Sandeep Balakrishna

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Getting Jacked

Getting Jacked

Twitter Inc cofounder and CEO Jack Dorsey visited India. And got Jacked. There’s just no other way to say this but it appears that Jack Dorsey seems dense or incompetent or both. For a techie and CEO of one of the world’s most successful social media platforms operating

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The Sacred Bonds that Bind Bharatavarsha

The Sacred Bonds that Bind Bharatavarsha

In an earlier essay, I had remarked that the only way to “understand” Santana Dharma is to live it. What had once been akin to breathing to Hindus has now become a thing to “understand.” Let it also be said that you cannot “learn” Hinduism by reading any number of

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The Politics of T M Krishna: A Ready Reckoner

The Politics of T M Krishna: A Ready Reckoner

One of the immoral Kannada proverbs goes thus: ಅನ್ನ ಹಳಸಿತ್ತು ನಾಯಿ ಹಸಿದಿತ್ತು (The food had rotted, the dog was hungry). This proverb pretty much accurately characterises the musical urban naxal, T M Krishna who has finally found refuge in the tainted arms of

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The Ayodhya Dipotsava Diaries: An Introduction

The Ayodhya Dipotsava Diaries: An Introduction

Preface Nothing prepares you for Ayodhya. Nothing. Not even when you go there bearing in mind such lofty slokas as अयोध्या मथुरा माया काशी कान्ची अवन्तिकापुरी द्वारावती चैव सप्तैता मोक्षदायि

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It is Time to Establish a National Institute of Liberal Pathology

It is Time to Establish a National Institute of Liberal Pathology

If you’re a Hindu and you have a grown-up daughter, make sure that she doesn’t work in the degeneracy-infested, rootless, soulless Indian English media, especially, the Lutyens variant. If she does, she’ll emerge dumber than what she was before she went in. Not only that,

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Spiritual Freedom and the Sacred Geography of Bharata

Spiritual Freedom and the Sacred Geography of Bharata

The concept of Purusharthas is one of the most singular and unique contributions to world culture,  civilisation and human living. This is perhaps one of the best models for both a personal code of conduct for leading one’s life and an exploration of the much-touted western notion of

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The Cultural Weakening of India and the Hindu Civilisational Continuum

The Cultural Weakening of India and the Hindu Civilisational Continuum

What is common to the two avoidable events that occurred recently, viz, the so-called #MeToo dog-and-pony show, and second, the pushback against and persecution of the lakhs of Sabarimala protestors? In a line, the common factor in both is the near-total erosion of the identity of

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It’s Nearly Five Hundred Years: Sri Ramachandra is Awaiting his Return to his Own Home

It’s Nearly Five Hundred Years: Sri Ramachandra is Awaiting his Return to his Own Home

IF there’s one person who has his finger on the pulse of Hindu pusillanimity, inertia and self-imposed helplessness with deadly accuracy, it is Sri Sri Asaduddin Owaisi. Here’s what he said in the wake of the Supreme Court’s latest pronouncement on the Ayodhya case. Asaduddin Owaisi,

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Enforcement Directorate Raid on Amnesty International is Welcome. But not Enough

Enforcement Directorate Raid on Amnesty International is Welcome. But not Enough

The breaking news of the Enforcement Directorate’s raid on Amnesty International’s office in Bangalore should gladden the heart of every Indian who loves his country. Amnesty International is among the covert breaking India forces and its list of sins committed in the garb of human rights is as

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The Last Chance for Hindus: Plea for a Contemporary Sanatana Renaissance

The Last Chance for Hindus: Plea for a Contemporary Sanatana Renaissance

This tumultuous century provides an opportunity for comprehensive decolonisation of the Hindu cultural psyche

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