This comment offers a reflection on Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s film, The Kashmir Files (TKF), released in early 2022. I watched the film in a special screening in a hotel in…

Hinduism and the caste system constitute the central components of the discussion on India in the modern-day discourse even if some sections of academia have been assertive that these are…

Initially published at: swarajyamag Despite government control, temples have become sites of mismanagement, harassment, and commercialised rituals. Ironically, temples survived for millennia without any control even as India went through…

The article was first published in: https://pragyata.com/is-yoga-hindu/ The claim, “Yoga is Hindu”, creates more problems than it solves as it leads us into the blind alley of identity politics. We…

This controversy shows that the secular state and its principles give enormous opportunities to create new problems. The Hijab controversy began as a dispute between a few Muslim students and…

Continued from Part 1 Opposing proselytisation = Casteist    The Hindutva movement is widely and correctly described as being anti-proselytisation. In arguments that criticise the movement for being casteist, Hindutva’s anti-proselytisation stance…

The labeling of the Hindutva movement as casteist leaves a lot to be desired. Introduction The Hindutva movement is at an unprecedented position in India today. Led by the charismatic Narendra Modi,…

“The Heathen in his Blindness”: Asia, the West and the Dynamic of Religion. S.N. Balagangadhara 2nd ed. Manohar, New Delhi, 2005 (1994), pp. xii + 503, Rs. 595.00 Reconceptualizing India…

Dharampal was a great Gandhian thinker and a prolific writer and this year happens to be his birth centenary. He was convinced about the imminent requirement for an unbiased understanding…

The current hyperbolic preoccupation with race in the Anglosphere has provided an opportunity for some to link caste to race as though they are cognate phenomena of oppression. In this…