Marathas Did Not Care About Hindus, Mughals Did Not Care About Muslims – History Is More Nuanced Than These Stupid Binaries

It took the British around 100 years to fully conquer India. And by India, I mean British India consisting of Myanmar, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and present-day India. And in this, they were helped and aided by all sorts of Indian kingdoms and people. Rajputs and Marathas were major forces that helped the British conquer the […]

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My Friend Does Not Want Rekhta To Call Lord Ram as Imam-E-Hind. I Disagree.

A close friend of mine recently posted the following in his story. Do you notice anything odd, does anything trigger you? See if this was coming from a troll on the internet or that nutcase who spews venom every hour on Twitter, I would just ignore it and scroll to the next tweet. This human […]

Take Your Headscarf Off, Show Us Your Hair and Get Your Education – Hindus to Hijab-Wearing Muslim Girls

From what I know and can remember Muslim girls in school (not all but some of them) have been wearing hijab (or headscarf) for ages now. It was just another piece of clothing that never bothered us, to the point that we never even noticed its existence. I even know of girls and even teachers […]

India: This Is Not How You Fight A Pandemic

There are 6,653 cases of COVID-19 in India as of 9 April 11:45 PM. And this is despite India testing the least. And our government is broadcasting these comparative low numbers as some sort of success. Think of this. If India had not tested anyone at all then India would have had zero SARS-CoV-2 positive […]

End Of Innocence

The plant that we so diligently watered and cared for has grown into a big banyan; full of flowers and fruits. Own it now. 53 people have lost their lives in the Delhi riots. You have heard this already. But do you see the problem here? Riot? Was it really a riot? Is it a riot […]

On Kashmir, India Went Back on Its Constitutional Promise Showing It Can Now ‘Legally’ Do Anything Given Its Brute Majority

Yesterday, Indian Parliament headed by BJP which enjoys brute majority declared Article 370 which gave Kashmir special status in Indian union revoked, it bifurcated the Jammu and Kashmir state into two parts, and it also declared both the parts as Union Territories. The reason why they did this is one part of a debatable story; […]

How Riots Happen and What Ordinary Citizens Could Do To Stop Them

India is a diverse nation, our strength lies in our unity or so are we told since school but what we are not taught is how this very diversity is time and again exploited by certain elements to sow seeds of hate in the society we live in. Just last week we saw this happening […]

Those Who Are Asking Khan-Market-Gang To Shut Up, Don’t Understand Why They Speak Out In The First Place

We are against terrorism. Aren’t we? I don’t remember anyone defending Ajmal Kasab. Or for instance Masood Azhar. But now I doubt we were against terrorism then or are now with respect to Azhar for instance. We have just elected ‘Sadhvi’ Pragya Singh Thakur, an accused awaiting trial in the 2008 Malegaon bombings with astounding […]

Win or Lose, Here Are Few Things Rahul Gandhi Must Do Post Elections To Stay Relevant

Before I even start, I must just warn you of the unprecedented propaganda that was and is done to demean and to make fun of Rahul in public eye to an extent where no commentator starts pieces like this with, you see, I don’t think Rahul is the leader we deserve but blah blah. Certainly, […]