Insights, analysis and commentary mostly on current happenings in India and occasionally geopolitics
There has been a flurry of statements in public discourse recently about an alleged north versus south India divide. When we peel off the layers, at the core, we find that it is nothing but a variant of the familiar anti-Hindu narrative.
In the concluding episode we examine some fundamental contrasts with the Western framework of Indology and offer a few guides to decolonise the Hindu psyche.
There is a fundamental difference between the Hindu System of Philosophical Inquiry and the post-Christian intellectual milieu of the West. Confounding the two has been one of the greatest obstacles to decolonising the contemporary Hindu psyche.
A survey of the history and consequences of Western intellectualism and how its blind adoption by the Indian power elite after independence derailed the trajectory of decolonisation that had begun during the New Indian Renaissance.
This episode fleshes out the training, character and the legacy of the luminaries of the New Indian Renaissance. They shaped their era almost from the scratch, having no past masters to help and guide their work.
A little-studied period of recent Indian history is the Golden Age of the New Indian Renaissance spanning the mid 19th to the mid 20th century. The jaw-dropping contribution of this period to Hindu decolonisation is a sure shot guide for our own time.
Unlike Muslim regimes, the British consciously destroyed traditional Hindu institutions as a result of which today's Hindu society has lost access to its own societal past.
Decolonisation is diagnosis, scholarship, process and a civilizational continuum and not a mere "goal" to be achieved
The Western model of ideological universalism of Left and Right has broken down on its own home turf. India must consciously reject it and reshape her destiny using homespun models through decolonisation.
The sorry state of language education at the primary level is the consequence of designing textbooks based on political ideologies, caste, religion and other harmful factors. Recovering the foundations of our educational system will help mitigate these ills.