Sunday, July 25, 2021

Pakistan, Taliban and the double edged sword of Islam

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  When religion enters politics, individual believers hope that their personal beliefs are reflected in the public sphere. When religion e...
Monday, March 22, 2021

Leftist Indian history presents a dead end of misrepresentations for secular practising Hindus.

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Recently, I came across this very illuminating article from 1994, by Dharma Kumar, ' Left Secularists and Communalism '. It is on th...
Monday, January 04, 2021

Aurangzeb, The Man and the Myth, Audrey Truschke, Book Review-Part 3

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 (continued from Part 2 )  3. A third set of problems - failure of contextualization A significant portion of Ms. Truschke's contextuali...
Sunday, January 03, 2021

Aurangzeb, The Man and the Myth, Audrey Truschke, Book Review-Part 2

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(continued from Part 1 ) 2. The problem of citing selective facts. Audrey Truschke, in a number of instances, omits mentioning facts salient...

Aurangzeb, The Man and the Myth, Audrey Truschke, Book Review - Part 1

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This book and its author have been in the news for a few years.     Ms. Truschke's primary aim in this book appears to be to absolve Aur...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

On being mentioned in a Pakistani newspaper

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A response to this column had slipped my mind till now. It is unexpected to see one's name mentioned in a newspaper, and by someone I...
Friday, March 11, 2016

On being called an Islamophobe

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On twitter, someone tweeted in response to current Taliban infighting, "From 1990-1994/5, we remember intense infighting when the M...