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Sandeep Balakrishna

Sandeep Balakrishna

The writer is a technologist, author of Tipu Sultan: The Tyrant of Mysore, the English translator of SL Bhyrappa’s Aavarna, and independent scholar.

By Sandeep Balakrishna

The spate of London attacks and rivers of blood

Multiculturalism as we know it in practice is a double-edged sword.

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Dadasaheb Phalke honour for K Viswanath is Sankarabharanam for the master himself

The legacy of his masterpiece has stood the test of time, cutting across at least two generations.

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Elections 2017: Is Modi ushering in a culture of true federalism?

He can end the noxious culture of non-cooperation between a central government ruled by one party and state governments ruled by a different one.

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Why no one had a problem with Jallikattu, Kambala until PETA-like outfits came along

It's not just about animal rights, but also a clash between the urban and the rural.

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Mackenzie manuscripts: A forgotten and abandoned treasure

Part one of Colonel Colin Mackenzie's seminal work on the political, economic, and administrative history of south India post 1600 AD.

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Siddaramaiah has turned Karnataka into a graveyard for bureaucrats

MK Ganapathy who committed suicide was one among the many officials who had been harassed by the government.

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How new-age 'gurus' turned yoga into a business, distorted its Hindu roots

What they hawk as yoga violates every known precept, tenet, and guideline laid down by Vedic tradition.

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Sunset battle of the Hindus

Bijapur prime minister, Rafiuddin Shirazi lived for 24 years after Talikota took place and left behind eyewitness accounts of the encounter.

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Why Siddaramaiah is the Rahul Gandhi of Karnataka

His regime has been a directionless mix of disastrous far Left economic policies, unrestrained anti-Hinduism, and near lawlessness.

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Why Rahul Gandhi will see the extinction of Congress in his lifetime

The party vice-president has the Bhasmasura touch: anything he touches, burns to ashes.

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