indian secularism

No, the Taliban haven't taken over yet but this is part of a play created by a Hindu teacher in an RSS run school- Shishu Bhartiya Vidyalaya Malviya Nagar, Aishbagh Lucknow.. Meanwhile, Hindu Twitterati has been sharing an edited version of the video. But here is the complete video of the students offering prayers in [...]

Modi Phenomenon There is a new phenomenon on the world scene: his name is Narendra Modi.  Born in a small Gujarat town in a low caste but devoted Hindu family, very poor but laborious, already as a child he helped his father in his job as tea vendor at the Vadnagar railway station. In the [...]

  “Several Hindu organisations have taken up the issue and are protesting the setting up of this university. Interestingly, they have been receiving a lot of support from the local Muslims who say that this university is bad news. The Muslims who pray at the Tirupati temple feel that the town was peaceful and now [...]

In western developed countries the very idea of Christianity standing up for secularism would be laughed off as part of some stand-up comedy act. But in India this is in fact the macabre reality. Here the Church claims to be standing up for secular ideas against the threat of Hinduism. This should really come as [...]

The impending 2014 American withdrawal from its Afghan quagmire is beginning to impact on India in many ways, most manifest of which was the latest episode of Pakistani jihadi violence at the Balnoi sector in the Poonch region along the Line of Control (LOC). Gruesome as it is, the sneak killings of our soldiers Sudhakar [...]

Is the  Indian version of European Secularism anti Hindu ? Lets look at Chief  Minister Narender Modi and Emperor Akbar through Indian Secular eyes as a case study to find out how secularism in India works. For example In India, a small band of journalists, activists and politicians, all of who parade themselves as ‘Secularists’ [...]