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What happened in Ayodhya?

By hipkapi April 3, 2024 Balagangadhara, published, swarjyamag

A three-part series by SN Balagangadhara What happened in Ayodhya: a pran prathistha, a consecration, or something else? What happened in Ayodhya: Mehta’s heroics, Varshney’s warning, and Palshikar’s guilt What…

Balagangadhara’s interview with Swarajya

By hipkapi December 1, 2022 Balagangadhara, published, swarjyamag

Part I, Part II, Part III , Part IV (Appeared on 04/13/2022 through 04/15/2022) S.N. Balagangadhara, emeritus professor at Ghent University, Belgium, has spent more than 40 years studying the…

Colonial Consciousness and Servitude

By hipkapi October 26, 2022 Balagangadhara, colonial consciousness, colonialism, Islam, published, secularization, swarjyamag

[ Published on swarjyamag Aug 26, 2022] Let me recollect the question we agreed upon: how does the combined phrase (colonial mindset and servitude) make sense within the framework of…

How about speaking the truth about reservations?

By hipkapi October 14, 2015 Balagangadhara, experience, interests, published, reservations, swarjyamag

[Published on Swarajya magazine Oct 14, 2015] What happens to the future of Indian intellectual scene when most of projects driven by its intelligentsia propagate perverted truths for self-seeking purposes? “Satyam Vada,…