“Kashmir is an integral part of India.” The slogan catches my eye as we pass by Badami Bagh, the army cantonment. It flashes on an electronic board. This battle has to be fought beyond billboards, I …
When Children Bought Hundred Guns In A Single Day A Psychologist’s Journeys Through Troubled Kashmir Part 2
We decide to go to the ancestral home of a friend. The driver on discovering we are a group of Kashmiri Hindus gets uncomfortable. He asks personal and probing questions. He wanted to know how long …
When Children Bought Hundred Guns In A Single Day A Psychologist’s Journeys Through Troubled Kashmir Part 1
The Kashmir valley has turned green. This is what I notice as I come out of the Srinagar airport and drive to my hotel. This is another green, the green of Islam that seems to have taken roots …
Why The Hindu Becomes Silent When His Temples Are Desecrated?
“Why is there silence over the desecration of the temple in Delhi? Forget the media and intellectuals, why are even the ordinary Hindus not speaking up?” A friend asked me in a get together. We both …
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Is Bengal Heading Towards A Genocide?
India, it is said, lives in her villages. But she can be understood through the slogans that rents her skies and the way her rulers try to suppress them. In today’s Bengal saying ‘Jai Shri Ram’ is …
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Why Amartya Sen Fails See An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Victor Hugo once famously said, “No army can stop an idea whose time has come.” Amartya Sen doesn’t seem to have read this quote. Otherwise he would not have made the comment that Modi has won the …
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