Rajiv Malhotra’s responses to questions by a journalist
By – Rajiv Malhotra There has been a huge petition led by IITB professors. Do you know any of the petitioners personally? I met some of them when I was on tour to discuss my latest book “The Battle for Sanskrit“. Some are experts in Sanskrit while others are experts in other fields. What is common to all of them is a deep interest in More...
Struggles of the Caribbean Hindus
The winds of time have scattered Hindus to the most far-flung and unlikely places across the globe. One such place is the Caribbean. Unknown to most, the Caribbean region is home to a large Hindu community. Guyana, More...
All but lost : In WB, ISIS ideology allowed to thrive and prosper at public expense
By – Jaideep Mazumdar Salafist mullahs issue fatwas against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders. A prominent cleric opines that all women, irrespective of their religion, should cover More...
Hindu power: Part -5
By – Franscois Gautier Paris, France…The leaves of the marronniers (chestnut trees) are turning yellow and falling to the ground, the sky is often gray and the weather getting cold. Frenchmen and French More...
Purvapaksha: Has Shatavadhani Ganesh understood Pollock?
Shatavadhani Ganesh is one of India’s most famous traditional scholars, commanding great mastery over a massive corpus of texts. In this part of the article, I will point out that even such a great mind has serious More...
Hindu power – Part – 4
By – Franscois Gautier is the #LightningStrike of @NarendraModi against Kashmiri terrorists in Pakistan-held Kashmir break the jinx, which, for nearly ten centuries has undermined Hindu Power? I have been More...
The Challenge Of Understanding Sheldon Pollock Part 1: How to make sense of Sheldon Pollock?
A generic purva-paksha of a diverse group is not sufficient Imagine there’s a person who assumes that his knowledge of purva-paksha of one specific school of Vedanta is enough to critique all of Vedanta. The superficiality More...
The eleventh commandment: ‘thou shall not convert’
THE WEST Bengal Government has withdrawn orders on conversion. It has withdrawn an order on furnishing details on conversion following strong exception to it from the State Minorities Commission. Why this forced More...
The Asymmetric Dialog Of Civilizations
The History In contrast with the clash of civilizations now being popularized, I would much rather propose a dialogamong them. But what are the historical reasons for lack of this dialog, and what prevents this More...
How USCIRF Is Undermining Its Credibility By Attacking Hinduism And India
It seems now a quaint moment in recent history. When the United States Commission on International Freedom (USCIRF) was created in 1998 as a mandate of the International Religious Freedom Act, the US was a nation More...