India’s high marriage rage victimizes tribal and rural communities, it shouldn’t raise the age of marriage further The government a few months ago announce a “review” panel for deciding the legal age…
हम भी देखेंगे Ham bhi dekhenge
हम भी देखेंगे हम देखेंगेविधिवत है हम भी देखेंगेवो युग कि जिसका वादा हैजो वेद-पुराण में साधा हैकलियुग के दानव दहशतगर्दमाया की तरह उड़ जाएँगे धर्म वीरों के पाँव तलेये धरती धड़-धड़…
Draft Freedom of Religion Act for Indigenous Traditions
An act providing the freedom of religion for all communities and the freedom to practice their traditions without interference or unsolicited proselytization. For a background on how “Freedom of Religion” differs for…
Constitutional Minorityism: India as A Religious Apartheid State
Cover picture updated Dec 30, 2020 Former prime minister Manmohan Singh had famously said that ‘minorities have the first claim on (the country’s) resources’. While this was hailed as a ‘secular’ statement,…
Mother Teresa Debate – Of Saints, Priests and Seva
[Avadhoot Bhagwan Ram Kustha Sewa Ashram reportedly treating the highest number of leprosy patients in the world] Avadhoot Bhagwan Ram Kustha Sewa Ashram reportedly treating the highest number of leprosy patients in…
Why Murti-Puja (“idol worship”) is an antidote to fundamentalism
Forgive me, Oh, Shiva, my three paap! I came on a pilgrimage to Kashi forgetting that you are omnipresent. In thinking about you I forgot that You are beyond thought. In praying to You I…
Why is social media criticising Indian mainstream media: the Presstitutes Controversy
“You’re entitled to your own opinions. You’re not entitled to your own facts.” Attributed to US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Gen. V K Singh’s appellation of “presstitutes” in a Tweet caused…
Call out Muslim Phobia, debunk Islamophobia
The attacks in Paris on Charlie Hebdo bring to a fore fault lines in Europe. It has fuelled a European right that is calling for bans on Muslim immigrants. A major French…
Rape in India – Why it becomes a worldwide story
[Plight of Indian women is a marketing tool for the Global evangelical movement.] Rape is a terrible crime, a case where the victims are overwhelmingly women and the perpetrators overwhelmingly men. Every…
RTE Act is destructive and communal
[India needs a decentralised education model that does not impose city standards on schools in villages and tribal areas.] “India is more illiterate than it was fifty or a hundred years…