Koenraad Elst

Friday, May 13, 2022

Does India really need a Uniform Civil Code?

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(First Post, 13 May 2022, under the title: UCC can wait! First fight anti-Hindu discriminations in education and temple management) F...
Monday, April 18, 2022

Sita Ram Goel: The man who exposed Nehruvian fallacies and won our hearts with his mind

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. A 100 years ago, Sita Ram Goel was born in a poor family, and through his sheer hard work and intellect, exposed the hollowness of the Lef...

“I am not aware of any governmental interest in correcting distorted history”

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Koenraad Elst: “I am not aware of any governmental interest in correcting distorted history” (interview by Surajit Dasgupta- 5 June, 2016, S...

Why ISIS targeted Brussels

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(DailyO, .26 March 2016;  Courtesy of   Mail Today . )   March 22 is henceforth an iconic date in Belgian history. Bomb attacks in the depar...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

A "union of states"

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A "union of states"  ( First Post , 12 Feb 2022) According to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, “India is described in the Indian Cons...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Questioning the Equality Statue

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    Questioning the Equality Statue   ( First Post , mid-January 2022)     On 5 February 2022, the revered Prime Minister, Sri N...
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Koenraad Elst
Koenraad Elst (°Leuven 1959) distinguished himself early on as eager to learn and to dissent. After a few hippie years he studied at the KU Leuven, obtaining MA degrees in Sinology, Indology and Philosophy. After a research stay at Benares Hindu University he did original fieldwork for a doctorate on Hindu nationalism, which he obtained magna cum laude in 1998. As an independent researcher he earned laurels and ostracism with his findings on hot items like Islam, multiculturalism and the secular state, the roots of Indo-European, the Ayodhya temple/mosque dispute and Mahatma Gandhi's legacy. He also published on the interface of religion and politics, correlative cosmologies, the dark side of Buddhism, the reinvention of Hinduism, technical points of Indian and Chinese philosophies, various language policy issues, Maoism, the renewed relevance of Confucius in conservatism, the increasing Asian stamp on integrating world civilization, direct democracy, the defence of threatened freedoms, and the Belgian question. Regarding religion, he combines human sympathy with substantive skepticism.
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