Kashmir’s past is seething with unpleasantness but the author refrains from sugarcoating, embellishing, or sandpapering these realities for political correctness or to create a superior impression.
Tag: history distortion
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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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The Public Ignoramus
Decades of self-loathing has denied the younger generation access to its magnificent Indian heritage.
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A textbook case of Indian history howlers
Filling young impressionable minds with false concepts has been the bane of modern Indian education.
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Updated facts about the Ram Temple at Ayodhya
A review of the facts pertaining to the Ram Janmabhumi case makes it clear that the construction of the temple is the only viable solution to the dispute.
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The textbook vision of Indian History
The vision of history propagated by the school and college textbooks in India is a caricature of the real past, explicitly serving the political goals of Marxism.
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A Defense of Swadeshi Historiography
An unbiased analysis by Indians of their own civilizational history is vital to remove the shroud of distortion that has covered them for so long.
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Significance of Hindu Society
Despite suffering from repeated invasions and a degenerative climate in their society, Hindus have still managed to sustain their culture, though the future is dependent upon their will to conserve it.
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Danger! Educated Gypsy
Ian Hancock's book on the Romani people, who trace their origins to India, is an instructive account of Romani history, identity and the challenges they face in the quasi-hostile environs of the modern West.
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Academic bullies
Audrey Truschke may have an eminent position in the academe, but the record of her ideological and academic mentors is such that she must be more restrained in how she engages with and addresses the 'outsiders'.