Initially published at: swarajyamag Despite government control, temples have become sites of mismanagement, harassment, and commercialised rituals. Ironically, temples survived for millennia without any control even as India went through…

The article was first published in: https://pragyata.com/is-yoga-hindu/ The claim, “Yoga is Hindu”, creates more problems than it solves as it leads us into the blind alley of identity politics. We…

This controversy shows that the secular state and its principles give enormous opportunities to create new problems. The Hijab controversy began as a dispute between a few Muslim students and…

Continued from Part 1 Opposing proselytisation = Casteist    The Hindutva movement is widely and correctly described as being anti-proselytisation. In arguments that criticise the movement for being casteist, Hindutva’s anti-proselytisation stance…

The labeling of the Hindutva movement as casteist leaves a lot to be desired. Introduction The Hindutva movement is at an unprecedented position in India today. Led by the charismatic Narendra Modi,…

“The Heathen in his Blindness”: Asia, the West and the Dynamic of Religion. S.N. Balagangadhara 2nd ed. Manohar, New Delhi, 2005 (1994), pp. xii + 503, Rs. 595.00 Reconceptualizing India…

Dharampal was a great Gandhian thinker and a prolific writer and this year happens to be his birth centenary. He was convinced about the imminent requirement for an unbiased understanding…

The current hyperbolic preoccupation with race in the Anglosphere has provided an opportunity for some to link caste to race as though they are cognate phenomena of oppression. In this…

The recent judgement by the Supreme Court of India regarding the entry of women into the Sabarimala temple has generated an acrimonious debate in India. The secularists (a broad group including, feminists,…

Reading the western press coverage one gets the impression that Indian farmers are protesting because their livelihoods are at great risk and they face a government in India which isn’t…