Why Padma Award for Sharad Pawar is a disgraceful chapter?
I belong to a generation where the wicket of Sachin Tendulkar was the most prized possession for a bowler. In a cricket frenzy India, the stakes of any intensely volatile cricket ...
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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 ...
Jallikattu has an answer to why India was attacked and ruled by so many foreigners?
“While the protests in other states was about demonetisation, for want of foods and higher wages, Tamilnadu stood out for its protests over Jallikattu; for an entertainment?” My senior colleague commented. ...
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. ...
Ramdhonu to Rongdhonu is not a small change, it is a part of a bigger plan
The Bengali word for Rainbow has been changed. Henceforth, a rainbow in Bengali shall be known as 'Rongdhonu (রংধনু)', instead of Ramdhonu (রামধনু). A decision to change the word was taken ...
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. ...
Is Devdutt Pattanaik really a scholar or an overrated Pop-Mythologist?
Almost all modern Indologists, all modern Indian education, all modern Indian religion is looked upon from an explicitly and unabashedly Semitic or Abrahamic point of view, arising from the Colonial superstructure ...
Captain Kohli is transforming the team in a very special way
The International Cricket Council announced yesterday that the Indian cricket team under Virat Kohli would end this year as the No:1 Test playing side in the world, a few minutes after ...
Was Rajinikanth behind Jayalalithaa’s defeat in 1996?
Jayalalithaa suffered defeat in 1996 polls because of me, says Rajinikanth The cinema connection of the Dravidian politics in the state of Tamil Nadu is world renowned. Movie actors have left ...
BJP might be on a suicidal track in Tamilnadu
Mahatma Gandhi thought “All English-knowing men have enslaved India”, and said in 1918 “Unless Hindi was given national status, all talk of Swarajya was useless”. He established Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar ...
After Amma: Why Tamil Nadu Politics will undergo a renaissance?
When Jayalalitha cruised to power in the recently held Tamil Nadu assembly elections for the fifth edition, it demonstrated complete hegemony of a party at that given point of time. That ...
