The sixth-grade classroom in America has become the battle ground for geo-politically charged fights where the anti-Hindu biases of the academicians are ruling the roost. Is the sixth-grade classroom the right place to prosecute an American minority

BY Rajiv Malhotra 9 February 2006

How institutional ideologies and capital empower the scholars' cartel politically, and how Indian scholars perform in compromising positions for the cartel. Article #9 in the continuing dialogue.

BY Rajiv Malhotra 11 February 2004

Indian postcolonialists (who started with good intentions). are like outsourced coolies who sustain and enhance the theory and the politics of the Western Knowledge Factory. In other words, they are working for the cartel.  Article #8 in the continui

BY Rajiv Malhotra 10 February 2004

The nature of the peer-review process is creating a knowledge production cartel that gives the Western academy neocolonialist control over the means of production of knowledge. It is the cartel's mutual assurance that they are emperors with clothes.

BY Rajiv Malhotra 1 February 2004

Fifth piece in the on-going samvad where Rajiv Malhotra agrees with Vijay Prashad's suggestion to go zara dheere se and proposes a restructuring of the dialogue into a manageable number of distinct (while overlapping) themes.

BY Rajiv Malhotra 22 January 2004

It began with an e-mail sent out to various individuals who define themselves as Indian Leftists requesting a 'samvad'. Text of the e-mail that has led to 'serious exchanges on important issues, but without ad hominems ... in the spirit of the purva-

BY Rajiv Malhotra 14 January 2004

Why does the Left fail to answer questions about its first principles without resorting to the Hindutva 'Other' for its own self-definition? Third piece in the on-going debate.

BY Rajiv Malhotra 14 January 2004