9 July 2024 What should we call a movement that is reclaiming the human narrative and perspective from what has been largely a racist, religious, revisionist project spurred by imperialism and industrialisation of Western origin? How should we toast an author like William Dalrymple who is writing and talking about the fiction our modern history […]
Tag: Historical Revisionism
20 September 2022 One needs to look at history as a precedent and not as a font for hubris. Yet the casual views the two as alternatives of each, while the causal looks for the danger signs where from precedence one stumbles into hubris. The nature of the human is such that no individual who […]
6 April 2022 Viktor Orban won a record landslide in the election results of 3 April 2022 with over 53% of the popular vote as his fourth straight electoral triumph in Hungary. The scale of his victory is what unnerves liberal left and votaries for an inclusive Hungary, for Orban was known to bait immigrants […]
29 March 2022 The larger contours of this current conflict lie in what is simply an ‘understanding of history’. If the Russians view Ukraine as their ‘motherlode’ of culture, as once an integral part of Russia with Odessa rivalling St Petersburg, and the Russian Naval Fleet itself headquartered for centuries at Sevestapol and calling itself […]
13 August 2021 There was a time, when apparently, the first instance of outsourcing was when the White Man came to tame the wilderness and the wild, cultivate culture amongst those who remained till then beyond the pale of culture, in lands that were peopled by what now modern correctness terms as ‘First Nations’. When […]
11 August 2021 When President Trump’s account was suspended by Twitter, many lustily cheered, for the excesses of a false narrative that had such follower-ship needed taking down was the logic. Many argued, however that Twitter had no ombudsman, there was no natural justice in how the measure was undertaken, including a clearly one sided […]
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 […]
10 March 2021 I was not surprised to hear that Piers Morgan was getting the boot after his comments disparaging Meghan Markle on ITV’s morning show. I have often felt that if television and print media needed one boot right now, it is to boot out Mr Rupert Murdoch, to banish this evil person from […]
07 March 2021 If one did see way back at the beginning of this millennium a potential for the US to seek partnerships with India as a strategic necessity to counterbalance China, what the decades after that has shown is how an erstwhile ally at the time of World Wars, of the Western Compact, Russia, […]
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11 October 2020 It can be dismissed as the opinion of a matinee idol in an arena where he doesn’t have expertise. https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/telugu/2020/oct/10/vijay-deverakonda-picks-dictatorship-over-democracy-saysall-people-not-worthy-of-voting-right-2208438.html Yet the man who has a roll call of characters like Deverakonda does, with the kind of ability to emote raw emotions as he did, I am actually of the view that […]
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