The lack of any critical analysis of Islam has emboldened it as the secular world remains tied to its Abrahamic roots.
Author: Kausik Gangopadhyay (Kausik Gangopadhyay)
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Why all religions are not the same
A synopsis of "The heathen in his blindness", in which Professor S. N. Balagangadhara demolishes the idea of analyzing non-Abrahamic cultures through the western religious framework obsessed with theory-making.
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Looking back at tomorrow
Harari’s second book (Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow) breaks many a modernist myth but ends up shouldering, perhaps unavoidably, a rather excessive baggage of biology.
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Fun in the time of Mahabharatam
Apart from being a profound spiritual and philosophical commentary, the Mahabharatam is deeply humane in its treatment of the ephemeral pleasures of life.
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Secularism as a colonial project
Jakob De Roover's recent book, 'Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism (Religion and Democracy)' is a fine study of the evolution of the principle of secularism, its inherent limitations and its striking dissonance with the civilizational ethos of India.
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Non-ignorable ideas of a non-ignorable man
Examining the broad ideas in Tufail Ahmed's recent book, Jihadist Threat To India: The Case for Islamic Reformation by an Indian Muslim.
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American Progressives also typify others: Olmsted and Pollock
There are striking parallels between the seemingly progressive yet deeply prejudiced views of leftist American intellectuals of the 19th century and today.