The furore drummed up by mainstream media and the usual attendant rabble-rousers in the incident of the murder and alleged rape of an 8-year old tribal Bakarwal girl, in Kathua city of Jammu division of the State of Jammu and Kashmir, once again served as an illustration of how the war of narrative is fought in our information age, through an elaborate agitprop of concerted selective projection and falsification of news. The incredibly diabolic acts alleged against the a...
The furore drummed up by mainstream media and the usual attendant rabble-rousers in the incident of the murder and alleged rape of an 8-year old tribal Bakarwal girl, in Kathua city of Jammu division of the State of Jammu and Kash...
Context
Right in the middle of busy a work day (Wednesday, Oct 21st, 2015), I received an email from a friend about an India related event happening in my neighborhood. The event titled “ Shattering the Silence: India's Authors Protest Recent Murders” - A...
An acute need for promoting Sanskrit back into academics
The year 2016 saw my fourth book The Battle for Sanskrit: Is Sanskrit Political or Sacred, Oppressive or Liberating, Dead or Alive? or TBFS in short, finally being published and releas...