India is like Europe. The European Union has 24 official languages. All 24 are used for outbound communication. All laws are released in 24 languages. Each state has engineering, medicine, business in their own language. India’s languages serve a larger number of people than many European states. There is no reason why we cannot adopt [...]
June 26, 2014
HHR
Archives, India
Whenever the Indian elections are underway the western media is even more panicked than usual about the impending doom faced by the world’s largest democracy as it falls into the abyss of Hindu fascism, fundamentalism, nationalism, and other assorted ‘reactionary’ forces. The parrot-fashion use of such worn-out phrases and the lazy reliance on the chattering [...]
April 22, 2014
Ranbir Singh
Analysis/Insights, Archives
Both Hindu Forum and Hindu Council claim to be representative by virtue of the fact that they have so many Hindu temples supporting them. The number of 400 is usually touted. But how can the same temples belong to both groups? And since when was this even representative of Hindus as a whole? Does this [...]
July 5, 2013
Ranbir Singh
Analysis/Insights