Rajeev Srinivasan
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Rajeev Srinivasan is a prominent Indian journalist, blogger and Hindu rights activist. He was educated at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and Stanford Business School, works in software sales and is a marketing professional [1]. He writes a regular opinion column for Indian web portal Rediff, in addition to writing occasionally for Outlook and other magazines. In December 2003, he made an appearance as a guest speaker at the Indian Institute of Science's Prasthutha forum, speaking on "Rethinking Indian History" [2].
His writings are generally conservative, and tilt towards a Hindu/Indian nationalist perspective, making him popular among pro-Hindu activists. Most of the issues he frequents are about threats to Hinduism's and/or India's interests, including:
- Islamism and Islamic extremist terrorism
- The rise of Chinese power and influence
- Christian missionary activity and conversions
- Minority appeasement politics in India
- Leftist politics in India
- Western bias against and insensitivity towards Indian interests
- The Aryan Invasion theory of Hinduism's appearance in India
- Anti-Hinduism expression in general
He has an active blog at Blogspot, titled "Shadow Warrior". Some of the major blogosphere issues he has been instrumental in covering include the Californian Hindu textbook controversy and Shekhar Gupta's "Hindu fanatic bombers" slip-up.
He insists that the Treasure ship voyages of the Chinese Ming dynasty into the Indian Ocean and to Africa under Admiral Zheng He were "concocted to give the impression that the indian ocean rim has been a chinese hinterland for a long time", and an instance of "inventing 'history' to justify future colonization" [3]. In general, he spends more keystrokes than other writers of his genre in exposing what he alleges are nefarious designs of modern-day Chinese imperialism.
