By tapping into our silent emotional needs and struggles as a commercial opportunity, untrained and often unhelpful social media influencers are adding to our mental health burden. Noushaba Nas writes about the possible dangers of a recent trend on social...
The third part of V.A. Mohamad Ashrof’s review of Early Indians by Tony Joseph offers a rigorous deconstruction of the Hindutva concepts of pithrubhumi (fatherland) and punyabhumi (holy land) through the lens of modern genetics, archaeology, and linguistics. By tracing...
This article, the second in a series reviewing Tony Joseph’s Early Indians, explores how cutting-edge genetic research, particularly ancient DNA studies, breaks the ideological deadlock surrounding India’s origins. It explains how population genetics provides clear evidence for multiple waves of...
Book review of Tony Joseph's Early Indians: A Scientific Refutation of Hindutva concepts of Pithrubhumi and Punyabhumi is a series of articles by V.A. Mohamad Ashrof that offers a comprehensive refutation of the pitrubhumi and punyabhumi concepts through a hermeneutical...
By juxtaposing Tagore’s elitist idealism with the emancipatory traditions of thinkers like Jyotirao Phule, B.R. Ambedkar, Ayodhidasa, Periyar, and Sahodaran Ayyappan, Dr. Radhakrishnan Ilayidath’s article explores a radical counter-narrative of fraternal nationalism rooted in anti-caste ethics, Buddhist humanism, and labor-centered...
One of the most notable critical studies on nationalism in Malayalam scholarship is E. Ratheesh’s 2022 thesis, "Indian Cultural Nationalism and Malayalam Criticism: An Inquiry Based on Selected Texts". The thesis was submitted under the guidance of Praseetha P. at...
Despite a witness providing skeletal remains and detailed testimony on crimes he says were orchestrated by individuals linked to the powerful temple administration, authorities have delayed action, and much of the national and state media and political establishment remains shamefully...
Why does the Euro-American model remain a promised land even for those holding contradictory ideologies? Why do new atheists, a section of Dalit intellectuals, Hindutva nationalists, and communists alike-despite divergent worldviews-end up imitating it, treating the West as an ideal?...
Bela Bhatia is a writer, researcher, and human rights lawyer practicing in the district courts of Bastar division, Chhattisgarh. She holds a doctorate from Cambridge University for her research on the Naxalite movement in central Bihar and has long studied...
Successive Left and Right governments in Kerala have treated the tribal land issue as nothing more than a welfare matter. The broader public, too, has failed to grasp the Constitutional promise of self-governance for Adivasi communities. Key initiatives like the...
