Which of us are Aryans? is a collection of five essays dealing with the politically volatile question of Aryan identity. Romila Thapar shows that the Sanskrit word arya (airiia in Old Iranian) did not denote a race but a linguistic […]
The Mahabharata needs no introduction. One of the greatest epics of all time, the story spans over one lakh shlokas, or over two lakh verses. The original work, written by Veda Vyasa in Sanskrit, has about 1.8 million words. The […]
After the recent acts over Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, Hindutva ideologue Ram Madhav, celebrating the occasion stated that his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was honouring of the sacrifices of Dr Shyam Prasad Mukherjee and thousands others […]
ATTARI: Not only Sikhs from Nankana Sahib and Hindu followers of Guru Nanak Dev from the Sindh province of Pakistan participated in a nagar kirtan, but many Muslim families of Nankana Sahib accompanied it to Wagah border in their vehicles […]
A picture of security personnel publicly flogging a man tied to a wooden frame is being shared on social media as example of atrocities on Muslims in India. The picture shows a crowded stadium where the incident is taking place. […]
For a young mind, reading Munshi Premchand and getting familiar with his characters, was a reality check of the society we live in. It crumpled perceptions and brought searing truth through his words staring in the face of a young […]
The gangrape and murder of two teenage girls was reported in the Katra village of Budaun district, Uttar Pradesh on May 27, 2014. The two girls, cousins, from the Dalit Maurya community, were kidnapped, gang-raped and hanged from a tree […]
In June, Theresa May resigned from her post of Prime Minister because she couldn’t ride the Brexit tiger. A referendum, she said, which no one had thought they would win, had set up an impossible dilemma. The trouble, as she herself […]
Our understanding of religion in modern India is, amongst others, greatly influenced by Hinduism and the distorted aggressive political statement of Hindutva. In this book, Salman Khurshid attempts to place Islam in the context of modernism, and the Indian Muslim […]
Wonderful concert!” I looked at the woman who breathed charm and camaraderie as she congratulated our team after our musical tribute to Mahatma Gandhi in Columbus city, on our US tour this summer. She introduced the man beside her, “My […]
