SN Balagangadhara now looks at how colonialism of the past generates a disturbing colonial consciousness in the present. Colonial consciousness is a phenomenon of colonial thought deeply permeating in ...

Editor’s Note: A fortnightly summary and analysis of news and events that the mainstream media missed out on. This is the first instalment of the Chronicles. The author will do his best to keep the ...

So concluded Arnold Toynbee, the great historian who chartered the rise and fall of civilisations he identified on earth. He stated that the response to the challenges faced by a culture determines ...

Many readers might remember this poster that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was photographed holding while attending an event in our country – it carried the illustration of a young girl and the line ‘smash ...

Amongst many allegations levelled by the critics against Savarkar, the following two are most prominent: Savarkar “apologised” to the British and consequently turned into a “British agent” as part of ...

Imagine this: While traveling through a foreign land, you find an announcement of a public lecture about your country at your hotel. Being free that afternoon and feeling nostalgic for home, you and ...

If there is a single episode that one can imagine and understand as to why Chhatrapati Shivaji is considered such a great persona, then it would be the killing of Afzal Khan. The Pratapgad campaign is ...

A few years ago, the self-professed history buff Saif Ali Khan named his son from his second wife Kareena Kapoor Khan as Taimur. In the Indian context, Taimur reminds one promptly of the cruel Central ...

In the decades after Indian independence, Western powers, led by the UK and later increasingly the US, were irritated and disappointed with Nehru’s India. Nehru’s exaggerated view of his world ...

“Bolshevism is not merely a political doctrine; it is also a religion, with elaborate dogmas and inspired scriptures. When Lenin wishes to prove some proposition, he does so, if possible, by quoting ...

Muslims are an oppressive majority and a turbulent minority. Nothing illustrates this adage more starkly than this clip (1) of a handful of policemen running for their lives from a massive mob in ...