Sandeep Balakrishna

ARTICLES

Nawab Nehru Pumps Patronage for the IPWA

Nawab Nehru Pumps Patronage for the IPWA

How Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's Patronage for the All India Progressive Writers' Association led to a systematic takeover of all cultural institutions

How the All India Progressive Writers' Association was Used as a Communist Vehicle to Bulldoze Indian Literature

How the All India Progressive Writers' Association was Used as a Communist Vehicle to Bulldoze Indian Literature

Origins of The All India Progressive Writers' Association, an organ of the Communist Party of India that invaded the Indian literary space in the 1930s and inflicted enormous damage

Governmentalizing Indian Education and Creating Generations of Cultural Pariahs

Governmentalizing Indian Education and Creating Generations of Cultural Pariahs

Ananda Coomaraswamy's farsighted and incisive observations of the ruin caused by British colonial education system

What the Masters Said: Rescue Indian Education Before it is too Late

What the Masters Said: Rescue Indian Education Before it is too Late

The first of a two-part series delineating the wisdom, diagnosis and solutions that our past masters and savants like Swami Vivekananda, Ananda Coomaraswamy and R.K. Mookerji offered about the urgent problem of education in India

The Story of Sthambheshwara: May the Feet of the Temple's Protector be on my Head

The Story of Sthambheshwara: May the Feet of the Temple's Protector be on my Head

An essay narrating the brief history of the obscure Sthambeshwara Temple, a pioneering marvel of Pallava architecture predating Mahabalipuram.

From Philosophy to Faeces: Origins of the Leftist Infiltration and Takeover of the Indian Cultural Space

From Philosophy to Faeces: Origins of the Leftist Infiltration and Takeover of the Indian Cultural Space

This essay traces the manner in which the Communists systematically infiltrated the Cultural spaces of India to achieve a political goal

A Short History of the Premeditated Leftist Slaughter of the Indian Literary and Aesthetic 
Tradition

A Short History of the Premeditated Leftist Slaughter of the Indian Literary and Aesthetic Tradition

The first part of a series documenting the brief history of the calculated destruction of the two-millenia-old tradition of Indian literary and aesthetic tradition and discipline

The Dravidian Lemuria Fantasy as History and the Invention of Kumarikandam as Geography

The Dravidian Lemuria Fantasy as History and the Invention of Kumarikandam as Geography

How the Dravidianists invented a non-existent Kumarikandam and politicised both history and geography for political purposes

The Fragrant History of the World of Ancient Indian Perfumes

The Fragrant History of the World of Ancient Indian Perfumes

A brief history of the magnificent world of ancient Indian perfumes and cosmetics lost in time. India was the world leader in the perfume industry for more than five hundred years.

The Fascinating History of Flags in Ancient India

The Fascinating History of Flags in Ancient India

A bird's eye view of the fascinating and extraordinary history of flags and emblems in ancient India.