Issuing fatwas has become fashionable nowadays. If a Mufti wants to gain some popularity, all he has to do is issue a fatwa against a popular celebrity like A.R Rahman. The TRP-hungry media news channels immediately go on a rampage of inviting political party spokespersons, journalists, religious leaders and commentators to debate on the fatwas. …
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Is The MASUKA Fiasco A Distraction
The National Campaign Against Mob Lynching (NCAML) had organised a rally for the Manav Suraksha Kanoon (Masuka) pledge on 12 July 2017. The Masuka law is an anti-mob lynching law proposed for the protection of human lives against crimes perpetrated as mob lynchings. About 30 participants of the rally were detained by the Delhi Police …
I Am A Practising Hindu. My Single Most Concern For India Is…
I am writing this post today as a practising Hindu, grateful to be from a well-to-do-yet-middle-class family in Singapore. I recently read an article written by Rana Ayyub, a left 'liberal' and 'secular' journalist from New Delhi. I have been contemplating for some time to write a reply to her, but I have decided against …
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Anti-Hindu Agenda of India Today!
Indian National media houses these days are spewing so much hatred towards Hindus and Hindu mythology, that it is becoming a norm. The Leftist so-called intellectuals are feeling threatened by the rise of Hindu Rightist intellectuals, and they are ready to be paid to write crap about a subject whose depth they have hardly understood. …
Bharat Mata Ki Jai – A Reply to Sanjukta Basu
With immense amount of respect, I bow down to Bharatha, my punya bhumi and my janma bhumi, the land of Vedic civilization, which has been the only civilization that referred to the world as one huge family; “Vasudeiva Kutumbhakam”. Recently someone commented on my social media profile that “Hindutva” needs more women like me. My …
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Being childfree
(Update on 1 August 2018: Recently, my thoughts about children have changed. I'm not sure if it is the age I'm in right now (30) or what else, but I can't get rid of the thought that if I had married when I was 25 or even 28, I would have a small child right …
New-age gurus and cults
Have you ever been in a cult? So much so that you have never realised that it is a cult? It gives you an amazing feeling to be in the presence of "like-minded" people and a charismatic "guru". I have been through one, albeit for only a short period of a few weeks. I attended …
