Apr 29Member-onlyShashi Tharoor’s Never-Ending Anti-Modi Commentaries: Selling India Cheap to His Foreign NetworksShashi Tharoor is no doubt a smart man. He is also a handsome man. He is my age, and I used to be jealous, growing up, how he had already begun publishing in India’s top journals, newspapers, and magazines when he was just a teenager while I could not get…Shashi Tharoor12 min readShashi Tharoor12 min read
Apr 28Member-onlyTheir Plan to Decimate HindusThat Hindus have posed a problem for supremacist faiths and extremist ideologies is not acknowledged overtly by the faith followers and the ideologues, but their actions on the ground, their words and messages crafted for use by the media and by academics, clearly do so. …Hindus7 min readHindus7 min read
Dec 12, 2022Member-onlyThe Islamist IAMC Colludes with Christist FIACONA to Target HindusOn December 10, 2022, The Dallas Morning News published a report titled, “Groups speak out about what they see as Hindu ‘extremist group’ operating in Frisco”. The report said that “The Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations, a group whose mission is “to protect the interest of the Christian church”…12 min read12 min read
Oct 2, 2022Member-onlyBrooms Dating Back to 2000 BCE? Why Do Indian Towns and Cities Still Use Them to Clean their Streets?Every time I visit India, and my hometown of Bengaluru, the fifteen million plus megalopolis, I am struck by the sight of mostly women, using brooms made of reeds, bending from their torso down, sweeping the city’s streets. …India5 min readIndia5 min read
May 13, 2022Member-onlyHere We Go Again: The USCIRF’s Annual “International Religious Freedom” Report, and the Attack on IndiaThe United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), which should have been shut down in 2016, but was infused with funds by the Congress to continue to provide employment to mediocrities and faceless bureaucrats, offers a platform for nine politically compromised commissioners to preen and build their beltway network…Uscirf9 min readUscirf9 min read
Apr 18, 2022Member-onlyAmy Waxes Incoherent: It is the Poison in the IviesAh, yes! These days we cannot have even a moment’s respite from the world as we are constantly bombarded with the blathering, bullshitting, bamboozling, or bloviating by someone about something of which and whom they know little about. …12 min read12 min read
Jan 22, 2022Member-onlyA Sorry Nation’s Penal Dysfunction: Australia’s Treatment of a Hero AchieverNote: This is a two-part essay — with the first one a response from my son to the Djokovic saga, and the second one is mine. Sudhanva Rao As the Australian Open matches continue to be played and Novak Djokovic has officially left the continent of Australia it is best…Novak Djokovic10 min readNovak Djokovic10 min read
Jun 9, 2021Member-onlyManufacturing Evidence: Journalism in the Age of Social ActivismOn May 24, 2021, Sewa International received an email from Nitish Pahwa, a copy editor at Slate Magazine. He wrote: Hello, I’m Nitish Pahwa, a writer at Slate. I was told to contact this email for the purposes of my inquiry. I’m working on a piece about fundraisers being held…Sewa International12 min readSewa International12 min read
Jun 2, 2021Member-onlyIrony Dies, Hypocrisy Thrives: A Fundamentalist Baptist Becomes Preacher to the SecularistsA fundamentalist Baptist, with a name and a face that could be straight out of a list of “Hitler Youth,” a provocateur who is said to be behind the vandalizing and destruction of a Mahatma Gandhi statue in Davis, California, and a man accused of colluding with Khalistani terrorists went…Bhajan Singh Bhinder6 min readBhajan Singh Bhinder6 min read
May 26, 2021Member-onlyThe Little Engine That Can: A Hindu Faith-based Organization in the US Responds to the COVID Surge in IndiaThey advise us to not let a crisis go to waste just as they point out that it is in crises that leaders emerge, that it is in demanding times that organizations, otherwise off the media radar, can rise to the challenge and prove their real worth. So it is…Sewa International10 min readSewa International10 min read
