Podcast #243: The Freedom to Blaspheme Jonathan Kay speaks to fellow podcast host Kushal Mehra about the ‘eerie similarities’ between censorship campaigns in India and Canada. Quillette 17 Jul 2024 · 18 min read
A Different Way of Doing Atheism Indian philosophical traditions such as Nāstika and Nirīśvaravāda offer the West’s angry ‘neo-atheists’ a more nuanced model for channelling their religious disbelief. Kushal Mehra 12 Jun 2024 · 8 min read
Bad History at the BBC A new radio series about the 1943 Bengal famine favours culture-war polemic over rigorous scholarship. Hira Jungkow 2 May 2024 · 6 min read
Swastikas of Both Sorts: Hindu Nationalism's Fascist Nostalgia Hindu nationalism is nostalgic for a golden age that never existed, before the invasions of first the Muslims and then the British. Anwesh Satpathy 30 Apr 2024 · 12 min read
India’s Illiberal First Amendment The Indian government’s tendency to crack down on speech of which it disapproves dates from the founding of the republic. Anwesh Satpathy 25 Jan 2024 · 11 min read
The European Union Is Finally Coming Around to Gene-Edited Seeds For a quarter century, activists such as Vandana Shiva have opposed GM crops that can help feed the world. Now, more than ever, it’s time to reject their Luddite demands Zion Lights 14 Aug 2023 · 15 min read
Imagine There’s No Svarga: Rediscovering Cārvāka, India’s 2,700-Year-Old Atheistic Tradition The Cārvākas considered only matter—that which could be sensed—to be real. Kushal Mehra 1 May 2022 · 8 min read
Next Year in Simla: Thirty years After Its Defeat, the Khalistan Movement Fights on in Cyberspace Even if the referendum turns out to be a complete failure, though, the Khalistanis seem unlikely to fade away. Terry Milewski 26 Jan 2022 · 19 min read
India’s Increasingly Despotic Crackdown on Journalists The deadly attacks on journalists, who now work within a tightening entanglement of political bosses and business behemoths, signifies the rise of India’s elected despots. Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane 16 Nov 2021 · 7 min read
