Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr. is a political journalist based in New Delhi, with a particular interest in human rights issues.

Starting at the top: why rights groups need to engage religious leaders

For human rights to find resonance in the global South, we must connect them to the existing beliefs of the people by engaging religious leaders. Without this cultural resonance, the human movement is doomed to fail. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate, Religion and Human Rights.

By Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr

/ 30 Apr 2014

Indias Bush-baiters and pro-US courtiers

George W Bush is a natural target of hate and ridicule for liberal secularists, Marxists and Muslim right-wingers in India. The alliance against the United States president is an uneasy

By Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr

/ 7 Mar 2006

Delhis bombs: landscape of jihad in south Asia

The three coordinated bomb blasts two of them in crowded markets in New Delhi on 29 October have brought home once again that terrorism is not a distant rumour. The

By Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr

/ 2 Nov 2005

The end of ideology in India?

The articles by Antara Dev Sen and Rajeev Bhargava on openDemocracy vividly convey the intense sense of relief felt by liberal, middle-class Indians at the defeat of the right-wing Bharatiya

By Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr

/ 9 Jun 2004

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr

Starting at the top: why rights groups need to engage religious leaders

India&#146;s Bush-baiters and pro-US courtiers

Delhi&#146;s bombs: landscape of jihad in south Asia

The end of ideology in India?

Indias Bush-baiters and pro-US courtiers

Delhis bombs: landscape of jihad in south Asia