Category Archives: COURAGE

For nearly 700 years, India witnessed the reign of various Muslim dynasties — from the Delhi Sultanate to the powerful Mughal Empire. During all those centuries, Hindus remained the demographic majority. They practiced their faith, preserved their culture, and sustained their traditions through generations, despite being ruled by Muslim monarchs. Fast forward to modern India.Continue reading “When the Majority Feels Like a Minority”

The Government of India recently increased the Mid-Day Meal budget for school children. As per the 2025–26 budget, the per-child allocation now stands at ₹6.78 for primary students and ₹10.17 for upper primary students. The announcement, wrapped in the usual fanfare of welfare triumph, claims to address malnutrition and inflation together — as if bothContinue reading “Will Shri Ram Also Provide the Missing Nutrition?”

There’s something almost comical about watching the RSS and BJP try to culturally cosplay their way into Tamil Nadu. It’s like watching a bad stage performance where the actors keep changing costumes hoping one will get a round of applause. Spoiler alert: it never does. They tried to sell us Shri Ram. It didn’t work.Continue reading “You Can’t Tamilise Your Way Into Tamil Nadu”

Every few years, especially during exam results or job recruitment seasons, the same outrage resurfaces across urban India — “Why should caste-based reservation exist? Why should merit suffer?” But let’s take a moment to ask — what is this “merit” everyone is so protective of? And more importantly, where does it begin? The Merit Mirage A child born inContinue reading “If Indians Hate Caste-Based Reservation, Let Every Indian Child Study in a Government School”

Languages don’t die easily. They fade when people stop speaking them, when their relevance erodes, or when another language takes over as the dominant mode of communication. But Sanskrit, once one of the most refined and revered languages of human civilisation, didn’t die a natural death. It was smothered—by the very people who once claimed it asContinue reading “The Death of Sanskrit: A Language Smothered by Privilege”

For many today, the word “education” evokes images of degrees, institutions, and elite access. But if we rewind to pre-colonial India, we find a rich and complex educational tapestry — one that challenges modern assumptions about access, inclusion, and caste. Contrary to popular belief, ancient India did not have a single, monolithic system of education.Continue reading “A Forgotten Legacy: India’s Diverse and Inclusive Education Systems Before Colonial Rule”

If India ever ends up with just one religion, one God, one language, one ration card, and one election — the only ones left to rule will be the RSS and the BJP. And when that day comes, it will no longer be a democracy. It will be a cultural dictatorship in the guise ofContinue reading “One Nation, One Religion, One Ruler — Is That Democracy?”

For over a century, the question of whether Tamil is older than Sanskrit has sparked controversy, not because of academic uncertainty, but because of what the answer threatens to dismantle. Beneath the linguistic debate lies a deeper struggle — one between caste and equality, between centralised power and cultural decentralisation, between North India’s historical dominanceContinue reading “Why the North Cannot Accept That Tamil Is Older Than Sanskrit”

In my humble opinion, India’s backward castes should align themselves with Indian Muslims and Christians rather than with the upper castes. This might sound politically incorrect to some, but let’s call a spade a spade. The brutal truth is: the oppression and humiliation faced by the backward castes came overwhelmingly from the hands of upper-casteContinue reading “Why Backward Castes Should Align With Muslims and Christians, Not Upper Castes”

Just imagine if what happened in Dharmasthala had taken place in a place of worship belonging to another religion. Would the media have remained this quiet? Would the politicians have kept such a calculated silence? Would social media influencers have brushed it under the carpet so effortlessly? Let’s not pretend we don’t know the answer.Continue reading “What If Dharmasthala Had Been a Mosque or a Church?”