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Meet the Banyan tree, below which, as per legend, Krishna narrated Bhagvad Gita to Arjuna

Surya Sarathi Roy - October 20, 2020

(This is second piece a long series on the epic Mahabharata, marking legends about the venue which exist to this day, timeless in glory...

Attn. Faye D’ Souza: for a lesser communal tweet, a star chef was sacked in Dubai

Ashish Shukla - January 5, 2019

This is a piece about a cartoon and an anchor. Both are interchangeable: a cartoon could be an anchor; an anchor could be a...

Indian English Media is anti-Hindu

Newsbred Staff - January 2, 2019

The Puranic story of Raktabijasura is one of my all-time favourites. Very briefly, Raktabijasura is a Rakshasa, a demon who is endowed with a boon that he thinks will...

Rahul Gandhi now leaves Indian Muslims in lurch

Ashish Shukla - October 31, 2018

If I was an Indian Muslim, I would have a whole lot of questions today and certainly no answers. So far, I believed in the...

How the propaganda against RSS falls flat on its face

Ashish Shukla - August 11, 2018

Indian Express has two voices which do not like RSS or BJP or Hindu resurgence in India. You scroll down articles of either Christophe Jaffrelot or Ashutosh...

Hindus killed in Afghanistan: Try telling it to Indian Express

Ashish Shukla - July 2, 2018

Jalalabad in Afghanistan suffered a horrific bomb attack on Sunday. Out of the 19 killed, 17 were Sikhs and Hindus. All mainstream English dailies...

Irony died a million deaths in Tharoor’s column

Ashish Shukla - June 2, 2018

Shashi Tharoor’s edit piece in Indian Express on Saturday reminded me of my probation days in journalism with the Times of India in the 80s. My...

Modi could lose Hindu votes and here’s why!

Ashish Shukla - December 22, 2017

In an old Bollywood flick which starred my favourite actor Dilip Kumar, there’s a scene towards the end: Shankar (Dilip Kumar), hitherto penniless but...

Mr Sibal, you ain’t fooling anyone!

Ashish Shukla - May 2, 2017

Kapil Sibal, former telecom minister in the UPA government, in an Oped article in Times of India (May 2, 2017) today, has urged “Asli Hindus”...

India’s “Second Independence”: the real deal

Ashish Shukla - December 23, 2016

We are entering into a stretch of political landscape which could simply be termed as the “Second Independence” of India in coming years. The BJP...

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