What is it like to be a Hindu in West Bengal?
The years preceding independence were the worst for the Hindu population of Bengal. Muslims at 53% outnumbered Hindus at 41%, but the two communities lived cheek by jowl in most areas. ...
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After secularizing ‘Ramdhonu’, West Bengal Government targets Durga Pujo
After changing the name of Ramdhenu (Rainbow) to Rongdhenu, Mamata Banerjee's secularism has found a new target: Durga Pujo. In the Republic Day parade, the theme for West Bengal's tableau was ...
Shiv Sena is just one month away from extinction
Uddhav Thackeray announced in his Republic Day address that his party will never form an alliance with the BJP again and will fight the BMC polls alone, thus paving the way ...
Explaining “The banishment of Sita”: The most misrepresented episode of Ramayana
How “scholars” on Hinduism are propagating their “interpretation on banishment of Sita” to banish Ram from our lives. Below is a sample from the best-selling book by Wendy Doigner, acclaimed scholar ...
Why self styled liberals like Shobhaa De can never get our traditions right?
At the core of the present row over Jallikattu lies a question of morality and subjectivity. That we need to keep a common minimum baseline of reality is of prime importance. ...
The Hijackers of the Jallikattu movement
Why Jallikattu is inherently Hindu: Vaishnavite tradition is profoundly descriptive about Jalikattu. Tamil Azhvars (Vaishnavite saints and seers) have for long sung about episodes of Krishna taming bulls. The bull and ...
Tamil Nadu – The land of the Cholas is now a leading consumer of British inspired poisons
Tamil Nadu’s golden age was a 1000 years ago and ever since the end of that age, the region never saw any large scale military-imperial revival. The Cholas were the last ...
Why Jallikattu Ban will go down in History as a watershed moment?
As far as rituals and customs are concerned, the states of our vast nation are mini countries in themselves, each one has unique festivals and a distinct way of celebrating them. ...
BMC Elections: Paranoia grips Shiv Sena as BJP looks to go solo this time
Mumbai’s paper tigers are at it again. In their editorial Saamna, the Shiv Sena has issued a veiled threat to its ally the Bhartiya Janata Party. It has stated that those ...
Rainbows in West Bengal are now Secular phenomenons
Language evolves naturally, while Grammar is always formulated by language scholars, the meaning of words come into existence based on multiple factors which also include cultural and civilizational history of the ...
You live in a Mughal-British Hybrid state, just that you don’t know about it?
Nehruvian socialism has always been a concept that believes in the uprooting of social norms, ethics and values in exchange for the economic infiltration of unrelated cultures into a native fabric. ...
West Bengal’s intellect and Kerala’s literacy – Are they really what they claim?
Over a hundred years ago, in a letter to his fellow revolutionary - Motilal Roy, Sri Aurobindo remarked, "The intellect of Bengal has been so much fed on chemical tablets of ...
