Original essays written in English and approved translations from Hindi, newest edition first. Where a term of shastra matters in a translation, the Hindi original is authoritative.
329 articles
"Mass murderer of farmers in China and the Soviet Union are pretending to be the savior of farmers in India" When farmers should have been harvesting paddy in their field and probably doing the preparation for the sowing of Rabi crops, the celebrity farmers have been launching ra
4 December 2018 · 4 min read
Background Rajiv Malhotra recently conducted an interview with present Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, the last part of which was released earlier this week. When enquired about government stance of freeing Hindu temples from state control, Piyush Goyal imperiously put the blame o
27 November 2018 · 4 min read
Rajiv Malhotra's brief conversation with Piyush Goyal –who is referred as articulate and intelligent by Rajiv Malhotra probably to show courtesy or merely following the tradition of not dishonouring your guest–is the glimpse of what people in the government think who are supposed
23 November 2018 · 3 min read
CEO of Twitter was recently found posing with a placard saying 'Smash Brahminical Patriarchy', which later generated the criticism from Hindus, and an apology will be the logical culmination of the entire episode, but how the CEO of Twitter posed with such a placard is the produc
23 November 2018 · 3 min read
Rajiv Malhotra's new initiative of Swadeshi Muslims is garnering plenty of attention from the people on our side and the mixture of optimism and criticism has been the response of fellow Hindus so far. While I hold Rajiv Malhotra in high regard for the works which he has done in
21 October 2018 · 4 min read
The recent decision of Supreme court to amend Section 377 of IPC and decriminalize homosexuality has attracted expected response from different streams but the most amusing for me has been the celebration and enthusiasm shown by people who are supposedly our ideological brethren.
21 October 2018 · 5 min read
The #Metoo movement which is currently getting all the attention in India and US is essentially about using victimization as a political tool and establishing the hypothetical notion that narrative is the substitute for truth. The very reason why the stories of trauma are meaning
21 October 2018 · 1 min read
Much has been said about this with 24*7 pounding on media, feminists hail it as a change of narratives and people are falling into this trap. In all this hullabaloo, no one seems to have time for analyzing other aspects of this so-called movement except for what is being presente
11 October 2018 · 3 min read
India has signed a $5 billion defense deal with Russia for the purchase of S-400 missile systems despite the threat of US sanctions. Here are five things that you should know about this much-discussed deal. What is S-400 Triumf? S-400 is one of the world's most advanced air defen
8 October 2018 · 3 min read
Recently, Lt Gen H S Panag in his piece for The Print and Ajai Shukla in his column for South China Morning Post picked a 30 seconds of conversation between Rajat Sharma and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in popular TV show Aap Ki Adalat, claiming that the minister admitted
4 October 2018 · 3 min read
Few days ago, there was a news about Google investing $22 Million in Kai OS Project. Then you would have seen another news saying “Google is working on another android like OS called Fuchsia” and one more news stating “Now Google Chrome-Books will have Windows 10 and Android both
30 September 2018 · 5 min read
Real Estate has always been the favorite option for investors in India. During 2005, Government liberalized its FDI policy for the Real Estate sector. Due to this, foreign investors got a chance to bet on Indian Real Estate Market. There was a sudden surge in Real Estate prices.
9 September 2018 · 3 min read
NOTA has been incrementally brewing an approval from disenchanted Savarna Hindus who are visibly miffed with the appeasement policies of the BJP over the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2018 besides other reasons. BJP in its quintessential trademark of stupidity w
6 September 2018 · 6 min read
The recent verdict by Delhi High Court on IPC 377 legalizing private consensual homosexual relationship has brought to fore a strong debate over merits and demerits of such a judgment. Gay activists seem to have won this round of battle about the legitimacy of homosexuality in a
28 August 2018 · 12 min read
Ever since Atal Ji’s funeral, the propensity to undermine Hindu rituals has been restarted by all those people who have not cared to examine the traditions, irrespective of their political leanings. To find self identifying Hindu Nationalists succumb to this deviation is a sign o
20 August 2018 · 21 min read
What is the Rafale deal and what are Rafale fighter jets? The Rafale fighter aircraft procurement is through an Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) which was signed on 23 September 2016 between the Government of India and the Government of the French Republic for the supply
5 August 2018 · 5 min read
Business Wire India The GST Council took a series of decisions in its 28 th meeting held on 21.7.2018. Shri Ujwal Lahoti, Chairman of The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (TEXPROCIL) said, “the decisions taken by the GST Council are in the right direction which will promo
2 August 2018 · 2 min read
As per Counterpoint Research’s latest analysis on the important Indian smartphone market ( see here ), the premium smartphone segment (>INR 30,000) grew 19% annually and 10% sequentially during Q2 2018 as more consumers upgrade to 2018 flagship launches by different Android OE
25 July 2018 · 5 min read
Should India allow the US to curb its relationship with Russia? The question should be rephrased to, “should India succumb to US pressure and spurn Russian arms”? My view is that it should not. S-400 For one, Putin has led Russia into a rearming program after Yeltsin that has qui
19 July 2018 · 3 min read
The truth is that on the orders of the White House, Vajpayee had tied the IAF hand and foot and forbidden them from overflying Pakistani Air Space. The then PAF Chief is on record as saying that as the IAF did not enter Pakistani territory, what was going on was not a Pakistani c
19 July 2018 · 2 min read
China has already constructed and taken over possession of the Hambantota Port in Srilanka. This is merely further confirmation that while India was fully preoccupied with its casteist communalist politics to steal from the haves and the have-nots for the have lots of the Nouveau
18 July 2018 · 5 min read
To take into consideration the humanitarian values in order to vouch for accepting Rohingya Refugees is the greatest sign of either ignorance on the part of the person on one hand or deliberate treachery on the other. The world today does not run in accordance with morality and r
17 July 2018 · 2 min read
16 th May 2014 was a historic moment in Indian politics. The party that was always considered “destined to be sitting in the opposition”, the party that “didn’t have it to make it large” and the party that had stemmed from the “Communal Sangh” was victorious with an absolute majo
17 May 2018 · 10 min read
The 13th century poet saint Gyandev created a children's game called Moksha Patam. The British later named it Snakes and Ladders instead of the original Moksha Patam. In the original one hundred square game board, the 12th square was faith, the 51st square was reliability, the 57
17 May 2018 · 1 min read