Author is Founder and Director of Mimamsa FOundation for Indic Studies (MFIS)
Akshay Ranade
02 Oct, 2024
A perennial dilemma faced by any sincere student of Indian politics is how to analyse V D Savarkar as a political figure whose ideas and ideals continue to decisively shape Indian polity. The relevance of Savarkar is restricted not just to the political debates surrounding his pivotal treatise on Hinduvta –arguably his most popular work through which he attempted to solidify a nebulous identity of Hindus – but extends to prevailing socio-political realities that continue to define India.
Akshay Ranade
01 May, 2020
India, with its distinct socio-cultural and political setting, has to be studied with its distinct realities. This socio-political distinctiveness is a consequence of underpinning philosophical, cultural and societal values and norms
Akshay Ranade
10 June, 2021
A perennial dilemma faced by any sincere student of Indian politics is how to analyse V D Savarkar as a political figure whose ideas and ideals continue to decisively shape Indian polity.
Akshay Ranade
06 September, 2021
As soon as Kafeel Khan was ordered to be released immediately by the Allahabad HC after finding no substance in the charge levied against him under the NSA, there was a genuine rejoicing of the judgement.
Akshay Ranade
14 August, 2022
Yogi Aurobindo was in many ways a quintessential Bharatiya Rishi who embodied a revolutionary zeal when his country expected it from him and eventually assumed his destined path of spiritual quest