Recent Posts
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India vs Bharat – That’s the crux
The recent comments of the RSS chief on the dichotomy between India and Bharat and the attention they have attracted from all quarters present a great opportunity to bring into focus what I believe is the crux of the process of finding a meaningful solution to the problem of rising...
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Madurai Sultanate : Episode 3 – Mubarak Shah and his Lover
Episode 3: Mubarak Shah and his Lover Khusrav Shah puts his bloody stamp on South India Click here to listen to other episodes. Khusrav Shah puts his bloody stamp on South India
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On the Biology of Vegetarianism
The philosophical and nutritional impact of food on violent behavior It is often said of sausages, that if people knew how they were made, most wouldn’t eat them. In the carefree period of my days as an avenging vegetarian vigilante; I put to good use a variation of this argument to implore...
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Women’s Safety and the Public Goods Argument
The brutal gang-rape of a young woman in a moving bus in Delhi has provoked huge amount of public outrage and protests all over the country. Also, the ineffective and unresponsive state of the internal security apparatus in the country has come under attack from various quarters. Naturally, there has...
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India’s Pakistan Conundrum
Napoleon is rumoured to have advised that nations must learn to ignore the pinpricks of war if they were to avoid the cannon shots there were sure to follow, but the Emperor had no answer to Fourth Generation Warfare either, nor did he know of nuclear deterrence. In the realm...
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Indian Political Discourse And Art Of Car Maintenance
This short post is extension of the metaphor from old post. Consider a scenario, what if we Indians drove our cars the way we drive our democracy. Well initially things appear fine, car appears to be in a perfect condition, so we start to wherever we want to go. It’s a...
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Lal Salaam comrade editor
Dear Mr.Editor, Your newspaper is now at the forefront of the secular crusade of ‘taking the aggression out of masculinity’. This is really a worthwhile cause. Your newspaper has been doing a wonderful work in this direction by identifying the elements of aggressive masculinity lurking behind the corners of that...
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Why is Narendra Modi Opposed?
[ Editor's Note : The author of this post is a research scholar from JNU. But he would like to remain anonymous due to considerations about the left leaning culture in his centre and especially the hatred for Modi prevalent there.] Narendra Modi has been the victim of the longest running defamation campaign in India’s political history....
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The Thatcher Parallel
All politicians in modern day democracies suffer from an acute sense of vanity at some point in their career. It leads them to believe that their participation in the body politic makes an enormous difference to the lives of the masses in just the same way beauty pageant contestants believe...
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The Contrarian Political Currents of Karnataka
A precursor to the upcoming assembly elections There is overwhelming electoral evidence to suggest that 21st Century Indian democracy is essentially about governance and development politics, rather than about caste or identity. Since the dawn of the new millennium there have been 77 electoral battles, both nationally as well as...
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UPDATED – CRI’s Representation to Justice J.S.Verma Committee
On January 5, 2013, we, CRI, had communicated via email our suggestions/comments (“First Representation”) to amendments to criminal law relating to safety and security of women in response to the Public Notice. In addition to the suggestions made in our First Representation, we have received inputs from our readers, some...
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CRI’s Representation to Justice J.S.Verma Committee
(Updated- CRI intends to submit a supplementary representation to the Verma Committee by end of day today. We request our readers to submit their suggestions/comments by tonight on the first representation in the comments section to the first representation (link provided here). Please note that some of these suggestions may...
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Marxist-Sociologist Nutjob Wanks off on the Pages of the Madras Marxist Rag
Thank God I am not in Madras. If I were, my hands would’ve gotten dirty the moment I flipped to that bilious page of the Madras Mount Road Marxist Rag. It is fitting indeed that this vile piece of textual masturbation was published in the Hindu. Okay. It’s technically not...
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Swami Vivekananda, Indian Culture and the charge of Male Chauvinism
Yesterday (03-Jan-2013) scores of Indians were pained by the way ‘The Hindu’ presented an article of pop-psycho-social analysis by a sociologist by name Sanjay Srivastava. Titled ‘Taking the aggression out of masculinity’, the article in a typical western way of looking at Indian society finds Indian culture as deficient and...
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Madurai Sultanate : Episode 2 – The hurricane known as Malik Kafur
Episode 2: The Hurricane known as Malik Kafur A eunuch leads the first Islamic incursions into South India, leaving only devastation in his wake. Click here to listen to other episodes.