Rajeev Srinivasan

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Rajeev Srinivasan (Hindi: राजीव श्रीनिवासन) is an Indian journalist, blogger and Hindu rights activist. He was educated at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and at Stanford Business School and works in software sales and is a marketing professional [1]. He writes a regular opinion column for Indian web portal Rediff. He has been featured in Outlook and other magazines.

His writings are generally conservative, in particular sympathetic to Hindu nationalism, a stream of right-wing political thought in India.

In one column [2], he theorized that the tsunami of December 2004 was a celestial punishment for the atrocities being visited on the Kanchi Acharya.

Most of the issues he frequents are about threats to Hinduism's and/or India's interests, including:

He has an active blog at Blogspot, titled "Shadow Warrior". As of March 2007, he has taken on a group of co-authors for the same, but maintains a Wordpress blog for his sole authorship. Some of the major blogosphere issues he has been instrumental in covering include the California textbook controversy over Hindu history 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 December 2003, he made an appearance as a guest speaker at the Indian Institute of Science's Prasthutha forum, speaking on "Rethinking Indian History" [4].

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