Tag Archives: Hindutva

Developing Tamil Nadu

Posted on February 3, 2026 by VM

“If the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) comes to power, it will ruin the developed State of Tamil Nadu” — Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said this in his address to a local conference organised by the Indian Union Muslim … Continue reading →

Posted in Op-eds | Tagged Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, economic development, Hindutva, MK Stalin, populism, State Pollution Control Boards, Tamil Nadu, Vengaivayal | Leave a comment

Anonymity in journalism and a conflict of ethics

Posted on April 12, 2022 by VM

I wrote the following essay at the invitation of a journal in December 2020. (This was the first draft. There were additional drafts that incorporated feedback from a few editors.) It couldn’t be published because I had to back out … Continue reading →

Posted in Scicomm | Tagged ABVP, anonymity, Bharatiya Janata Party, CCS Rules 1964, Hindutva, Jawaharlal Nehru University, pseudonymity, Rolling Stone, science journalism, The Wire Science | Leave a comment

Political merch from a newsroom

Posted on October 12, 2021 by VM

Shekhar Gupta, the editor of The Print, shared the following image on his Instagram profile a couple days ago: The post had the following note: Since we so love politics at ThePrint, we are developing a range of gifting merchandise. … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis | Tagged autocracy, Hindutva, journalism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, The Print, view from nowhere | Comments Off

Ending 2020

Posted on December 23, 2020 by VM

My blogging took a hit this year – as did everything for everyone. I couldn’t publish nearly as much as I’d have liked. While the average post length was the highest it’s ever been – 989 words – and audience … Continue reading →

Posted in Life notes | Tagged 2020, blogging, Hindutva, public dialogue, right wing, whataboutery | Leave a comment

‘Hunters’, sci-fi and pseudoscience

Posted on March 8, 2020 by VM

One of the ways in which pseudoscience is connected to authoritarian governments is through its newfound purpose and duty to supply an alternate intellectual tradition that subsumes science as well as culminates in the identitarian superiority of a race, culture … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Scicomm, Science | Tagged Adolf Hitler, Bharatiya Janata Party, civil aviation, Delhi riots, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, electricity, ethnic cleansing, Hindutva, Hunters, identity politics, John Forster, Nazism, occult, provincialism, pseudoscience, sci-fi, science fiction, technology, The Coming Race, Vril | Leave a comment

Why are the Nobel Prizes still relevant?

Posted on October 16, 2019 by VM

Note: A condensed version of this post has been published in The Wire. Around this time last week, the world had nine new Nobel Prize winners in the sciences (physics, chemistry and medicine), all but one of whom were white … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Op-eds, Science | Tagged Abhijit Banerjee, Albert Einstein, Appa Rao Podile, Booker Prize, Brian Keating, Caltech, Chien-Shiung Wu, CV Raman, Esther Duflo, Fermilab, Göran Hansson, gender-based discrimination, Hindutva, Hugo Award, impact factor, Isaac Asimov, John B Goodenough, late capitalism, Lise Meitner, Margaret Atwood, nationalism, Nature journal, Nobel laureates, Nobel Prize, prestige bias, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sexism, The Big Bang Theory, Vera Rubin | Comments Off

Religious sentiments: upsetting them v. getting upset

Posted on April 3, 2017 by VM

If the BJP/Congress have been offended by Prashant Bhushan’s tweet, it could only be because they have interpreted his tweet offensively. Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged gopis, Hindutva, Honour killings, Krishna, Prashant Bhushan, religious myths, religious sentiments, Romeo, Romeo and Juliet, self-determination, Uttar Pradesh, women, women's empowerment, Yogi Adityanath | Leave a comment