Both Joseph Stalin and Hitler were inhuman dictators. Millions perished under their rule. The regimes of both were antisemitic. But there was a difference. Hitler’s Antisemitism was naked and obscene. The antisemitism of Stalin however was couched and camouflaged in Marxist jargon. The Jews were not called Jews directly as the Nazis did. But they…
As this reviewer feared, a section of the ‘right-wing’ has begun to protest against the ‘bedroom’ scene in the movie Oppenheimer. In this scene, a Marxist psychiatrist (a contradiction in terms actually) with a Jungian perspective, attempts to impress upon Oppenheimer, the power of an atom bomb. To do so, she asks him to read…
Dharma Yoga Volume-I: Beliefs And Practices In Hinduism. Ravi Swaminathan and Ananth. Rupa & Co. Pages 352. Rs 496. Creating a systematised, cartographic knowledge guide for Hindu Dharma is like creating a guide map for a tropical rain forest. It is tough. It is challenging, and it can almost never be complete. Gardens can have…