http://centreright.in/2013/02/yoga-and-hinduism/ argues that Patanjala yoga is “non-theistic and non-religious”. A Hindu practitioner would find this argument unacceptable. In Hindu-Buddhist traditions religion, spiritual philosophy and spiritual methodology subscribed to by religion have their distinct relevance. And yoga sastra spans these – it has the philosophical backdrop (namely the...