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Nuwari of a Story!
March 08, 2026March 8, 2026STORYBy Charu Uppal0 0

Nuwari of a Story!

A single mustard-and-maroon saree becomes the thread weaving together generations of memory. As a mother recounts its journey - from saree to half-saree, curtain, cushion cover, and album cover—her daughter discovers how fabric can carry family history. Each transformation holds laughter, sisterly love, and the ingenuity of making do with what one has. In the end, the saree becomes more than clothing - it becomes a living archive of relationships, creativity, and continuity.

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Inventing the Oppressor: Social Theory and the Logic of the UGC Regulations
March 05, 2026March 5, 2026PERSPECTIVEBy Aryan Anand1 0

Inventing the Oppressor: Social Theory and the Logic of the UGC Regulations

Aryan Anand argues that the debate around the recent UGC guidelines has remained confined to immediate political reactions, ignoring the deeper intellectual frameworks shaping such policies. Drawing on strands of critical social theory, he contends that contemporary policy increasingly operates through rigid oppressor–oppressed binaries. Applied mechanically to the Indian context, this framework risks misreading the complex realities of caste and society. Anand suggests that policies built on such assumptions may ultimately deepen social divisions rather than address them.

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Gaffe or Gambit – Did A R Rahman Cross a Line While Keeping Within Others?
March 02, 2026March 2, 2026PERSPECTIVEBy Sriram Chellapilla0 0

Gaffe or Gambit – Did A R Rahman Cross a Line While Keeping Within Others?

Was A.R. Rahman’s reference to a “communal thing” in Bollywood a careless gaffe—or a calibrated signal within a larger minority-progressive discourse? Situating his remarks within a broader pattern of celebrity secularism, this essay argues that selective invocations of intolerance often coexist with studied evasions on questions of history, identity, and civilizational memory. Rahman’s diplomatic silences—on Aurangzeb, on cultural politics, on ideological alignments—appear less accidental than strategic. The result is a familiar cycle: grievance, outrage, clarification, and international amplification. At stake is not merely celebrity speech, but the narrative framing of Hindu-majority India itself.

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Inside the Temple Crisis: Governance and Preservation Challenges
February 17, 2026February 17, 2026PERSPECTIVEBy Rema Raghavan4 0

Inside the Temple Crisis: Governance and Preservation Challenges

Across India’s temple towns, rising tourist footfall, evolving governance structures, and new revenue models are reshaping how sacred sites are administered and preserved. Temples, once self-sustaining civilizational institutions, are increasingly treated as revenue-generating assets, with properties sold, offerings monetized, and darshan commodified. Rema Raghavan writes that this commercialization displaces local communities, erodes ritual continuity, and weakens the organic moral oversight once provided by resident devotees. As temples transform from living centers of worship into tourist spectacles, the intimate bond between deity, devotee, and community frays. Restoring temples as civilizational epicenters, she argues, requires accountable governance, empowered local participation, and an uncompromising commitment to ritual and heritage preservation.

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An Air of Social Doom: Political Propaganda Passed off as Moral Messaging
February 07, 2026February 13, 2026COMMENTARYBy Sriram Chellapilla1 0

An Air of Social Doom: Political Propaganda Passed off as Moral Messaging

This article by Sriram Chellapilla, the fifth in a series of essays on the subject, argues that celebrity anguish over press freedom, NGOs, and society functions less as moral concern and more as selective political signaling. Using Naseeruddin Shah’s statements as a framing device, the author exposes how unelected NGOs, opaque media ownership, and celebrity activism often mask ideological agendas behind the language of freedom. Chellapilla contends that scrutiny of NGOs and media is neither new nor authoritarian, having been pursued by successive governments. What is troubling, he argues, is the hypocrisy of invoking free speech only when aligned with preferred politics, while remaining silent on censorship and intimidation by “secular” regimes.

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An Indic Reading of Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Part II

Knowledge is not merely to be read or heard as words; on the contrary, it is to be lived, experienced and thus renewed.

In ESSAY

APAURUSHEYATVA OF THE VEDAS: Part 2

Exploring the idea of apaurusheyatva of the Vedas.

In COMMENTARY, HISTORY

Religious Nationalism of the Two Nation Theory

In this article, Adarsh Jha digs for facts behind the much talked about "Two Nation Theory"; and how the two parties debating it are faring, 75 years after the partition.

In ESSAY

WHO AM I?

Atman is the observer that lets the gross body function unhindered, as the 'Self' tries to free itself from the ego & the senses to clean the slate of karma for us all.

In COMMENTARY

Shiva’s symbolism (Hindi)

हिन्दू धर्म को समझने की एक लोकप्रिय विधि है हमारे देवी देवताओं के स्वरुप और चिह्नों पर गहरा विचार करना और इनसे सीख प्राप्त करना।

In PERSPECTIVE

Standing up for the Purusha Sukta

Hindus have long been made to feel ashamed of the Purusha Sukta's casteist elements even though they have no reason to in reality.

In ESSAY

What if We don’t Free Hindu Temples?

The utmost importance of freeing Hindu Temples from State control becomes clearer if we just look at the historical precedent.

In EXCERPT

The Vedic metaphor of Indra’s Net

The metaphor of Indra's net, with its poetic description of the indivisibility of the universe, captures the essence of Hinduism's vibrant and open spirit.

In PERSPECTIVE

Dharma and Development : A Civilizational Balance

When development is not rooted in culture, a nation is reduced to just a geographical landmass. Development and culture are not mutually exclusive in the Indian civilizational context. Sanatana Dharma doesn’t ask us to choose between development and devotion to faith — it asks us to integrate them. Its Purushartha framework enables human fulfillment in every aspect of life, with Dharma as the guiding principle. From the Ram Mandir to the Kumbh Mela, what critics dismiss as distractions are often engines of economy, culture, identity, and belonging.

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गज, ज्ञान और गणेश

गणेश उत्सव में गज, मूषक और दूर्वा हमें हर प्राणी और हर वस्तु का स्थान और महत्व समझने की प्रेरणा और ज्ञान देता है।

In STORY

Arasavalli Suryanarayana Temple – Part 1

As control of Hindu temples by the government gets more widespread, temple priests find it harder and harder to continue their ancestral occupation.

In COMMENTARY

Communal Echoes in ‘Secular’ Discourse : Tropes and Themes in Naseeruddin Shah’s ‘Secular’ Rants

In the next essay of the series of articles on minority-progressive celebrities, Sriram Chellapilla dissects Naseeruddin Shah’s polemics to expose a familiar pattern in India’s “secular” discourse: the distortion of arguments, selective outrage, and the reflexive defense of Mughal icons like Aurangzeb. Through close textual analysis and historical context, the essay shows how misrepresentation, straw-manning, and moral asymmetry function as tools of what the author terms the Minority-Progressive Celebrity (MPC) narrative. At its core, the piece interrogates how Hinduphobia is normalized under the guise of liberalism while minority fundamentalism is minimized or denied.

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The mighty myth of Sikhs saving Hinduism

The narrative of Sikhs coming to the aid of Hindus needs to be re-examined.

In STORY

The Palghar Resolve

One wonders if the sacrifice of our sadhus is what it might take to shake Hindu society from its slumber.

In CASTE IN STONE, ESSAY

Caste and the discourse of Casteism

Shudras in pre-colonial India were totally different from how they are seen in the popular imagination of modern India leading to a perverted discourse that looks for solutions to the problems of the marginalised sections of society in the vague past instead of the concrete present.

In COMMENTARY

Guha's Golwalkar (Part 2)

Examining Ram Guha's perception of Guru Golwalkar reveals not only the studied superficiality of Nehruvian secularists but also serious flaws in the strategic thinking of 'Hindu Nationalists'.

In EXCERPT

The Vedic metaphor of Indra’s Net

The metaphor of Indra's net, with its poetic description of the indivisibility of the universe, captures the essence of Hinduism's vibrant and open spirit.

In ESSAY

A Timeline of Ayodhya – Part 2

Multiple attacks through the centuries with epigraphic evidence shows the importance of Ayodhya.

In ESSAY

The Purpose of Defending Dharma

Dharmic principles form the bedrock upon which Indic civilization has thrived and hence need to be propagated as well as defended.

In BOOK REVIEW

Tenacious Hindu Resistance

Despite repeated onslaughts, Hindus found innovative ways to protect their civilization.

In EXCERPT

Legacy of Muslim Rule In India – Politics and Integration

The Muslim legacy of expansionism still resonates in their politics and their willingness to integrate with the rest of India.

In ESSAY

Behavioural Game Theory approach to inclusive growth

Game theory is the study of how interacting choices of economic agents produce outcomes with respect to the preferences of those agents.

In REPORT

Glimpses of an all-embracing form: The Mahabharata as itihAsa

A retrospective account of a 4-day workshop titled “The Mahabharata as itihAsa” organized by the Indic Academy and jointly conducted by Prof. Vishwa Adluri of Hunter College, New York, U.S.A. and Dr. Joydeep Baghcee of Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany. Held from July 27 to July 30, 2017 at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India.

In ESSAY

Nature’s Basket

Ancient India relied on an elaborate knowledge system to conserve and manage ecology.

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