By Sunil Kumar Chettur Sankaran Nair, a Keralite from a wealthy family in Pallakad district on the Malabar coast, was a distinguished Indian lawyer, nationalist and statesman. He became the youngest president of the Indian National Congress in its nascent years. In 1912, he was knighted by the British crown. At the time of the
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar Save Hinduism from Hindutva is Arun Shourie’s earnest plea. Hinduism is the inner search, Hindutva is the means for social control and state domination. Nothing new under the sun. Heard this a million times from the vacuous opposition and a Wog media that seeks Western validation all the time. What a volte
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar In man there is the inalienable impulse of Nature towards self-realisation, no struggle of the intellect to limit the action of our capacities within a determined area can for ever prevail.- Sri Aurobindo Poetry according to some is a window to the soul. For others like Shelley, poets are the unacknowledged
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar Wonderful, eloquent and comprehensive work by Arundhathi Subramaniam. Liked her response to my questions and the appreciation displayed, which prompted me to explore more of her work. Glad that I read this. Profound in places, it has enhanced my understanding of the sacred feminine through different perspectives. My only gripe with
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar For east is east and west is west, and is the twain inverted? The brown man’s burden in the 21st century is that the Gungadin is now a wog and has inverted the gaze under the benevolent tutelage of the Indologist, the omnipresent and culturally dominant Western media or its pliable minions.
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar Very interesting question. Intellectuals wield a lot of influence over society because of the power of their ideas. The more original and the more insightful the better. The staying power of intellectual ideas is primarily due to their memorability and applicability in my opinion. Shaw for example was known for his acerbic
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar Although I personally dislike the Con’Man’gress and its role in India’s stagnation, creating a template of ‘sycophancy’ and appeasement in the outward veneer of a mirage of so-called secularism, this biography is insightful when it comes to revealing the character of one of the prime movers and shakers in the republic’s
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar Shri Sandeep Balakrishna once again at his erudite and hard-hitting best. A warrior for dharma, he exposes the shallowness of Marxist and Leftist thought and the Nehruvian cabal that dominated the intellectual mindscape, policies and systematic deracination of the Indian mind since independence. He emphasises that decolonisation involves all-encompassing study and scholarship
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar In the Rajdhani, the ‘so-called’ graveyard of empires. The Puranic Indraprastha or Dillika. Received an invite to a lecture on a fascinating topic by a research scholar Mohsin Ali on ‘Dara Shikoh and the Yoga Vasishta’. Dr. Ravi Mishra, the director of the PMML talked about the long history of translations
Read More1. What was your greatest learning while researching your story ? As I have always been fascinated by history and how the acts of the few impact a vast multitude, writing and researching this story was the opportunity to explore a brave new world through the eyes of a scholarly protagonist – a Tamilian lady
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