Climate Activist: The eulogisation of an anarchist
January 26, 2021, will be forever imprinted in the minds of Indians and the diaspora as the day when the venerated national symbol of the state and national flag was desecrated and thrown down and replaced by a Sikh religious flag. In the name of...
The Farcical Extremes of Big-Tech Censorship and the Hypocrisy of the Ultra-Left in its Selective Outrage over Freedom of Expression
On 11 February 2021, my Facebook account of 13 years was disabled without reason. In an age when the world seems to be more lived on the virtual realm than in the real one, I had been also chipping in, albeit in a much lesser way lately than in the...
Are radicals misusing the Farmers’ Protest for their Hidden Agenda?
Mahatma Gandhi famously stopped the Non-Cooperation movement in 1922 following an incident of violence at a police station in Chauri Chaura in Uttar Pradesh. He felt that the movement had lost its moral compass and could not be carried forward in...
Republicanism in India: From Ancient Ganas to the Contemporary Bharatiya Ganarajya
Republicanism is centred on the principle of citizenship in a state-organized as a republic. The word "republic" derives from the Latin noun-phrase res publica ('public thing'), which referred to the system of government that emerged in the 6th...
Guaranteed procurement of food grains by FOOD CORPORATION OF INDIA needs to stop
The Indian Government has notified three new laws for the farming sector that were passed by the Indian Parliament with an overwhelming majority. These are the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce Act 2020 (FPTC Act), the Agreement on Price Assurance...
Integrity and Digitization of the Electoral Process in West Bengal
The General Elections of the United States of America 2020 has seen the incumbent - Donald Trump question the electoral process and alleged that there has been widespread fraud. While the legal challenges to the election of Joe Biden are still...
Turiyavaad: An Ideology of Truth and Transcendence in Life, Society and Politics
Dogma and ideological stagnation have percolated through the cracks and crevices of contemporary life, society and politics. There is a need for freshness, a certain inflow of novelty, to move beyond the...
Standing up for Hindus: In Conversation with Francois Gautier
Francois Gautier is a vocal and visible Dharmic voice, a lover and defender of Hindus in India and abroad. He is an eminent journalist in his own right, and has worked with Le Figaro, DNA and Outlook India. He has written books such as The Guru of...
Political Callisthenics in Didi’s Poschimbanga: Hollow Promises, Corruption, Misrule, Unemployment and Appeasement
The tragedy in West Bengal today is that the claims of the government and the reality on the ground are often miles apart. This is especially true when it comes to employment in the state. Mamata Banerjee and the TMC came to power on a strong...
Tamasoma Jyotirgamaya- Jyotirma Tamasogamaya
Chennai : They say that you must not speak ill of the dead. Going by this logic, I suppose we mustn’t use strong words about Adolf Hitler, Attila or Chengiz Khan. If you subscribe to that school of thinking, pray do not read further. I seldom write...
