Month: April 2017

Two years have passed since the brutal murder of Comrade Panasare and 42 months after killing Dr. Dabholkar. The two independent agencies involved in the investigation, viz, CBI of Central

The Kolhapur police team investigating the murder of rationalist Govind Pansare has reportedly questioned Dr Jayant Athavale, the founder of Sanatan Sanstha, in a major development in the case. The

It is distractions galore in the Sanatan Sanstha-Pansare murder case, with the organisation now objecting the appointment of Shivajirao Rane as the special public prosecutor (SPP) by calling it “illegal”.

(The following was delivered as the commencement address at the California Institute of Technology, on Friday, June 10th 2016 ). If this place has done its joband I suspect it

Now that the dust has settled on Marina beach, where young protesters had camped to demand that the ban on jallikattua traditional sport of bull jostlingbe lifted, lets discuss the

Govind Pansare was not among the nationally well known faces of the Communist Party of India (CPI), even though it was his political home for over six decades. Tragically, it

Like Manoj and other Indian rationalists, I have often been chided by fellow Indians fairly mainstream, middle-class bhadralok, most of them for picking on Hinduism. I am asked if I

I once asked my students at Jindal Global University about Mahatma Gandhis relevance in todays India. Gandhi is only a name and an image in India today, they commented coldly,

With a self-proclaimed Ambedkar bhakt at the helm of the government, the Dalits might have expected a modicum of directional change in policies towards them. Instead, the two years of

If you follow the literature of scientific research in medicine, you may have raised your eyebrows at the list of authors credited in an article that came out in the

Unless we are very, very careful, wrote psychologist-turned-artist Anne Truitt in contemplating compassion and the cure for our chronic self-righteousness, we doom each other by holding onto images of one

Debate around the words Hindu, Hinduism, Hindutva is not new. Recently the assertion by Mohan Bhagwat, the Sarsanghchalk (Supreme Dictator) of RSS that everyone living in India is Hindu and

During my adult life I have been doing my best to see a ghost, or even feel the presence of a ghostly being; but, apart from hearing about other peoples

Dear Shri Nanavati, Let me at the outset wish you a very happy new year 2017, Now about the issue of T&A forwarded by you. I was quite disappointed by