“Law has its limitations, particularly in a country where its main corpus continues to be what alien regimes, Islamic and British, had devised for their own imperialist purposes.”Continue Reading
In his composition ‘Jana Gana Mana’ Tagore employs the vision of Śri Kṛṣña in the Mahabharata to conceptualise this ‘Ruler of the Destiny of Bhārata’, as the eternal charioteer sounding the conch shell to guide the course of this nation.Continue Reading
The mention at the very outset at the scrapping of the hitherto effective special provisions is like telling an errant school kid that his expulsion from school is reversible and hence not to be taken seriously!Continue Reading
Much popular fiction around Rammohun Roy’s personality was invented by those for whom it was useful to portray him as a religious eclectic and a rebel.Continue Reading
“Low volume ethnic cleansing” – a trend of non-Muslim families forced to vacate their homes, pull out their children from schools and change neighbourhoods occupied by them.”Continue Reading
Babarao was of the conviction that successfully achieving the political aims of the Indian people needed hard-headed realism, on the lines of the principle of ‘shatham prati shathyam’ (wily in requital; tit for tat).Continue Reading
If assessed in terms of the competing objectives, the Battle of Haldighati can indeed be regarded as a Mewari triumph, because the Rana had successfully defended his territory, and the Mughal invasion had been a miserable failure.Continue Reading
Raja Rammohun Roy with his gigantic intellectual and scholastic prowess, cogent representation of Indian religious, cultural and economic interests prevented the misapprehension and misconstruction of its cultural practices (including polytheism, idolatry, Hindu traditions and even ‘satī’) from being used against Indians. None among the Indians in that period possessed the brilliant faculties of Roy to hold rational and logical discourse in the European public sphere.Continue Reading
“It was, I trow, a joyous sight to see
Their noble Baee her seat of judgement fill.”
(‘Ahalya Baee’, by Mrs. Joanna Baillie)Continue Reading
The Indian constitution today stands as a document representing a tyranny of ideas unleashed on a civilisation, which for thousands of years has been a playground of ideas and refused to be defined by a single idea, book or a thinker.
As seekers and rational thinkers, let our sole allegiance be to the truth and not to the leaders, spiritual or temporal, howsoever hallowed, neither any schools of thought, political, philosophical or spiritual, nor any books. We will outlast them all…Continue Reading
