Rajiv Malhotra

Want to conserve Sanskrit? Throw colonisation out of your mind, says Najma Heptulla

Sanskrit would have survived had it become language of commoners, Union Minister Najma Heptulla noted on Tuesday

Journalism today: Will social media turn mainstream media irrelevant?

It was eerie that while the MSM at the Steve Coll discussion in Bengaluru felt threatened by social media, those at the Malhotra discussions in the same city were actually finding it liberating

Rajiv Malhotra's Indra's Net: Seven big ideas and Hinduism's integral unity

Rajiv Malhotra's book Indra's Net has be criticised by some for failing to provide adequate attribution for some ideas. But more important than these allegations are the core ideas he presents in the book. The author says there are 7 big ideas

Decolonising Indology: Rajiv Malhotra on why he won't follow rules set by the West

Rajiv Malhotra, target of a campaign over inadequate attribution to western Indologists in his book Indra's Net, explains that he is not here to play by the rules set by western academicians for their own purposes.

Rajiv Malhotra plagiarism row: It's about cultural intimidation, not freedom of speech

It’s no secret there are plenty of those derided as “aadarsh liberals” who are not unhappy about Rajiv Malhotra’s latest tribulations.

Free speech for plagiarists: Writer Rajiv Malhotra's supporters reveal hypocrisy of bhakts

Controversial writer Rajiv Malhotra has succeeded where others failed. He has reminded the Indian right wing of the virtues of free speech. Courtesy Malhotra, the book-burning cabals and poster-tearing hooligans of India are rallying around the very right whose value they once questioned. Writer-activist Madhu Kishwar is currently spearheading a campaign against, well, another campaign demanding that Malhotra's books be pulped for allegedly plagiarising the work of several western scholars.

Wendy's revenge: Plagiarism charge against Rajiv Malhotra is a red herring

Accusations of plagiarism against Indian American author Rajiv Malhotra are a smoke-screen for a generalised attack on Hindu intellectuals.

Plagiarism charge: Why Rajiv Malhotra is on the gunsights of western Indologists

Rajiv Malhotra, a Hindu disapora intellectual who has tried to reverse the gaze from east to west and take on American academicians on their portrayal of Indic culture and Hinduism, is the target of an attack using "plagiarism" charges as the weapon

The Rajiv Malhotra debate: Sorry, plagiarism is not the vice of only those we dislike

By that same token, arguments about plagiarism leveled at Rajiv Malhotra should be treated as just that – allegations of plagiarism.

No queerness please, we are Indian: Devdutt Pattanaik on the stories they don't tell us

Mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik explores the stories that fall into the cracks between traditional notions of masculinity and femininity and discovers a treasure-trove of queerness in Hindu lore.