In this essay, Dr. Pingali Gopal tries to understand how the narrative surrounding the continuing debate on the status of the tribals of India and how they connect to 'mainstream' Hinduism, which he believes is solely aimed at breaking India, is playing out in the legal, constitutional, social, and religious contexts.
A sneak-peak into the pre-Sulatanate history of the Qutub Complex.
Khushwant Singh's 'A History of the Sikhs' suffers from the same drawbacks that the mainstream secular-liberal scholarship does. The book seems to be serving his bias much more than the objective truth.
This article examines the 'Saamkhya' hypothesis through the lens of sciences and shows that the hypothesis is worthy of adoption as a plausible mechanism for ‘creation’ and for ‘life’.
While much has been spoken about the heroic and long-drawn struggle of Hindus to take back what rightfully belonged to them, an even longer struggle of Hindus for the possession of Krishna Janmabhoomi over the last thousand years has taken a backseat.
Mujib was a true Muslim who saw Syed Ahmed Barelvi’s Wahabi movement as a justified rebellion and took pride in the fact that thousands of Muslim jihadists from Bengal marched barefoot to Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. He believed Pakistan was a just demand for the emancipation of India's Muslims, who were oppressed by Hindu landlords and moneylenders.
This essay gives a comprehensive overview of the evolution of Sikh separatism, and helps understand the underlying causes of the same.