Earlier today, I read Dave Anderson’s Nov 21 2020 article Democrats fell into the language trap — again. The following lines in his piece, in particular, caught my eye: The Democratic Party has fallen into the language trap again, only this time they themselves have used some of the key…

Note prescribed* for inclusion: “This paper is already presented in the National Seminar The Recensions of Nāṭyaśāstra, sponsored by the National Mission for Manuscripts, held from 27th to 29th February, 2020 at Rashtriya Sanskrit Samsthan, V.V. Campus, Balahar, Kangra, H.P. and will be published as part of the Samikshika series of the National Mission for Manuscripts.” [*in an email titled Permission to use paper, dated Oct 14 2020, from the Coordinator Research & Publication, National Mission for Manuscripts]

On Aug 18th, I had written this sentence-by-sentence response to Kasturi and Gomes’ article To Say That an Indian Nation-State Existed in the Ancient Past Is Historical Manipulation. In my response, I had demonstrated instances of manipulation, straw man fallacies, attempts at spreading misinformation, factual inaccuracies, an attempt at putting…

For Iain McLean (DPhil), Professor of Politics, Official Fellow, Nuffield College, ‘one of the finest parts of WN’[1] (‘WN: Inquiry into … the Wealth of Nations. Glasgow edn vol. II in two parts’[2]) is Adam Smith’s ‘discussion of taxation and public expenditure’[3]. He praises Smith as being “two hundred years…

In her conversation with Shashi Tharoor at the launch of his book An Era of Darkness: The British empire in India at the Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA), Nidhi Razdan said: “Interesting, when we talk about what to come here, and you mention that on page 113, saying that they weren’t…