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Jay Jina

Jay Jina

Jay Jina is a UK-based third generation NRI. After a business career, most recently as a European IT Director with a multinational, Jay is now an independent consultant and a part time university academic in Technology Management, Business and Mathematics. Jay's interests span history, current affairs, the Indian Diaspora and the history and politics of Science.

The Kashmir Files: An Inconvenient Truth
Film Reviews

The Kashmir Files: An Inconvenient Truth

Jay Jina- March 23, 2022

(Image courtesy: Reuters) Many in the diaspora who know of Birmingham, England, will be aware of its links to the Kashmir issue. In 1984, Indian ... Read More

“What Does it Mean to be ‘Indian’?” – A Review
Book Reviews

“What Does it Mean to be ‘Indian’?” – A Review

Jay Jina- January 7, 2022

Who do you think you are? Ask this question of the ordinary small town or rural vernacular-schooled Indian and they instinctively point to traditions, rituals, ... Read More

Oh, the intolerance! Where’s the evacuation flotilla?
Archives, Blog

Oh, the intolerance! Where’s the evacuation flotilla?

Jay Jina- June 4, 2019

Oh, the intolerance! Bharat Mata ki Jai? - My oh my, have you ever heard such rabid Communal Hindu Nationalism? SO hateful and hurtful it ... Read More

Privilege and the Pagan: The road to Tirumala
Archives, Commentaries

Privilege and the Pagan: The road to Tirumala

Jay Jina- June 16, 2018

In India, behold the privilege that a minority secular theocracy exercises. Imposed on citizens, as only a doctrine founded on a confessional theology can be, ... Read More

(South) Asians?  Who?  Us? –  Astitva and Asmita
Archives, Identity (Distortion & Appropriation)

(South) Asians? Who? Us? – Astitva and Asmita

Jay Jina- June 1, 2016

To the South Asianist school, the mere thought that Indians (and therefore Hindus) self define themselves is a display of “chauvinism”, “revanchist”, “saffronisation” and worse, ... Read More