Vishal Ganesan
Attorney. Interested in diaspora culture and politics, dharma, and NBA hoops. I also curate @HindooHistory on Instagram and Twitter
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I haven't watched this, but the fact that anti-Modi Indian leftists are hitching their wagon to Jack Straw-- the same guy who lied about Iraqi WMDs, which directly led to the death...
Was reflecting on the vapidity of the #RRR critiques and came across this passage from Fanon. RRR is absolutely a nationalist movie, but the idea that it is "hindutva" aligned b/c...
Interesting article. The biggest mistake that western critics of hindutva make is assuming that it's a top-down project. IMO this dramatically overstates the influence of Savarkar'...
This @guerinemily piece is a great example of how American prejudice and paranoia about "hindoo" influence that we see in the early 20th century (with specific regard to the increa...
The BJP was originally seen as purely an urban party, but its success in UPโ Indiaโs largest stateโ has been driven by rural and โrurbanโ voters. According to Mehta, the BJP โhas b...
I've long since given up trying to understand the incomprehensible drivel published by south asianists. It's far more interesting to try and understand their psychological position...
This passage from Sri Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita is IMO offers a compelling heuristic for approaching dharmic scripture, and provides a stark contrast to how we tend to think o...
"People love griping about Twitter, but in doing so they take for granted everything that it has offered in terms of making public discourse accessible to a broader range of people...
That the Pakistani army specifically targeted Hindus during the Bangladeshi Liberation War of 1971 is amply documented (read Gary Bass's "Blood Telegram"). But of course, b/c this...
Predictably shoddy reporting, but instructive. These conspiratorial "global hindutva" pieces all make the same error: b/c of a conflation of "hindutva" with a broader phenomenon of...
โWhat seems to have begun in Indian politics is a conflict over intelligibility, a writing of the political world that is more fundamental than traditional ideological disputesโ ht...
This is the same academic who just hosted Rahul Gandhi at Cambridge, an individual who has never won a meaningful election in his life, and yet is still seen as a PM in waiting bec...