Hindutva
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Why India looks West not East
Answering Razib’s question on why India does not look towards China, the author offers three reasons: Sindhi diaspora ties, lingering colonial institutions, and the claim that India’s high culture was…
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Genetics stories in India Today
Shares an extract from an India Today piece on 4,500-year-old DNA from Rakhigarhi, adding that many Hindu nationalists are unperturbed by such findings and that the paper’s publication is still…
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Hinduism was not invented by the British (or Muslims)
Disagreeing with the view that Hindu identity was manufactured by colonialism or by Muslims, the author argues Megasthenes, al-Biruni and Faxian already saw Indians as a distinct people, and that…
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Genetics is not about “dunking” on Hindu nationalists
The author, a geneticist, says geneticists are not out to debunk Hindu nationalists, criticises anti-nationalist triumphalism that misreads the science, argues the Indo-Aryans were highly Indianised by the time their…
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BJPization of Dalits
X.T.M, with a deliberately provocative title, reads the Karnataka result as Dalit voters moving behind the BJP, and speculates that Hindutva, if it ended caste hierarchy, might be welcome, while…
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Can Hinduism Survive?
Asking whether Hinduism can survive, the author contrasts liberal Hindus who say it is not in danger with Hindu nationalists who often fear that better-organised Abrahamic religions are taking over…
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Indian Diplomats in Pakistan harassed
X.T.M quotes a report of Indian diplomats being harassed in Islamabad, then reflects on apologising for one’s community’s failings, contrasting Pakistani and Hindu defensiveness and tying right-wing Hindu mobilisation to…
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Counter factual
X.T.M poses a counterfactual: would a typical Shudra peasant in UP be better off today without British rule, without Turkish incursion, or if Ashoka had replaced Hinduism with Buddhism, noting…
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Fair & Lovely
X.T.M criticises the choice of a white egg donor for a Bollywood director’s children, arguing it sends a ‘white is right’ message in a colour-conscious society and contrasts with Hindutva’s…
