Babri Masjid
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You Cannot Demolish His Mosque and Claim His High Culture
The post argues a civilisation cannot demolish a man’s mosque and claim his high culture too. It says elites on both sides of the 1947 line have done both for…
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Should Babri Masjid have been moved to Pakistan?
In a deliberately provocative piece, X.T.M proposes a rules-based doctrine for sacred-site disputes (excavation, relocation, compensation) given unequal sacred weight, and argues that standardising Hindi on Khari Boli rather than…
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Caste, Aurangzeb, and the Price of Belonging
In four notes the author rejects chasing past voices, warns of a Saffronite echo chamber, argues that avoiding talk of caste preserves privilege, and says Aurangzeb is not a hill…
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Playing with fire ?
After the Babri demolition conspiracy verdict acquitted all 32 accused, the author, rewatching a 2000 Advani interview, weighs three accounts of how the demolition happened and concludes that, if it…
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Belief and Reclamation
The Emissary frames the 5 August 2020 Ayodhya temple foundation as a civilisation’s long-awaited reclamation, retelling Ram’s journey in the Ramayana and arguing that its classification as itihasa, history rather…
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Are the (TV) Mahabharata and Ramayan “Right Wing”?
Asks whether the 1980s Doordarshan Ramayan and Mahabharata serials paved the way for Hindu nationalism, as many Left-liberal Indians argue. The author is fascinated that this view is respectable, and…
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Browncast Episode 73: Conversation with Sadanand Dhume
BrownCast episode 73: the hosts speak with Sadanand Dhume of the American Enterprise Institute, who also writes for the Wall Street Journal, about Konkani Brahmins, Hindutva, the Ram Mandir, the…
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The Ram Mandir Verdict in India. From Dr Hamid Hussain
Hamid Hussain gives his personal reading of the Supreme Court’s November 2019 Ayodhya judgment, which awarded the site to Hindus after a decades-long dispute, against the background of the 1992…
