Opinion

On December 9 and 10, 2021, two events took place. The first event was “Summit for Democracy 2021”, hosted by the US State Department. The summit was attended by more than 100 countries, including Taiwan. The notable absence from the Summit was Russia, China and Pakistan. The second event was organised in Pakistan by the […]

ACT I: October 31, 1999 The 95 km drive from Bhubaneswar to Ersama couldn’t have taken more than two-and-a-half hours—even if one tallies in the slow pace of life in this coastal Odisha district of palm-fronded villages, simple fisher-folk out to sea in the morning and bringing in their catch before sundown, or farmers and […]

With every step, the government seems to unravel what it sought to achieve with the 2019 constitutional changes on J&K. Given the record, we can only try to imagine what the vision was. With just about everything the government has done in Jammu and Kashmir since taking hands-on control of the place in August 2019, […]

I bow to the eternally sacred abodes, Whose deity is Hara, Whose activities are worthy of Hara, And whose breath of life is dedicated Only to Hara. –    The Shivastotravali by Utpaladeva (#20) The eternally sacred abodes of Shiva are innumerable. For that matter, it is the entire Universe and creation; and eventually one […]

Indians vote on the basis of caste. Indian women are oppressed and subservient. India is geography and not a country. Few people realise that these ideas which form the fashionable common sense about India in the current times are actually ideas generated by Europeans who came to India from the fifteenth century onwards as a […]