What can India offer?
[Published on outlookindia, July 05, 2007] Today, India has become a global player of significant political and economical impact. Europe and India are facing each other as equal partners in…
Read moreIndian View from Outside: Quotas, Rational & Moral?
[Originally appeared in New Indian Express Sep 11, 2015] Read Jakob de Roover’s piece on reservations on dailyon.in & on swarjyamag. From the perspective of constitution, constitution debates, check https://www.academia.edu/16478230/Caste-based_reservation_and_social_justice_in_India The problem…
Read moreDark Hour of Secularism: Hindu Fundamentalism and Colonial Liberalism in India
[Appeared in Making sense of the Secular: Critical perspecitves from Europe to Asia (Ed. Ranjan Ghosh), Routledge, 2013, pp 111-130] The relation between religion and politics remains one of the…
Read moreUS Commission for International Christian Freedom
[Originally appeared on firstpost: http://www.firstpost.com/world/uncirf-hypocrisy-protestant-worldview-not-religious-freedom-2237900.html ] The annual reports of the US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) have long irked politicians and citizens from countries placed on its ‘watch…
Read moreRape of a Country — Jakob de Roover
[Appeared on niticentral.com ] Rape of a Country Jakob De Roover Imagine. A filmmaker travels to Belgium because she has heard about the pedophilia scandals in the country. She directs a…
Read moreThe Magic of ‘Radicalization’?
[Appeared in neweurope.eu ] After the Paris attacks came the questions: Is this violence caused by Islam or unrelated to religion? Are the perpetrators believers or madmen? Do they represent…
Read moreCurrent state of Scholarship about India: outlook articles
Jakob de Roover’s Untangling the knot Sufiya Pathan’s No Alternative Jakob’s Disturbing Story Jakob’s How Free are We? Jakob’s The Indian Jews Balagangadhara’s What can India offer?
Read moreTranslation, Interpretation and Culture: On the disingenuity of a comparative theology
[Published: Canadian Social Science 10(5) 39-47, 2014] Check Balu’s paper on comparative theology, and in particular Francis Clooney’s: Translation, interpretration and culture: on the disingenuity of a comparative theology
Read moreThe Secular State and Religious Conflict: Liberal Neutrality and the Indian Case of Pluralism
Editor’s Note: This article appeared in the Journal of Political Philosophy. Authored by SN Balagangadhara and Jakob De Roover. For an alternative research programme (paradigm) for studying India, Indian culture…
Read moreHow to speak for the Indian traditions: an agenda for the future–SN Balagangadhara
Editor’s note: This article appeared in the Journal of American Academy of Religion Abstract The paper attempts a contrast between the process and the structure of the Christian and the…
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