Dhanya Rajdendran is discussing investigative journalism on an online panel
Somehow she forgot to talk about the Dharmasthala case as an example of best investigative journalism
Any idea why?
About twenty years ago, at our home in Palghar, we had a visiting pastor from Kerala join us for lunch. My dad, who was active in the local Malayalee association had invited him as a guest.
The meal went well enough.
Soon, the conversation drifted towards religion. Our modest pooja corner -- a small shelf with a murti of Krishna Ji and framed photos of Shiv Ji and Lakshmi Devi -- caught his attention.
He smiled (almost with ridicule), and then asked why we “needed so many gods.” It wasn’t really a question; it was an opening. What began as curiosity quickly turned into a sermon — a calm, confident dismissal of everything we believed in. In a matter of minutes, he explained how our faith was misguided, our rituals unnecessary, and our gods, mere illusions.
What stayed with me wasn’t the disagreement itself, but the ease with which he spoke.
He had just eaten our food, which my mom served with love.
He was inside our home, in our living room, feeling perfectly comfortable ridiculing the very faith of his hosts.
That was the day I learnt that fanaticism doesn’t always look fierce. Sometimes it just smiles at you from across the table.
This is not unique to India or Hindi. Many missionaries created translation dictionaries, including Robert Morrison (for Chinese), William Carey (for Indian languages like Sanskrit, Hindi, and Bengali). These works served as essential linguistic tools for their missionary work, enabling the translation of religious texts and promoting the spread of knowledge.
Fancesca Orsini's work is NOT comparable. She is a historian of langauge.
The failure of Indian education/scholarship both on the left and right is the failure to create a discourse that is truly "de-colonial" in its framing of the study of Indian society, history and politics.
For example, the continued use of phrases like facist vs progressive to describe political parties in contemporary India are not only usless categories. but offer little insight into the way politics of the country is organized.
#WATCH | MP | Indore Police have arrested the accused, Aqueel, in connection with the alleged molestation of two members of the Australian women's cricket team on 23rd October
(Source: Indore Police)
Irrespective of what FBI finds on Tellis, we Indians should be clear that he was not a “scholar” but a deep state asset. The investigation is about which deep state - US or China.
There is a line between between fact and fiction and
@RahulGandhi has snorted it. Rather fitting that he has done so in Columbia.
Exposing the industrial scale lies of Rahul Gandhi, on @ndtv with @ShivAroor:
2012 :: UPA govt unleashing water cannon and lathi charge on Nirbhaya protesters in Delhi at the peak of winter in December.
Today, some Congress bootlickers are telling us that the Manmohan Singh Govt allowed protesters to protest.
🚨 Ex-Home Minister P. Chidambaram admits — after 26/11, the UPA govt didn’t strike Pakistan because the US told India NOT to RETALIATE and MEA opposed ACTION.
— Yet today Congress dares to call Operation Sindoor a “SURRENDER”?
Two cartoon by @satishacharya
TVK Stampede and Bengaluru RCB Stampede
No mention of state govt or CM of both states, In Kumbh stampede he did many cartoon mocking Yogi.
Red herring👇. PLAF literally flew single engine aircraft w/40 hr MTBF, still flies single engines w/400 hr MTBF. IAF hungrily imported Mig23 that had engine issues frm day 1. Mig29 were hangar queens for 2 decades. IAF wants Indian taxpayer to fund US level qty @ French prices..
JUST IN - U.S. military officials are preparing options to target drug traffickers on Venezuelan soil, with potential strikes to occur within weeks — NBC
#BREAKING on @NDTV: 4 youth sent to Police Custody in the Leh violence case after they surrendered in court. The arrested 4 include Two Councillors who surrendered including Stanzin Tsepag & Smanla Dorjee Norboo. All of the surrendered say they are innocent but are named in FIR.
🚨 PM Modi’s BIG ATTACK on Congress
“In Himachal, Congress didn’t cut GST on cement, instead added their own tax.”
“Beware — Congress & allies only LOOT people.”
#WATCH | Delhi | BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi says, "I also want to leave a note for all of you. Mr Rahul Gandhi has gone abroad again. As usual, news of his meetings with suspicious individuals may emerge after this. All of you, be prepared. And then, some anti-India statement will surely emerge from somewhere, from here, from there, from the front door or the back door, from a window or a 'Roshandaan'. So, all of you, keep a close eye on this. Thank you!..."