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  • Ayodhya & After
    • by Koenraad Elst
      I am not a Hindu. And I am certainly not a Muslim. So, when I started writing my earlier book Ram Janmabhoomi vs Babri Masjid, a Case Study in Hindu-Muslim Conflict, in the spring of 1990, I was an outsider to this conflict between Hindus and Muslims. But as I ventured deeper into the unique configuration of forces now existing in India, I saw that this was not a conflict between just any two communities. .....
  • Jharkhand tribals protest inclusion of converts
    • by IndianMuslims.info
      The tribals in Jharkhand are concerned over the 'invasion' of the converted people who avail of government benefits even as the real community remains deprived of education and job opportunities. .....
  • 'I Left The Naxals, Joined Salva Judum'
    • by Shivam Vij
      I ran away from home in 2002, when I was 16. I walked to the Dantewada railway station and took a train to Hyderabad where I got a job with a company called Krypton Novelties. I supplied gift items to shops and was happy with my job. My parents would call my employer to check on me, but they had stopped speaking to me. .....
  • "Bhagavad Gita will be burnt"
    • by Shachi Rairikar
      Dravidar Kazhagam (DK) president K Veeramani has alleged that Ramayana, one of the oldest and well-known epics of the world, besmirched women. The DK leader also said that the Bhagavad Gita and Manusmriti too denigrated the women folk. Hence, a demonstration would be held soon and these sacred scriptures of the Hindus would be burnt to ashes. .....
  • Some Imams incite to kill women, beat children: PA Academic
    • by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook
      In an open challenge to Palestinian leadership, Dr. Nadir Sa'id of Bir Zeit University condemned the violence in Palestinian society and placed the blame on the political and religious leaders. He blamed both Fatah and Hamas, including the Prime Minister and others ministers, for hundreds of killings. He condemned some Imams who preach the killing of women and beating of children. .....
  • 'Musharraf is a skilful liar'
    • by Expressindia.com
      The chief of Pakistan's human rights watchdog has said President Pervez Musharraf is a "skilful liar", but is losing his touch and sees ghosts everywhere. .....
  • SEZ, lies and massacres
    • by P R Ramesh
      Lies often acquire a life of their own and it takes just one incident for the truth to come out. The CPI(M) is realising this to its utter discomfort. The Nandigram massacre stripped the CPI(M) of its carefully cultivated facade of hypocrisy and sanctimoniousness that used to mask its Stalinist impulses and its spurious faith in democracy. .....
  • Woman re-interprets Koran with feminist view
    • by Manuela Badawy
      A new English-language interpretation of the Muslim Holy book the Koran challenges the use of words that feminists say have been used to justify the abuse of Islamic women. .....
  • Has the Malayalee stopped thinking?
    • by Jeemon Jacob
      Nandigram is a hot topic in Kerala's political circles. The State Congress has sent a delegation to the West Bengal village led by Ramesh Chennitala, the tireless anti-Communist state party chief. But, in the end, it was mere political opportunism that might have driven khadi-clad State Congressmen to Nandigram. .....
  • Never say sorry
    • by Basab Dasgupta
      In our early youth, we were drawn to Marxism because there was something robustly humane about its appeal. Its compassion towards the oppressed, its fervour to fight against the oppressor and, above all, the dream it conveyed of a society which is not based on coercion of the State, had led many of us to join the Communist party. .....
  • Conscience pricks
    • by Udayan Namboodiri
      With notable exceptions, the cream of Bengal's intellectual glitteratti have spoken out against Nandigram. As these were the very ones who were earlier mocked as Buddhajeevis - cheerleaders for Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee - the Chief Minister is left a lonely man. His utterly shameless defence of the police establishment has, however, attracted new friends like Benoy Konar .....
  • Somali gov't names Qaeda leader as fighting rages
    • by Sahal Abdulle
      The Somali government said on Thursday that al Qaeda had made a young militant Islamist commander its leader in Mogadishu as fighting raged for a second day in the coastal capital. .....
  • Sterile clichés of comatose Left
    • by Premen Addy
      London for me is a city without peer. Paris and Rome may be more pleasing to the eye but give me London every time for sheer character. It is the true global village in which homegrown communities live cheek-by-jowl with humans from every corner of Planet Earth in the everlasting pursuit of happiness. "He who is tired of London is tired of life," exclaimed that archetypal Londoner Samuel Johnson. .....
  • India rejects US offer of joint operations against LeT
    • by Indrani Bagchi
      India has rejected a US proposal for joint operation against Lashkar-e-Toiba, in a move that has baffled many given that LeT is the principal terror threat to India, and that counter-terrorism has been a high bilateral priority. .....
  • Pati, patni aur pita
    • by Savie Karnel
      Prerana Mehta Shah (26), the daughter-in-law of former Civil Aviation Minister C M Ibrahim, has sent a complaint to the National Women's Commission (NWC) alleging that her in-laws are responsible for creating rifts in her marriage. .....
  • Rahul, the politician
    • by S Viswam
      The difference between a politician and a statesman, it is said, is that while a politician always talks without thinking, a statesman never talks without thinking. Mr Rahul Gandhi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son, is currently being groomed in politics. He seems to be adapting himself quite well to politics considering that he has begun talking without thinking. Whether he will ever prove to be a statesman is in the realm of conjecture and wishful thinking. .....
  • Finding Sirpur
    • by Chitra Ramaswamy
      An intriguing aspect of the findings relates to the presence of statues belonging to Vaishnavite, Shaivite, Buddhist and Jain religions at one place. This is believed to be one of the biggest temple towns of the sixth and seventh centuries discovered anywhere so far. .....
  • CM, energy minister in a power battle
    • by Prafulla Marpakwar
      Chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and senior NCP leader, energy minister Dilip Walse-Patil, are on a collision course over the disconnection of power supply to the politically powerful Mula Pravara Cooperative Electric Supply Society following its failure to pay Rs 930 crore dues. .....
  • HC prods UP to act against Taslima fatwa
    • by Manjari Mishra
      The Lucknow bench of the Allhabad high court on Thursday directed the UP government to report what action it intended to take over the fatwa issued by the All-India Ibtehad Council (AIIC) against exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen. .....
  • Why a review of mid-day meal scheme should start with CM Deshmukh's constituency
    • by Mihika Basu
      Roshan Urdu Primary School in Babhalgaon is clean, orderly and provides its 40 students a good mid-day meal that alternates between dal-chawal, biryani, kichdi godbhat and biscuits. Ten km from Latur town and within Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh's constituency, it is a school that receives government grants and is run by the Sushilabai Deshmukh Education Society. .....
  • 'Nandigram a CPM-police carnage'
    • by Ajanta Chakraborty
      How does it feel to be party to a mass-murder masterminded by politicians? Or - precisely - to be branded as "killers-in-uniform" by just about everyone, including one's own family? .....
  • Rahul's step backward
    • by Tavleen Singh
      The Dar-ul-Uloom in Deoband is jihad central. It inspired the barbarous Taliban to practice a version of Islam in which women could be stoned to death for learning to read, and its religious ideology inspired Osama bin Laden to believe that terrorism was some kind of grotesque holy war. .....
  • Don't politicise troop reduction in J&K
    • by V.P. Malik
      The threat of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) to break up the ruling alliance, if Jammu and Kashmir is not demilitarised and if the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act is not repealed, has again raised the ultra-sensitive issue of the politicisation of national security. Having experienced similar situations in the past (and written about it in my book, Kargil - From Surprise to Victory), it may be useful to make a few observations in this regard. .....
  • SEZ, lies and massacres
    • by P R Ramesh
      Lies often acquire a life of their own and it takes just one incident for the truth to come out. The CPI(M) is realising this to its utter discomfort. The Nandigram massacre stripped the CPI(M) of its carefully cultivated facade of hypocrisy and sanctimoniousness that used to mask its Stalinist impulses and its spurious faith in democracy. .....
  • 'Wanted a Muslim kidney', says a paper advt in Kerala
    • by Kumar Chellappan
      It seems the Marxists in Bengal and Kerala are vying with one another to get rid of the last drops of the goodwill they enjoy with the people in their states. There was a time in Kerala when we were very proud to proclaim our Marxist leanings. The 1970s and 80s used to be the era when we shouted the slogan: "There is no Hindu blood among us; There is no Muslim blood among us and there is no Christian blood among us. It is human blood which runs in our veins and it is red in colour." .....
  • Marxist hate speech:Where to draw line
    • by Dr. Babu Suseelan
      There is a growing concern that Marxist ministers in Kerala frequently send offensive messages against Hindus, temple worship and sacred rituals. We hear and see crude and rude language and offensive remarks from Marxist ideologues. People are talking about where to draw the line. There is growing concern that Marxist free speech is becoming too obnoxious and provocative. Marxist freedom of expression has become a crusade against Hindus. .....
  • An insight into Rahul`s mind
    • by T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan
      Had someone from my family been prime minister in 1992, said Rahul Gandhi, who, in all probability, is the next Congress prime minister, the Babri Masjid would still be standing. Or words to that effect. .....
  • Names people play
    • by The Pioneer
      Earlier this week Pakistan tested a 700-km range nuclear-capable missile that is, roughly, the analogue to India's Brahmos missile. What was most interesting about the test was the name the Pakistan Government accorded to its newest showpiece - Babar. Pakistan has now tested or incorporated missiles named after Mahmud of Ghazni, Mohammed-bin-Ghori, Ahmed Shah Abdali and Zahiruddin Mohammad Babar. .....
  • 'Rahul's words will hit Cong prospects in UP'
    • by The Times of India
      Come Uttar Pradesh elections and it's the Hindutva plank to the fore again. The Sangh Parivar is speaking in one voice backing former chief minister and prodigal son Kalyan Singh and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has provided them with new ammunition. .....
  • Nine SSC students choose not to be another brick in the wall
    • by Anuradha Mane
      This Tuesday, when thousands of students will begin their SSC examination, it will mark a turning point in their lives. Especially so for sixteen-year-old-twins Santosh and Surekha Shirke (15) for whom it is not just an academic challenge but a personal one too. As children of brick kiln workers, education, among several other must-haves, was a dream. .....
  • For CPM rally, Maidan is open ground
    • by Bidyut Rot
      The Army lost another battle to its political command, with the CPI (M) mobilising the Union Ministry of Defence to outflank the Eastern Command. The party got the rights to use the ground on Maidan for a rally against the wishes of Eastern Command, the custodians of Maidan. .....
  • Anti-terror JV: India offers Pak the proof
    • by The Economic Times
      India on Tuesday handed over to Pakistan a photo of a suspected Pakistani national believed to be behind the attack on the Attari Special, to drive home the point that acts of terror are sponsored by elements across the border. India had said that Pakistan's response to the proof provided by India will test the efficacy of the Indo-Pakistan joint terror mechanism. .....
  • SC seeks govt's explanation on shifting highways
    • by Sanjay K Singh
      The Supreme Court has sought an explanation from the UPA government on why the original route of the 366-km East-West Corridor of the National Highway Project, initiated by the NDA government, was changed. .....
  • India's public profile most improved: Poll
    • by Rashmee Roshan Lall
      India is the only one of 12 major countries to have significantly improved its global stature in the past year, even as Israel, Iran, the US and North Korea are overwhelmingly negatively identified as the world's new rogue states by disparate groups of people in 27 countries around the world, according to a new BBC poll. .....
  • 84% MPs are crorepatis
    • by Deccan Chronicle
      In India, where some 30 per cent of the people live below the poverty line, around 84 per cent of their elected representatives in the Lok Sabha are millionaires and multi-millionaires. This newspaper made an extensive study of the declarations by Lok Sabha MPs to the Election Commission during the 2004 general election and found that in a House of 532 elected MPs (out of a House of 545 members - two of whom are nominated, there are 11 vacancies), at least 145 members have cash, jewellery, bonds, shares in business undertakings, motor vehicles, agricultural/non-agricultural land and residential and commercial properties worth more than Rs 1 crore in their own name or that of their wives and children. .....
  • Dodging The Issue
    • by Husain Haqqani
      Muslim leaders and intellectuals find it easier to criticize outsiders - the US, in the case of Iraq - for harm inflicted on fellow Muslims. But what about the suffering caused by fellow believers? .....
  • Islamic Supremacy at the DNC
    • by FrontPageMagazine.com
      Many people in today's Democratic party have contempt for religion, but they still have time for prayer. Last Friday, during the Democratic National Committee's Annual Winter Meeting in Washington, Husham Al-Husainy, Imam of the Karbalaa Islamic Education Center, a Shi'ite mosque in Dearborn, Michigan, offered an invocation. .....
  • Review of Galtung's solution towards Kashmir conflict
    • by Jyoti M. Pathania
      Its surely is in vogue to talk or write about Indo-Pak peace process. A new twist or the latest insight to this process was brought forth by a newspaper report which stated that President Musharraf's four point formulae had its genesis from Galtung's prescribed solution to the five decade old Kashmir problem. .....
  • Futile venture with Pakistan
    • by Vivek Gumaste
      Face to face contact between hostile neighbours is a laudable way to attain peace. But the nature of such interaction and its consequences must be carefully weighed before embarking on any such venture. Foolhardiness cannot be confused with amity; one must guard against gullibility. The Government's decision to set up a joint anti-terrorism task force with Pakistan is a case of reckless abandon with no concern for India's security. .....
  • Temple converted into CPM party office in Kerala
    • by Haindava Keralam
      Ever since the Communist's came into power, Kerala the pseudo secular laboratory of Communist's is experimenting all sorts of Anti Hindu gimmicks to earn the loyalty of Minorities and there by aiming to destroy the roots Sanathana Dharma from the soil of Adi Sankara. .....
  • Required: Resolute will and unity
    • by Samachar.com
      The land of Gandhi, the apostle of peace, is bleeding from fratricidal violence. Contrary to the self-deluding claim that we are a peace-loving people, there is evidence galore almost daily of incidents of maniac violence and gore from all parts of the country. If one day it is the madness of the police and local administration resulting in the death of a score or more innocent villagers in Nandigram in West Bengal, the next it is the senseless killing of 55 security personnel at the hands of Naxalites in Chhattisgarh. .....
  • Stop placating Pakistan
    • by Los Angeles Times
      Suppose that a supreme court justice in an unstable but pro-American country becomes unwilling to take his cues from the authoritarian government. He orders its intelligence services to answer charges that they are holding 100 citizens who have disappeared. He is widely believed to oppose a presidential scheme to get around a constitutional ban on running for reelection. .....
  • Pot calls the kettle black
    • by Kanchan Gupta
      Even before West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's critics, both within and outside the CPI(M) and the Left Front it leads, could articulate their opposition to the ghastly atrocities that were committed by the police and Marxist cadre at Nandigram on March 14, one man had set himself to the task of cranking up criticism with remarkable energy and alacrity for his age. .....
  • Sri Sri's mission isn't impossible
    • by Gautam Siddharth
      It would be easy to dismiss Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Truth and Reconciliation Conference of Dalits and Caste Hindus held in Delhi's Pragati Maidan on Friday as a fluffy or wooly-headed enterprise of a spiritual teacher, who naively holds on to certain unlivable or unworkable ideals in the cynical times that we live in. This would be especially true of people in the journalistic profession who seem to have irrefutable knowledge about society and politics and their internal dynamic that plays itself out every moment. .....
  • Padilla recruited for al Qaeda jihad
    • by Jay Weaver
      A reputed al Qaeda member told U.S. authorities that the terror network scrutinized Jose Padilla as a recruit for Islamic extremism in 2000-01, according to a new document filed in federal court in Miami. .....
  • That Night in Nandigram
    • by Soumitra Basu
      It is a story of that horrific night. The night of 14th of March, 2007. After the completion of "Operation Nandigram" in broad day light, CPM called a local 12 hour strike (bandh) in Nandigram. A bandh was called in the evening hours in such a remote place where people mostly keep themselves indoor after sunset. Why was that called then? .....
  • Cleric probed by tax office on Saudi cash
    • by Richard Kerbaj
      A senior Muslim cleric working for the tax office in Canberra is being investigated over accusations he failed to pay income tax on thousands of dollars he allegedly received from the Saudi embassy. .....
  • Bengal scores a self-goal
    • by Swapan Das Gupta
      There is an irresistible temptation to gloat over the CPI(M)'s ignominy over the cadre-directed police action in Nandigram which left 14 people dead and forced many hundreds to flee their homes. Always intolerant of criticism and political opposition, the party transformed a small corner of East Midnapur into a war zone last Wednesday. .....
  • Schools ordered to give lessons in yoga
    • by Jeremy Page
      Yoga, de rigueur among celebrities and the fashionably rich from Hollywood to Hong Kong, now looks set to become compulsory in Indian schools despite objections from Muslim and Christian groups who say that it is a Hindu practice. .....
  • Poll fiasco: Is it Hindu anger that went against the Congress?
    • by M.V.Kamath
      On Sunday, August 13, 2006, the Chennai-based The Hindu known for its objectivity and fairness carried a full page report on The Hindu-CNNIBN State of the Nation Survey which tried to answer two important questions. Where exactly was the UPA Government in Delhi gaining seatand votes? Secondly, what explains the rise of the UPA? .....
  • Pakistani Khalid Sheikh confesses role in 9/11 plot
    • by Sridhar Krishnaswami
      The Pakistani national, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, a prime suspect in the 9/11 terror attacks in the US, has allegedly confessed to his role in the plot along with a slew of other strikes over the last several years. .....
  • The CPM's new minorityism
    • by Darius Nakhoonwala
      The Telegraph pointed out uncharitably that in its 43-year history, the party never had a Muslim or Dalit in its politburo. .....
  • CPM captures Nandigram
    • by Saugar Sengupta
      A day after Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's police 'enforced' the state's authority over Nandigram block in West Bengal's East Midnapore district, brutally crushing popular resistance against Marxist thuggery by killing at least 14 men and women, armed CPI(M) cadre have captured the "liberated" villages, most noticeably Sonachura and Garchakraberia. .....
  • Stop this communal carnival
    • by Organiser
      Congress and its allies have not learnt any lesson from the drubbing they got in Punjab, Uttarakhand and the civic polls across the country in recent months. They are cynically encouraging the revival of Muslim separatism and segregation of that community from the national mainstream. .....
  • Hindus under Muslim rule in CPM West Bengal
    • by Animitra Chakraborty
      What is the status of the Hindus in India itself? In Jammu & Kashmir not only the non-Muslims were brutally evicted from Kashmir and forced to live as refugees in their own country, recently Shariat law was about to be implement in the whole of the state. Does that mean the Government of India accept that Jammu & Kashmir is not part of India, which is secular according to its Constitution, and religious laws cannot have any place? .....
  • Narad among the Narodniks
    • by Ashok Malik
      One doesn't have to be an opponent of economic reforms, a partisan of Mamata Banerjee or a cheerleader of the Jamaat-e-Ulama-e-Hind to recognise that Wednesday, March 14, was an inflexion point in the current politics of West Bengal. After the "cold horror" -- to use Governor Gopal Gandhi's words -- of Nandigram, two sobering realities have hit home. .....
  • Secular Islam Summit: Islam's Rebel Women Make Their Mark
    • by Alamgir Hussain
      A lot has already been written about the recently held Secular Islam Summit at St. Petersburg (Florida), yet I did not want to miss out on writing a few words about the exciting experience of this unprecedented event. As I am in the middle of writing a book, I was keen to meet up with the prominent writers and activists in the field, namely Ibn Warraq, Tashbih Sayyed, Wafa Sultan and Nonie Darwish et al. to seek their comment on and endorsement of my book. .....
  • Modi more Muslim-friendly than Buddha: Siddiqullah
    • by The Pioneer
      West Bengal president of Jamiat-Ulema-i-Hind Siddiqullah Chowdhury, who led the anti-land acquisition movement in Nandigram, on Monday said Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had a better record than Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee when it came to dealing with the Muslim minority. .....
  • Women and children shot in bus massacre
    • by Richard Lloyd Parry
      Nine people, including four women and two teenage girls, were shot through the head yesterday in one of the most shocking attacks so far in Thailand's worsening Islamic insurgency. .....
  • India is world's biggest victim of terror: Ronen Sen
    • by Sridhar Krishnaswami
      Warning that to look at terrorism through blinkers of any particular religion, region or any cause like poverty will be a "dangerous delusion," India favoured global action to tackle the menace of which it has been the "world's biggest victim." .....
  • The dictator's epilogue
    • by Wilson John
      Before Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf' is forgotten as another footnote in history, he would be remembered as a military dictator in south Asia who promoted terrorist groups with religious pretext, scripted some of the worst human rights horror stories in the recent past, deepened chasms between communities not only in his country but in the neighbourhood and turned the region over to Western powers to play their own strategic games. .....
  • Hardened Islamic Criminals and Soft Police
    • by Haindava Keralam
      Islamic criminals in India have established series of "set-ups" to manipulate citizens out of their savings, and confuse police and Income Tax Officials. It is a criminal process so subtle that victims rarely realize what is happening until it is too late. .....
  • A Defiant Yet Brutal Face Of Islamic Fascism
    • by Jamal Hasan
      Most of the authoritarian doctrines have one thing in common. That is, the end justifies the means. Thus, fascism, Nazism, and communism are the "non-divinely" inspired doctrines where humanistic and moralistic values are halted to attain the assumed larger objective. In such totalitarian predicaments, process of extinction of nonconformists may be conducted with extreme prejudice. .....
  • PM urged to make Central Haj Committee autonomous body
    • by IndianMuslims.info
      A delegation of Central Haj Committee and All India Haj Sewa Samiti led by its chairman Iqbal Ahmed Sardagi called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here Friday and urged him to make the Central Haj Committee a real independent body. .....
  • A False Choice for Pakistan
    • by Benazir Bhutto
      Last month President Bush told Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan that he must be more aggressive in hunting down al-Qaeda and the Taliban along his country's border with Afghanistan. During his recent visit to Islamabad, Vice President Cheney echoed the claim that al-Qaeda members were training in Pakistan's tribal areas and called on Musharraf to shut down their operations. .....
  • Is US ready to dump Mush?
    • by Chidanand Rajghatta
      The writing seems to be on the wall for Pakistan's military ruler Pervez Musharraf. Uncle Sam, the General's patron-in-chief, is showing signs of cashiering his favoured stooge and preparing grounds for his succession. .....
  • Thousands perform 'pongala' at 'Women's Sabarimala'
    • by NewKerala.com
      In one of world's biggest devotional congregations of women, thousands performed 'Pongala' ritual at the famous Attukal Devi temple here today turning the whole city into a virtual sea of women. .....
  • Marxist as communalist
    • by Chandan Mitra
      To use a slang expression, it can only be said that Marxists in Bengalhave lost their marbles. I shook my head in disbelief and despair onlearning that Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, toast of India'scapitalist cocktail circuit, has announced a plan to accord secondlanguage status to Urdu in West Bengal! .....
  • Indian Experience with Jihadists
    • by Narain Kataria
      Can radical Islam escape the opprobrium that it is using violence, threat, murder and terrorism to establish Sharia all over the word? .....
  • Feds on terror lookout for 'high-risk' Pakistanis
    • by Paul Sperry
      Pakistani travelers are the focus of a new temporary watchlist the federal government has created to identify high-risk passengers entering the United States, WND has learned. .....
  • While Sweden Slept
    • by Bruce Bawer
      The approach of the New Year and departure of the old inevitably brings a flurry of "year's best" lists. This even applies to nations, which some organizations make it their business annually to rank in order of wealth, quality of life, and what-have-you. .....
  • 'It's Meant To Sustain Harmony' (Interview with Virbhadra Singh)
    • by Outlook
      Q.: What are the compulsions that prompted you to enact the HP Freedom of Religion Act 2006?
      A.: Ours is a peaceful hill state where for ages people have been living in harmony. Of late, there were complaints from people regarding conversions and so the bill was brought before the Vidhan Sabha. We do not want any activity that will jeopardise social harmony. It is, however, unfortunate that vested interests have been trying to distort the purpose of the Act. .....
  • Sailor Started E-Mail on Terror, U.S. Says
    • by Jennifer Medina
      When Hassan Abujihaad was a sailor on a United States Navy destroyer in 2001, federal prosecutors said, he began exchanging e-mail messages with a man who ran an Internet site seeking to raise money for terrorist causes. .....
  • Insult of the wonder language
    • by Dr. Indulata Das
      Now let us come to some comments made on Sanskrit in a Sanskrit University by none other than the Chancellor of the same University. In the near past Shri T. V. Rajeswar, the Governor of Uttar Pradesh who is the Chancellor of the Sampurnananda Sanskrit University on the occasion of convocation of the University said 'Sanskrit is the language of the bullock cart age. If you read Sanskrit you will get services in temples as priests. .....
  • J&K situation reviewed at high level meeting
    • by Daily Excelsior
      Like any other traditional marriage ceremony in an Orissa village, this one too was held with much pomp and enthusiasm at Petacheela in Kendrapara district. The only difference was that villagers had assembled not to give their blessings to the groom - a Peepul tree - and the bride - a Banyan tree - but to get blessed by the newly wed couple. .....
  • Peepul weds Banyan in village fighting timber mafia
    • by Rajesh Behera
      Like any other traditional marriage ceremony in an Orissa village, this one too was held with much pomp and enthusiasm at Petacheela in Kendrapara district. The only difference was that villagers had assembled not to give their blessings to the groom - a Peepul tree - and the bride - a Banyan tree - but to get blessed by the newly wed couple. .....
  • Dishonest Christian Evangelists in fake Hindu Cultural Garb
    • by Dr. Babu Suseelan
      For hundreds of years, Christian missionaries have been selling fake paradise in India. Missionaries promised "the eyes of the blind will be opened, the ears of the deaf unstopped, and the wilderness will burst out in fruitful beauty." They falsely paraded the prophecy of the wolf with the lamb and the kid with the leopard and promised Biblical paradise. Missionary promises were couched in scholastic terms but their goal was political, social and economic exploitation and to liberate Hindus from their spiritual tradition and to enslave them with the rigid dogma. .....
  • Burnt offerings on the altar of multiculturalism
    • by Diana West
      Only one faith on Earth may be more messianic than Islam: multiculturalism. Without it -- without its fanatics who believe all civilizations are the same -- the engine that projects Islam into the unprotected heart of Western civilization would stall and fail. It's as simple as that. To live among the believers -- the multiculturalists -- is to watch the assault, the jihad, take place un-repulsed by our suicidal societies. .....
  • Disturbing reality buried
    • by Licia Corbella
      In the news business, it's called burying the lead. It means you missed the most important or interesting part of a story and led with something less significant. .....
  • Riyadh wants apology from Dutch politician
    • by Dawn
      Saudi Arabia wants an apology from a Dutch politician who said Muslims should "tear out half the Quran" if they wanted to live in his country and has asked the Dutch government to intervene, a Saudi newspaper said on Sunday. .....
  • Law Ministry spurns CBI request on Lalu
    • by The Indian Express
      The Law Ministry has turned down CBI's request for sanction to challenge the lower court's order of acquitting Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi in a disproportionate assets case. .....
  • Group opposed to anti-faith bills
    • by Afternoon Despatch & Courier
      Maharashtra is about to pass a bill to take over all the temple trusts and to implement the Black Magic Act in the coming session Maharashtra is about to pass a bill to take over all the temple trusts and to implement the Black Magic Act in the coming session. An organisation which works for the safekeeping of the Hindu religion, Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) has been expressing strong opposition to the implementation of these laws. They have held protests several times in different places. Such a protest was staged near Parel railway station. .....
  • Fauji gaon: One caste, one creed, one passion
    • by Deepak Yadav
      Queries about tiny Khan Ahmadpur village along the Ambala-Yamunanagar highway are likely to be met with blank stares. Re-pharse the question-'Which way is Fauji Gaon?'-and pat comes the answer: "Only 40 km down this road. You can't miss it." .....
  • Where 'Private' is All Evil
    • by Paul Zacharia
      The story goes that Vivekananda got so disgusted with the caste system in Kerala that he called the place a madhouse. Today caste is no more a tool of social domination in Kerala. In fact, lower caste status is shrewdly used as a tool for social bargaining. But Kerala continues to be a sociological madhouse of unparalleled dimensions. For example, perhaps this is the only society in India where ideology has got so intertwined with culture that people have ceased to understand the difference. .....
  • An Epic Narrative
    • by Sugata Srinivasaraju
      The New Linguistic Survey of India (NLSI), scheduled to take off in April 2007, is, in terms of operational imagination, as big as the census, but will be far more complex, nuanced and sensitive in content. Nowhere in the world has a project of this scale been conceived to track a nation's linguistic diversity. At the end of its 10-year cycle, the truth about the state of our languages will be out. It will be one of the most significant statements, in a century, on a prime identity-marker. .....
  • 'It's Meant To Sustain Harmony' (Interview with Virbhadra Singh)
    • by Outlook
      Q.: What are the compulsions that prompted you to enact the HP Freedom of Religion Act 2006?
      A.: Ours is a peaceful hill state where for ages people have been living in harmony. Of late, there were complaints from people regarding conversions and so the bill was brought before the Vidhan Sabha. We do not want any activity that will jeopardise social harmony. It is, however, unfortunate that vested interests have been trying to distort the purpose of the Act. .....
  • Cryptic Crossword
    • by Chander Suta Dogra
      It simply defies logic. Why should a Congress government enact a law banning conversions when it goes against the party's basic tenet of protecting minorities? But the Virbhadra Singh government in Himachal Pradesh has done just that. It has become the first Congress dispensation in the country to ban conversions. .....
  • The Subsoil Upward
    • by Debarshi Dasgupta
      Some claim the most ostensible change in Mandlana, a village near Narnaul, Haryana, is the frequent sighting of unveiled women. But behind this lies a more significant development as women gradually begin to assert their roles in a society that has for long been, and still is, the fiefdom of men. Take the example of Pushpa Devi, who put her foot down when her extended family urged her to terminate her pregnancy since it was a girl child. .....
  • Making Civic Sense
    • by Uday Mahurkar
      There is yet another entry in the list of makeovers this season, that of the small towns of Gujarat. Three years ago, Kadi in the Mehsana district, was just like an average Indian municipal town-dirty, disorganised and poorly kept in terms of amenities like roads, water and sewerage facilities. Home to around 56,000 persons, the town scored poorly on the organisation and finance fronts. .....
  • Holy Cooking
    • by M.G. Radhakrishnan
      Even in a matriarchal society like Kerala's, where men have a festival, Sabarimala, exclusively for them, could women be far behind? Yes, they have it too, in the form of Pongala which helped them better the men by entering the Guinness Book of Records last year for their sheer numbers. The festival at the Attukal Bhagvathi temple in Thiruvananthapuram is now officially recognised as the largest congregation of women who throng from all over the world on the last day of a 10-day ritual which takes place in March every year. .....
  • An Echo of Chipko
    • by Ambreesh Mishra
      In times of a sharpening man-versus-nature debate, they stand out as the most unlikely environmentalists. Armed with the humble keria lacca or lac insects, nearly 21,000 small farmers, mostly tribals, are almost maniacally saving the Palash tree, a vital cog in the bio-diversity of Vindhyachal and Satpura ranges of Madhya Pradesh. .....
  • WB govt delaying citizenship process: Taslima
    • by Rediff.com
      Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen on Monday made an impassioned plea to her "second home" India to grant her citizenship and blamed the government of West Bengal, her current residence in exile, for delaying the process. .....
  • Dream run by twin sisters from Nagpur slum
    • by Vivek Deshpande
      Theirs is a run-of-the-will story. Monica and Rohini Raut, 17-year-old twin sisters from Nagpur's Siraspeth slum and daughters of a truck driver, could well be India's new hope in running. The sisters won for the country its first individual medals in an international cross-country event. .....
  • It's a worst form of 'dictatorial terrorism'
    • by Expressindia.com
      Terming the sacking of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Iftikar Muhammad Chaudhry as a "judicial coup", Pakistan's Opposition parties and human rights groups fear it could be a move by President Pervez Musharraf to put off this year's expected general elections and impose Emergency. .....
  • Left out by history
    • by Inder Malhotra
      In 1987, while researching in Britain's Public Records Office (PRO) close to London's Kew Gardens, I was startled by the contents of a slim file. It was marked 'top secret', before its declassification, and related to the period when V.K. Krishna Menon - until then, as founder-president of the India League, a virtual representative in the UK of the country's freedom movement - had just taken over as independent India's first high commissioner to the Court of St. James. .....
  • JMM MP, gunned down on Holi, had taken on Naxals
    • by Manoj Prasad
      On August 9, 2003, when cadres of the Peoples' War Group raided Lango village, its residents led by Bhado Bandra, battling Naxalites under the banner of Nagrik Raksha Dal (NRD), fought back and lynched nine PWG men. The very next day, Sunil Mahato, the former Jharkhand Students' Union activist who had become JMM general secretary, showed up at Lango, praised the villagers and distributed sweets. .....
  • Only Arabs can stop Arabs from killing Arabs
    • by Thomas Friedman
      On Feb. 20, The Associated Press reported from Afghanistan that a suicide attacker disguised as a health worker blew himself up near "a crowd of about 150 people who had gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open an emergency ward at the main government hospital in the city of Khost." A few days later, at a Baghdad college, a female Sunni suicide bomber blew herself up amid students who were ready to sit for exams, killing 40 people. .....
  • SC seeks govt's explanation on shifting highways
    • by Sanjay K Singh
      The Supreme Court has sought an explanation from the UPA government on why the original route of the 366-km East-West Corridor of the National Highway Project, initiated by the NDA government, was changed. .....
  • Naxals? What Naxals?
    • by P R Ramesh
      By no stretch of imagination does Sunil Mahato fall into the category of an exploiter or a class enemy. He did not belong to the landed or the upper caste sections of Jharkhand who are blamed for the deprivation of the local tribals. .....
  • Anti-terror JV: India offers Pak the proof
    • by The Economic Times
      India on Tuesday handed over to Pakistan a photo of a suspected Pakistani national believed to be behind the attack on Samjhauta Express to drive home its point that acts of terror are sponsored by elements across the border. India had said that Pakistan's response to the proof provided by India will test the efficacy of the Indo-Pakistan joint terror mechanism. .....
  • The girl with a gold nose ring
    • by Kishwardesai
      For Justice Albie Sachs, one of South Africa's foremost proponents of human rights, it is an important case that highlights the country's regard for cultural diversity. When we see him seated amongst a full bench at South Africa's constitutional court, an impressively designed building located alongside the Old Fort Prison in Johannesburg evocative of one of the most grim struggles for freedom and equality, it is a measure of how seriously the law has taken Sunali's personal battle to retain her little gold nose ring in school. .....
  • A life lived for the community
    • by Rakshit Sonawane
      Till 1994, Kishore was one of those forgotten people who have to struggle to get the minimum necessities in life, and undergo humiliation and abuse from the rich and powerful who have everything in life handed to them on a platter. .....
  • Ansari's a different picture now
    • by Tanvir A Siddiqui
      Anybody who's seen Qutbuddin Ansari's picture will never forget his face. But his fame as the face of the 2002 Gujarat had come at a cost just short of his life. .....
  • Hope rides a tractor near suicide zone
    • by Anosh Malekar
      All these years, Gangaram Manaji Mulak had no reason to till his rain-fed farmland of 2.75 acres. "It was as good as fallow, providing only grass for my cattle," says the 55-year-old marginal farmer from Alandi, 25 km from Pune. .....
  • BJP yoga is bad news for schools, UPA yoga is mandatory?
    • by Shubhajit Roy
      The UPA government's key constituents, the Congress and the Left, were the most vocal critics when the BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh government, headed by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, started yoga classes, especially the 'Surya Namaskar' and 'Pranayam', in schools and colleges across the state. But the latest report tabled by a Parliamentary Standing Committee that includes high-profile Congress and Left MPs says the exact opposite. .....
  • Pakistan, America's limited partner
    • by The Indian Express
      Both President Bush and Pakistan's president, General Pervez Musharraf, have spoken of the strategic partnership between their two countries. Since Musharraf took power in a military coup and presides over a regime that may be described as, at best, a severely compromised democracy, the primary basis for that strategic affiliation is the fight against Al Qaeda. So it was a sign that the US-Pakistan partnership is under stress when Vice President Cheney, accompanied by the deputy director of the CIA, flew to Islamabad Monday to meet with Musharraf. .....
  • University of Washington takes up study on Ayurveda
    • by Sangeetha G
      Inspired by a "discarded" 20-year-old World Health Organisation-funded study which proved the efficacy of Ayurveda in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, the University of Washington has taken up a similar project in association with the Ayurvedic Trust in Coimbatore. .....
  • But where's the state?
    • by Husain Haqqani
      Developments of the last fortnight can be seen as a sort of balance sheet reflecting the strengths and weaknesses of the Pakistani state. Pakistan successfully tested the latest version of its long-range nuclear-capable missile, Shaheen II. It has the capability to hit major cities in India, according to Pakistan's military. For those who measure Pakistan's success in terms of a military balance against India, this addition to Pakistan's arsenal is a sign of the country's expanding strength. .....
  • Hindus feel the heat in Pakistan
    • by Riaz Sohail
      The kidnap and murder of a Hindu engineer in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh has increased the insecurity among fellow Hindus. .....
  • Marxist as communalist
    • by Chandan Mitra
      To use a slang expression, it can only be said that Marxists in Bengalhave lost their marbles. I shook my head in disbelief and despair onlearning that Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, toast of India'scapitalist cocktail circuit, has announced a plan to accord secondlanguage status to Urdu in West Bengal! .....
  • India, I Salute Thee
    • by Tariq A. Al-Maeena
      Over the Haj holidays, I surprised my kids with an announcement that I would be taking them to India for a short holiday. My distinct memories from having visited the country with my parents when I was a child had left me with impressions of cultures and civilizations that one reads in history books. And then there was the Taj Mahal, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. .....
  • Militants behead 'US spy', carve grisly message
    • by News.com.au
      Pakistani Taliban militants decapitated an Afghan accused of spying for US forces and scrawled the word "hypocrite" across his forehead, tribal officials said today. .....
  • Muslim Leader Sentenced for Backing Hamas
    • by Bernie O'Donnell
      The former Imam of a Rome Muslim congregation has been sentenced to more than seven and a half years in prison for providing monetary support to the terrorist organization Hamas. .....
  • Kab, Q aur kahan?
    • by Chandan Mitra
      Years ending with 7 have a mysterious tendency to destabilise governments in India. In 1967, the Congress lost power across a large number of States for the first time since elections began in 1952. Indira Gandhi's Government barely scraped through to retain power in Delhi, but within two years the party split, she was reduced to a minority and widespread political instability gripped the country, leading to the dissolution of the Lok Sabha in 1970. .....
  • Confront the regime
    • by The Pioneer
      By yielding to the Opposition's demand for a full discussion on the sly, though ham-handed, attempt to suppress news of Mr Ottavio Quattrocchi's detention in Argentina, where authorities complied with Interpol's Red Corner notice against the wanted Italian fugitive accused of receiving bribes in the Bofors field gun deal, the UPA Government has not necessarily done anybody a favour. .....
  • UK Muslims converting our girls: Hindus
    • by Rediff.com
      Hindu and Sikh leaders in the United Kingdom have accused radical Muslims of blackmailing young women from their communities into changing religion in groomed conversions on university campuses. .....
  • The Silence That Kills
    • by Thomas L. Friedman
      The A.P. reported from Afghanistan that a suicide attacker disguised as a health worker blew himself up near "a crowd of about 150 people who had gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open an emergency ward at the main government hospital in the city of Khost." A few days later, at a Baghdad college, a female Sunni suicide bomber blew herself up amid students who were ready to sit for exams, killing 40 people. .....
  • Tattered blood-green flag: Secularism in crisis
    • by Naeem Mohaiemen
      Last winter, I was filming a follow-up to an earlier project, Muslims or Heretics. With the first kuasha of the season had come, like clockwork, a new program of anti-Ahmadiya rallies. Khatme Nabuwat, now splintered into two groups, had announced yet another gherao of the Bokshibazaar mosque. .....
  • US hot pursuit has Pak sweating
    • by Kanchan Gupta
      As US Senators push for harsher American action against Pakistan for its failure to curb the neo-Taliban operating from its territory and a beleaguered Bush Administration begins to show signs of despair with its "stalwart ally" Gen Pervez Musharraf, alarm bells have begun to ring in Rawalpindi's Army House and Islamabad's corridors of power. .....
  • Not Reddy Raj but Christian Conspiracy
    • by Dr T Hanuman Chowdary
      At the launch of Akhilandra Kamma Samakhya in Hyderabad on 25 December 2006 a number of speakers especially the politically- minded, characterized the present government of Andhra Pradesh as Reddy -Raj. This is unfortunate and apparently untrue. The truth is otherwise. .....
  • Q revelations may raise a storm in India: Ex-envoy
    • by The Hindustan Times
      A former Indian ambassador to Sweden says that if Ottavio Quattrocchi is extradited to India to face trial, his revelations may "create a storm" as he was brought into the multi billion dollar Bofors gun deal at the behest of then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. .....
  • 'Communal' lessons for HS pupils
    • by Moumita Roy
      A Higher Secondary political science textbook describes the Bharatiya Janata Party as a "communal party" which "uses religion to spread its base." Uccha madhyamik rashtra bigyaner ruprekha (Part II) by Professor Nimai Pramanik, while explaining the country's party system on pages 145 and 146, says the BJP and some other parties were formed on the basis of religion to destroy the nation's communal harmony. .....
  • They'll Never Stop Saying... Sharia
    • by Marc Sheppard
      Rather than solving the problem, many have foolishly allowed Sharia's gradual unchecked spread in the names of diversity and tolerance. Unfortunately, as this dark-age jurisprudence is totally incompatible with any democratic society, those buying into this creeping multicultist folly are doing so at the peril of their own heritage and freedom. Of course, it comes as little surprise that anti-American countries like France have all but surrendered. .....
  • How to Debate with the Muslims
    • by Ibn Warraq
      Muslims in general have a tendency to disarm any criticisms of Islam and in particular the Koran by asking if the critic has read the Koran in the original Arabic, as though all the difficulties of their Sacred Text will somehow disappear once the reader has mastered the holy language and has direct experience, aural and visual, of the very words of God, to which no translation can do justice. .....
  • CBI given full freedom to pursue Q case: PM
    • by Sify News
      Rejecting the opposition charge that Government was going slow on the Quattrocchi extradition, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said CBI has been given "full freedom" to pursue the case and there will be no interference. .....
  • In the name of religious freedom
    • by Swami Dayananda Saraswati
      The controversy and alarmist rhetoric surrounding the recently passed Freedom of Religion Act in Himachal Pradesh can be addressed, to a large extent, simply by reading the Act. As with all other so-called anti-conversion Acts, there is no prohibition of professing and practicing one's religion anywhere in it. Yet, such acts have been routinely cited as measures that infringe upon religious freedom. Even a cursory reading shows that they ensure a measure of religious freedom. .....
  • Gateway to prosperity
    • by Alan T. Saracevic
      Tucked away on a leafy college campus in this booming city of 7 million is a fiery, 54-year-old professor who wants to change the way India does business. .....
  • Mahima dharma of Orissa goes global
    • by Akshay Kumar Sahoo
      A new cult, an offshoot of Hinduism, is growing in popularity in Orissa. Called the Mahima dharma (or Alekh dharma), the cult has followers in all sections of society, including the upper castes and the Dalits. .....
  • Imposing Islamic law
    • by Diana West
      I saw something eerie this week. It wasn't an apparition exactly, but rather a head-spinning blur of headlines about global jihad that, rather incredibly, began to take on the unmistakable shape of a British old school tie. .....
  • Contradictions to deal with
    • by Irfan Husain
      I was staying with old Turkish friends in their house on the Aegean sea when we learned about the lethal blast in a Quetta courtroom. My hostess was very concerned as she has been to Pakistan many times, and has visited the Balochistan capital as well. .....
  • Pakistan makes a deal with the Taliban
    • by Syed Saleem Shahzad
      The Pakistani establishment has made a deal with the Taliban through a leading Taliban commander that will extend Islamabad's influence into southwestern Afghanistan and significantly strengthen the resistance in its push to capture Kabul. .....
  • CBI announced Q capture after release
    • by Economic Times
      The Government seems to be deeper in trouble over the detention of Italian middleman Ottavio Quattrocchi after news that he secured bail from an Argentine court on February 23. After a newschannel flashed reports about his release , CBI director Vijay Shanker issued a statement claiming that the agency received news about the release of the Italian middleman on Monday evening. .....
  • Is Sonia Gandhi a dictator?
    • by IBNLive.com
      Is the Congress party a dictatorial party? That's the question that has been troubling me lately. For quite some time now, Indian politics has literally found itself divided along two poles. The so-called secular brigade led by the Congress and the alleged communal forces led by the BJP. If the Congress is accused of wooing the minorities, the BJP is charged of overplaying its hard Hindutva line. .....
  • CM refers to Modi success
    • by Biswajit Roy
      In a note to the Left Front partners, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has pointed out Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi's ability to attract investments, never mind his politics, and suggested that Bengal "should not sit idle". .....
  • BJP mulls privilege motion against Manmohan
    • by Yogesh Vajpeyi
      In a belated damage control exercise, the Government on Tuesday went on an overdrive to show that the CBI was "diligently" preparing for extradition of Bofors case accused Ottavio Quattrocchi, but failed to explain why it "concealed" information about his detention in Argentina on February 6 for so long. .....
  • Terrorist training in Mosques, Says Kerala Minister
    • by Haindava Keralam
      Elammaram Kareem, Industrial Minister of Kerala warns the parents of Muslim youth, to keep an eye on their sons if they are now a days going regularly to 'Subah' prayer in Mosque every day early morning. .....
  • Can we hold the peace?
    • by K P S Gill
      Five years after the horrific Godhra attack that triggered the riots in Gujarat, an ominous reminder of that event came in the shape of another incendiary attack on hapless rail users: The terrorist attack on the Delhi-Attari special train, packed with passengers to Pakistan. Evidently, efforts to polarise communities and to provoke communal violence have not ended. .....
  • Islamic terrorism in Tenkasi
    • by V Sundaram
      One need not go to the streets of Baghdad or Kabul to witness gruesome deeds of Islamic terrorism. On 17 December, 2006 at Tenkasi town in Tirunelveli district, a young Hindu Munnani leader Kumar Pandian and his friends Sekar were walking through a Muslim street in Tenkasi. They were way laid by two Muslims. .....


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