If Rajiv Malhotra the Intellectual Kshatriya General in Chief needs police protection and escort as he escapes full speed in his ChaiPakoraMobile to safety out of his own book and talk event when threatened by 5-6 drunk toothless paan addicts shouting ‘ murdaabaad and give back my dentures! . Then what does this say about [...]
From a lecture by former JNU Vice-Chancellor Prof. Kapil Kapoor before the Indore-based India Inspires Foundation, I have to relate a particularly relevant part, viz. about our Indian “intellectuals”. Any mistakes in my rendering are of course mine. These intellectuals are to be distinguished from Hinduism’s traditional men of knowledge, or Rishi-s. The Rishi-s were [...]
March 25, 2015
Dr Koenraad Elst
Analysis/Insights