13 July 2021 Prior to the Bismarck concept of nationhood, where culture and language populated ideally by a mono-ethnic people demarcated the nation state, it was rather common to see multi ethnic and multicultural in fact multi linguistic commons as a nationhood. Even if one takes the narrowest example of the British Isles as a […]
Category: Indology
12 July 2021 Right now the fancy variants of concern of the SARS CoV2 virus are getting labelled in Greek alphabet, only here too, there is extreme reluctance to label them that way, because I guess the scientists do not wish to run out of options. So we had a ‘Delta Plus’ before we have […]
29 June 2021 After what we can now see as an effort to demonstrate a clear uptick in administered vaccines per day, the renewed national roll out now fully subsidised by the Union Government is underway with the same underwhelming performance that has marked most endeavours since the beginning of 2020 when the PM promised […]
27 May 2021 It is just a coincidence that today we can also pay homage to one personality whose presence in India’s modern history is as much a symbol of the welding of the past and present, as it was of the traditional and the modern- Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Unlike most ‘brahmin’ families of today, […]
06 April 2021The Indian Scholastic system underwent a major change from whatever indigenous systems operated to the British system, which for context can be called Macaulay system. It was an effort to churn out Indians who were English in Heart and Mind, given to British Sensibilities and who would depict themselves in public life in […]
21 March 2021 While Greek sources offer no insight into any great high way cutting through the Magadha Empire midrib, they offer two clarifications. The first of these is that Indians were organised, martial and their emperor was holding his forces just ahead of the river Hyphasis, and while later day Roman commentators and compilers […]
20 March 2021 We must delineate clearly between the desire to update our understanding of history which is a genuine academic pursuit vis-à-vis revisionism, which is more like how emotions cloud human memory, where gaps of memory and actual events are distorted and filled by our imaginations. Currently I find globally two cultural stalwarts as […]
18 March 2021 Sometimes too much of a good thing can be good for nothing. What India has demonstrated is a certain set of situations where our responses were unfortunately viewed by people in India and abroad as either Western or Oriental, not characteristic Indian. Much of the efforts of scholars like Surendranath Dasgupta, the […]
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