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Sandeep Balakrishna

Sandeep Balakrishna

- Opinion
- November 13, 2023, 1:04 PM IST
Opinion | Why K Annamalai Infuriates The DMK
Naicker’s statue has a ubiquitous presence throughout Tamil Nadu. And so, Annamalai’s promise to remove it if the BJP comes to power is a baby step towards civilisational rectification. It must be viewed as a socio-cultural imperative that must be accomplished
- Opinion
- November 1, 2023, 3:05 PM IST
Opinion | Transforming Punyabhoomi Ayodhya into International Crime Scene: The Secularist History-Sheet
From that turbulent era to the present period witnessing a slow civilisational recovery, the Ram Mandir journey has been epoch-making
- Opinion
- October 15, 2023, 5:35 PM IST
Opinion | The Tragic Decline and Fall of the Mankhas
The Mankhas, who had been the pride of the Sanatana society for uncountable centuries, were hurtling towards extinction under British rule. Things have not improved a bit since Independence
- Opinion
- September 29, 2023, 5:10 PM IST
Opinion | The Glorious Universe of Yamapatas
Major Sanskrit literary works mention Yamapattakas or picture showmen who painted Yamapatas
- Opinion
- September 7, 2023, 5:29 PM IST
Opinion | Introduction to Mankhas, the Vanished Picture Showmen
For countless centuries, Mankhas were a ubiquitous presence not just in India but abroad as well. What began as a practice and profession of exhibiting scroll pictures and paintings depicting different Puranic themes eventually became a cultural treasure
- Opinion
- August 13, 2023, 1:04 PM IST
Opinion | A Heartbroken Italian Lover’s Discovery of Primary Arithmetic Education in Karnataka
What Pietro Valle witnessed in the wild hills of Gerusoppa in the 17th century was simply the time-tested Indian method of learning. Marvellous in its simplicity and an incredibly powerful method whereby what you have learned stays with you for life
- Opinion
- July 18, 2023, 1:32 PM IST
Opinion | How Zafar’s Red Fort Epitomised Carefree Living, Profligate Spending and Decadence on an Epic Scale
When the First War of Independence erupted in 1857, Bahadur Shah Zafar was singularly unprepared to lead it. In fact, he refused to lead it given the fact that he had displayed an active distaste for all things valorous and heroic
- Opinion
- July 7, 2023, 4:04 PM IST
Opinion | What Life Was Like Inside Bahadur Shah Zafar’s Red Fort
An intriguing document of 800 pages, titled ‘Precis of Palace Intelligence’ furnishes first-hand details of life inside Bahadur Shah’s Red Fort. The picture is horrific, to say the least
- Opinion
- May 30, 2023, 1:43 PM IST
Opinion | The Forgotten History of Multan: Slow, Painful Death of a Land That was at Par with Kashi and Ayodhya
Moolasthana, today’s Multan, was the first major ancient ‘Tirthakshetra’ to be savaged by the Arab raider named Muhammad bin Qasim who desecrated the Vigraha of the grand Aditya temple, the cynosure of the city
- Opinion
- May 1, 2023, 2:36 PM IST
Opinion | Waiting for a Creative Work on the 1962 Nehruvian Nightmare
We have less than ten books, half of which are truthful and reliable. And these are non-fictional works. To date, there has been no work of fiction — literary or cinematic — narrating the dark truths of 1962. If the subject is treated well, it has all the makings of a modern epic
- Opinion
- April 23, 2023, 5:54 PM IST
OPINION | Including & Dropping Lessons on Mughals from History Textbooks
The latest fracas over the chapters related to the Mughals in the NCERT history textbooks is also the latest testimony to the durable success of the Marxist mangling of Indian history, says the author
- Opinion
- April 1, 2023, 1:24 PM IST
Opinion | Amit Shah Has Understated Congress Role in Agency Misuse: Party Exercised Quasi-Dictatorship
The familiar argument that Indira Gandhi was primarily responsible for the destruction of democratic institutions is true only in a limited sense. Jawaharlal Nehru had already primed the field. She harvested the venomous crop
- Opinion
- March 30, 2023, 2:59 PM IST
Opinion | Congress Misuse of Agencies: Where Does One Even Begin?
What Union Home Minister Amit Shah said at the Rising India Summit was nothing terribly new. He was just one of the latest and high-profile victims of the habitual Congress tyranny, which predates India’s Independence

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