Jyotiba Phule went beyond parochial constructs to empower the masses to reclaim their sovereignty by seeking and rejecting slavery. This discourse was later taken up by BR Ambedkar.
The AAP govt has extracted more political capital from sacrilege accountability than any of its predecessors. It now has the opportunity — and the obligation — to match that rhetoric with performance in court.
The oil math is skewed against the White House. The blockade has a slim chance of working. Iran can remain defiant, and China unconcerned, longer than Trump can remain solvent.
Field Marshal Asim Munir, present with his team and notetakers at Iran-US talks, now sees himself and Pakistan playing a more significant role in West Asia.
No matter what some Pakistani experts might say, India's gap is not the same as Pakistan's disconnect when it comes to the tax base. Start with the latest official numbers.
To cater for all contingencies and evaluate all tactical scenarios, the Indian Army war-gamed the possible plans and reactions of both sides in Srinagar.
If the 'math' fails this time, it would have less to do with the voters changing their minds, and more to do with the very ground beneath all calculations being swept away.
Despite damage to key Russian oil infrastructure by Ukrainian drone strikes in March, International Energy Agency data shows Russia’s earnings in March were highest for any month since January 2024.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
Adding Sridhar’s book to my reading list. I have read Sharma’s and can definitely recommend it to others.
It is high time we studied ourselves through our lenses and our perspectives, lest outsiders define who we are and what our traditions are and say, even as they largely lack both an awareness of the cultural context and the reverence for the texts they study, inevitably leading to (unintentionally quoting someone) ‘distortions, misrepresentations, and outright lies’.
And this is a problem even when there is no ulterior motive of conversion or racism or prejudice involved; a simple lack of cultural context, appreciation, understanding, or reverence is sufficient to produce lopsided accounts.
And that has what has happened with the Manusmriti, as it has with much else, only in the Manusmriti, ‘The Laws of Manu’ have become a potent stick with which to beat the Sanatana/Dharmic traditions and demonise it through the bogey of ‘casteism’ (not even a Bharatiya category).
Adding Sridhar’s book to my reading list. I have read Sharma’s and can definitely recommend it to others.
It is high time we studied ourselves through our lenses and our perspectives, lest outsiders define who we are and what our traditions are and say, even as they largely lack both an awareness of the cultural context and the reverence for the texts they study, inevitably leading to (unintentionally quoting someone) ‘distortions, misrepresentations, and outright lies’.
And this is a problem even when there is no ulterior motive of conversion or racism or prejudice involved; a simple lack of cultural context, appreciation, understanding, or reverence is sufficient to produce lopsided accounts.
And that has what has happened with the Manusmriti, as it has with much else, only in the Manusmriti, ‘The Laws of Manu’ have become a potent stick with which to beat the Sanatana/Dharmic traditions and demonise it through the bogey of ‘casteism’ (not even a Bharatiya category).