Dharma
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Why India will not lose her soul to missionaries
X.T.M argues that India will not lose its Hindu soul to missionaries, because societies are shaped by elites, not headcount, and India’s elite is not converting. He starts from a…
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The Self-Confident Hindu
X.T.M asks whether a self-confident Hindu majority is a bad thing, arguing that India is a source rather than an appropriator of culture and that a confident majority held to…
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She carried an entire civilization in her hands
Sharing a Hindu American Foundation Mother’s Day note, the authors argue that Hinduism resists imperial pressure by evolving rather than hardening as they say Islam does, and that a civilisation…
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Men of State, and the Great Mahatma
X.T.M sets four house positions: Jinnah and Nehru were men of state, judged as builders of states; Gandhi was a man of Dharma, a different category; Ambedkar is a constitutional…
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Vantara, Caste, and the Fragile Commons
The author defends Anant Ambani’s Vantara wildlife refuge as a possible expression of Indian civilisational ethos, and argues that caste, also present in Pakistan, must be openly examined on Brown…
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Zohran Mamdani and the Question of Civilizational Belonging
X.T.M answers Kabir’s comment on Zohran Mamdani, arguing that speaking Hindi-Urdu and quoting Bollywood are surface markers, that Indian identity is anchored in Dharma, and that Mamdani therefore reads as…
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Browncast: Vishal Ganesan; The Hindu Case Against Hinduism?
Hosts Amey and Dr Omar Ali talk with lawyer Vishal Ganesan about his essay on Frontier Dharma and what being Hindu means in the diaspora. He argues that mainstream media…
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The Dance of Indian Modernity and Tradition
The Emissary argues for a middle path between nostalgia for a golden age and contempt for the past, holding that Dharma is the idea that has sustained Indian identity, while…
