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- Reign of terror
- by RK Vij
The inhumane and merciless murder of Inspector Francis Induwar of Jharkhand
Police, by those claiming to operate hefty schemes like 'Janatana Sarkaar'
(people's government), has exposed their real face once again. .....
- Coping with rising China
- by K. Subrahmanyam
There is no reason to assume that India's rapidly rising neighbour, set
to become the world's largest economy in the next two decades, will not
play the normal game of nations. .....
- Tablighi Jamaat: Jihad's
Stealthy Legions
- by Alex Alexiev
Every fall, over a million almost identically dressed, bearded Muslim
men from around the world descend on the small Pakistani town of Raiwind
for a three-day celebration of faith. .....
- Haj subsidy: let Ulema
spell out its stand
- by Nawab Mohammed Abdul Ali
'Haj hijacked,' by Omar Khalidi, (The Hindu, Open Page, October 4, 2009)
was meaningful, interesting and informative. On several occasions I have
raised my voice against subsidy for the Haj. .....
- Tablighi Jamaat: An Indirect
Line to Terrorism
- by Fred Burton and Scott Stewart
Spanish police conducted a series of raids on apartment buildings, a mosque
and a prayer hall in Barcelona on Jan. 19, seizing bombmaking materials
and arresting 14 men who allegedly were planning to attack targets in
the city. .....
- Pak sends a message via
Kabul bomber
- by K.P. Nayar
A powerful but fortuitously aborted attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul
today was Pakistan's message to India that its Inter-Services Intelligence
(ISI) can hit Indian interests anytime, anywhere with impunity. .....
- Tibet's Independence
Requires Global Concerted Effort
- by Dr. Subhash Kapila
Nowhere is the perversity of China's emergent military power more manifested
than in the Chinese military occupation of Tibet, the Chinese militarization
of the Greater Tibet Region, and the ethnic and cultural genocide that
China has inflicted on the peaceful and spiritual people of Tibet. .....
- India stays film, rejects
NPT, CTBT
- by Nirmala Ganapathy
After the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), the US has renewed the
call for countries to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, but India,
for now, remains unfazed. .....
- Goodbye To The Hindu Ghettos
- by Tehelka
THE REFUGEES DON'T call them the Taliban but they say the tablighis used
to visit their homes every month. "They give you false promises of
wealth, of their daughters in marriage. .....
- The Bhindranwale moment
has come
- by Editorial
Remember the time in the late 70s and early 80s when the Khalistani terrorist
groups had held the entire nation to ransom? No one was free from fear.
They struck at will in most parts of the country, particularly in the
North. Aside from Punjab, the national capital bore the burnt of their
ire. .....
- Zero and Modern Numerals:
Islamic or Indian?
- by Islam Watch
Denouncing Pakistan's hostility towards American military assistance,
a powerful US lawmaker on Thursday said Islamabad should know that the
aid is not a gift but being given to them for a specific purpose. .....
- Pak should realise our
aids are not gifts: US lawmaker
- by The New Indian Express
Denouncing Pakistan's hostility towards American military assistance,
a powerful US lawmaker on Thursday said Islamabad should know that the
aid is not a gift but being given to them for a specific purpose. .....
- Death of a brand
- by Abhijit Dasgupta
It takes too many to tango in West Bengal. The promise of sunshine industries
and with it, development and jobs by the thousands, now remains only on
paper. .....
- The Tower Of Rabble
- by Prem Shankar Jha
LAST MONTH General Mahmud Durrani, former Pakistan ambassador to the US
and National Security Adviser to President Asif Ali Zardari delivered
the first RK Mishra Memorial Lecture in New Delhi. .....
- Charity funds: From mandirs
to mobiles
- by Shobhan Saxena
In medieval India, rich men would go to the temple, pray and leave quietly,
dropping a solid gold necklace at the deity's feet. .....
- Over the moon: A night
to pray, celebrate love
- by Bella Jaisinghani
This weekend, insomniacs and party animals may find company as hundreds
of people stay awake all night to celebrate Kojagiri Purnima over Saturday
and Sunday. .....
- Gypsy tunes and ghungroo
beats
- by Sharmila Ganesan-Ram
Enlightenment can sometimes happen under a bridge. Sharmini Tharmaratnam
was holidaying beneath one such steel rainbow in France many years ago
when a group of gypsies from various countries gathered there for an annual
celebration. .....
- Blank cheque for Pakistan
- by Editorial
It is absolutely shocking that the Obama Administration, in spite of all
its talk of evolving a new, inclusive strategy to deal with Pakistan,
has decided to dole out more American dollars to Islamabad without any
strings attached. .....
- India has a moral commitment
on Tibet-II
- by Ram Madhav
For almost one decade the Russia-China talks remained deadlocked over
this 'principle' issue. But with the Soviets not budging the Chinese had
to climb down and in 1983 they finally agreed to not insist on the principle
anymore. .....
- AQ Khan letter reveals
Pak N-web
- by The Statesman
In a damning revelation of Pakistan's nuclear proliferation, its disgraced
atomic scientist AQ Khan admitted, in a letter written six years ago,
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- Self-rule fundamentally
bad and retrograde
- by Hari Om
People's Democratic Party leaders, including Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and
his daughter Mehbooba Mufti, have unleashed a no-holds-barred propaganda
blitz to enlist the people's support in favour of their self-rule doctrine.
.....
- Orissa gay activists' thumbs
up to Delhi high court ruling
- by Akshaya Kumar Sahoo
He did not have any qualms about declaring himself a gay while making
his speech at a seminar on Sexual Rights and Health in Bhubaneswar. It
seemed he felt proud in disclosing his sexual preference in the packed
auditorium of a city hotel. .....
- 'Gandhian' field trips
- by Tavleen Singh
Every Gandhi Jayanthi, I find myself wondering if I should add my two
bits to the reams of commemorative comment that Gandhiji's birthday inspires.
.....
- India powers Kabul
- by Pranab Dhal Samanta
Amid all the political wrangling over the presidential elections in Afghanistan
and sharp differences over the military campaign among major countries,
India quietly crossed an important milestone in its diplomatic efforts
as it successfully completed a four-year effort to build a 202-km transmission
line to bring electricity to power-starved Kabul. .....
- China's place in the world
- by The Indian Express
FOR a country that prides itself on its "peaceful rise", it
was an odd way to celebrate a birthday. The People's Republic of China,
marked its diamond jubilee on October 1st with a staggering display of
military muscle-flexing (see article). .....
- Mhetre's brother arrested
- by Bakhtiyar Tangsal
Police on Saturday night arrested Shankar Satlingappa Mhetre, the brother
of Maharashtra Minister of State for Rural Development, Siddaram Mhetre,
from Belgaum on the Maharashtra-Karnataka border in connection with the
murder of a BJP worker in Shegao village of Akkalkot Assembly constituency
a few days ago. .....
- Is UPA warming up to Taliban?
- by Kanchan Gupta
The venerable Wall Street Journal, which still takes the business of journalism
seriously, has carried an interesting news story in its Wednesday's edition.
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- Engaging a Musical Prodigy
(Interview With Aarti Nayak)
- by Rashmi Rao
Trained by her father Pandit Ramrao Nayak - a Hindustani classical musician
par excellence, Aarti Nayak, truly a "beauty with brains", is
undoubtedly a rising star in the world of Hindustani Classical Music.
.....
- Impressive but joyless
celebration
- by Swapan Dasgupta
The most interesting feature of the 60th anniversary jamboree in Beijing
last Friday was its reportage. In a seven-column, front-page report, the
editor of The Hindu (who was favoured with "ringside seats"
of the choreographed event) was bowled over by the proceedings. .....
- Beware of Chinese deception
game
- by Kingshuk Nag
It is a pure coincidence, but there is a powerful symbolism in it. Even
as China celebrates the 60th anniversary of communism with fireworks and
grand display of military prowess, Indian citizens from Jammu & Kashmir
are being denied visa stampings on their passports by the Chinese. .....
- Armed Jihadi training camps
in Kozhikode
- by Haindava Keralam
See the snaps attached of one place, which is located in Parappally, a
costal area of Quilandy Taluk of Kozhikode (calicut) District. .....
- Pak not willing to prevent
infiltration into J&K: Antony
- by The Pioneer
Defence Minister A K Antony on Wednesday accused Pakistan of "not
willing" to act against terrorists infiltrating into Jammu and Kashmir
from its side of the border, even after the Mumbai attacks last November.
.....
- Go to jail or join jihad
against India: ISI tells surrendered Taliban
- by Vishwa Mohan
In a new shift in tactics, Pakistan is planning to push as many as 60
"surrendered" Taliban into Jammu and Kashmir to become part
of the "jihad" against India. The ISI is said to have offered
the extremists the option of either going to jail or crossing the Line
of Control. .....
- Vedic wedding in city for
US-born couples
- by Viju B
Amy Pearce blushed into her pallu as Rohini Kumar, parikarmi (master of
ceremonies), chanted a Sanskrit mantra and then translated it into English:
"This means you will have to take good care of all your cows.'' He
then added helpfully: "Hope you have many cows in your backyard.''
.....
- The Seventies, Once Again
- by Sudhir Kakar
The late 1960s and early 70s were witness to an unusual sight: a wave
of revolutionary protests by young people all over the world. What made
this revolutionary militancy remarkable were two factors. One, that it
was independent of the ideologies and social structures of different countries.
.....
- My comrade vs your comrade
- by Saubhik Chakrabarti
What have India's Communist and Communist trade unions and said about
the Balco accident involving a project awarded to a Chinese company? Guess
what they would have said if the company was American. .....
- Q, curiouser
- by Editorial
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego" was a popular computer game
in the '80s, starring a trench-coated international fugitive, and meant
to teach children geography as she popped up in various parts of the world.
.....
- Partners in Proliferation
- by G Parthasarathy
The controversy over whether the Pokhran tests of 1998 were a "fizzle"
is nothing new. Prime Minister Morarji Desai reportedly asserted that
Pokhran I in 1974 was nothing more than a large explosion of conventional
devices .....
- When garba picked up cudgels
against British
- by Ashish Vashi
"Oh Goddess, why do the British rule us so ruthlessly? They have
exploited us and looted us. They have also imprisoned Gandhiji. But, Oh
merciful Goddess, we are not afraid. We will destroy the shaky pillars
of the British Empire; let the earth be drenched with red blood."
.....
- US disaster victims take
up yoga to combat stress
- by Ashley D'Mello
The US has turned to yoga and meditation to help natural disaster victims
get over the trauma and rebuild their shattered confidence. And this exercise
seems to have yielded a positive result as well. .....
- From Kabul to Colaba
- by Y P Rajesh
Over the last few weeks, the gridlocked roads of Mumbai have occasionally
been greeted by the rather incongruous sight of an Armoured Personnel
Carrier (APC), parked near a busy junction or tailing a Ganesha immersion
procession. .....
- Haj hijacked
- by Omar Khalidi
India is among the top 10 countries sending most Hajis. Until early 1960s
when Bombay was connected to Jeddah by air, most pilgrims went by boats
run by Mogul Line Ltd., a British-controlled company. .....
- Hindutva derives from Sanatana
Dharma
- by Sandhya Jain
The land stretching from the Himalayas in the north to the Indian Ocean
in the south, the land created by the gods, is known as Hindustan. .....
- Terrorist sentenced to
death in Jammu and Kashmir
- by ThaIndian.com
In the first ever death sentence pronounced on a terrorist in Jammu and
Kashmir, a court in Rajouri district Thursday sentenced Mohammad Younus
alias Amir Khan, convicted for the murder of five members of a Hindu family,
to be hanged to death. .....
- Billions in US aid never
reached Pakistan army
- by Kathy Gannon
The United States has long suspected that much of the billions of dollars
it has sent Pakistan to battle militants has been diverted to the domestic
economy and other causes, such as fighting India. .....
- India rejects OIC move to appoint Kashmir envoy
- by TwoCircles.net
India Saturday condemned the "regrettable" move by the Organisation
of Islamic Conference (OIC) to name a special envoy for Kashmir, saying
it has no locus standi in India's internal affairs. .....
- Let's Not Abandon Afghan
Women
- by Tina Brown
America may have developed Intervention Fatigue, but are we really considering
throwing Afghan women back into the darkness after their return to freedom?
.....
- Vedic wedding in city for
US-born couples
- by Viju B
Amy Pearce blushed into her pallu as Rohini Kumar, parikarmi (master of
ceremonies), chanted a Sanskrit mantra and then translated it into English:
"This means you will have to take good care of all your cows.''
He then added helpfully: "Hope you have many cows in your backyard.''
.....
- Egypt purges niqab from
schools and colleges
- by Adrian Blomfield
Egypt has embarked on a campaign to restrict the most conservative forms
of Muslim dress after one of Islam's most respected clerics ordered a
schoolgirl to remove her niqab, or veil. .....
- Two arrested for throwing
beef at idol
- by Staff Writer
Two persons were arrested for allegedly throwing beef at an idol of Goddess
Laxmi at a community puja pandal in Orissa's Sundargarh district today,
police said. .....
- Discrimination or Equal
Opportunity - 1
- by Rakesh Sinha
In 2005, after nearly six decades of freedom, the ruling United Progressive
Alliance regime suddenly instituted the high powered Sachar Committee.
.....
- Ishrat case: Govt for new
probe
- by Uday Mahurkar
In what is seen as a major blow to the customary Centre-State cooperation
on issues to do with national security and a shot in the arm of the forces
of disintegration in the country the UPA-led government has done a shameful
.....
- BJP seizes on Krishna's
Taliban 'remarks'
- by Times News Network
Dubbing foreign minister S M Krishna's alleged statement on the Taliban
"irresponsible and disturbing'', BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad
said, "He must explain what he means by dialogue and settlement with
the Taliban. .....
- Bigamy, Conversion and
Women's Rights In India
- by Deepali Gaur Singh
A reasonably popular TV show in India has a highly respected retired senior
police officer holding an informal civil court that attempts to dispense
with disputes - mostly matrimonial .....
- Defeating terrorists requires
a real commitment
- by Thomas L. Friedman
That is what the Dallas Morning News reported about Hosam Maher Husein
Smadi, the 19-year-old Jordanian accused of trying to blow up a downtown
Dallas skyscraper .....
- Sinecure for Somnath
- by Editorial
The Congress's desire to reward Mr Somnath Chatterjee with a suitable
sinecure is understandable. As Lok Sabha Speaker between 2004 and 2009,
Mr Chatterjee was unconscionably prejudiced. ....
- The threat of 'stealth
jihad'
- by Frank J. Gaffney Jr.
A Denver airport shuttle driver from Afghanistan who plotted to blow up
subway trains in New York City. A Jordanian who tried to destroy one of
Dallas' tallest skyscrapers. An American who thought he was detonating
a truck bomb aimed at a federal courthouse in Springfield, Ill.. ....
- Pakistan's new Taliban
chief threatens revenge
- by The Times of India
Pakistan's new Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud has met journalists, ending
speculation about his death, and vowed to avenge drone attacks and the
killing of his predecessor Baitullah Mehsud. ....
- New Wardrobe Brings Freedom
to Women in Swat
- by Sabrina Tavernise
When the Taliban took control here in February and forced women into burqas,
an epidemic of clumsiness swept this city. Women began banging into lamp
posts. Nurses fumbled needles. Many simply stopped going out altogether.
....
- PM has bailed out Mr Q
- by A Surya Prakash
Those who think that the latest initiative of the Manmohan Singh Government
to withdraw the criminal charges against Ottavio Quattrocchi, the Italian
businessman who knocked off a commission of $ 7.343 million when we bought
field guns for our Army in the mid-1980s. ....
- October 1: Day Of Mourning
In Xinjiang & Tibet
- by B. Raman
According to reliable source reports from Tibet and Xinjiang, October
1, 2009, which marked the 60the anniversary of the founding of the People's
Republic of China, was observed as a day of mourning by the Uighurs and
the Tibetans in Xinjiang and Tibet. ....
- India stays firm, rejects
NPT, CTBT
- by Nirmala Ganapathy
After the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), the US has renewed the
call for countries to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, but India,
for now, remains unfazed. .....
- Modern education for Muslim
children still a distant dream
- by Akhilesh Suman/M Madhusudan
Two years since it was first conceptualised and now taken up afresh, the
plan to impart modern (non-theological) education to nearly six lakh Muslim
children studying in madrasas across the country still does not seem to
have become a reality. And it looks unlikely in the near future. .....
- Devi turns 100
- by Damayanti Datta
For one hundred years, the devi and the asura have been battling it out
under one roof. For one hundred years, she has been decked up in milky
white, created by three generations of the same family. .....
- The austerity charade
- by Shankkar Aiyar with Shyamlal Yadav
Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet. So prayed Saint Augustine
as he wrestled with carnal longing in his quest for salvation. The prayers
could well have been that of the Indian National Congress. Dressed in
a fig leaf etched with sympathy for farmers facing drought, the party
has declared a "state of austerity". .....
- The nowhere people
- by The nowhere people
Along the Rajasthan border districts of Jaisalmer, Bikaner and Barmer,
a replay of the tragedy that visited the subcontinent over 60 years ago
is in progress as migrants from Pakistan escape persecution. This time,
the Partition-type exodus has a different history. .....
- His Feudal Lordship?
- by Sugata Srinivasaraju, Chandrani
Banerjee
A slow but definite polarisation on caste lines has begun in the legal
fraternity and outside with regard to the Justice P.D. Dinakaran disproportionate
assets case, now inextricably linked to his elevation as a judge of the
Supreme Court. .....
- Growth By Geometric Proportions
- by Outlook
In Arakkonam, Justice Dinakaran's hometown, his father, Paul Ponnuswamy,
is remembered as a drawing and physical training teacher at the now defunct
Hindu High School, not as a landlord. .....
- RIP Bofors scandal
- by Editorial
The denouement was a foregone conclusion, but nonetheless it did not fail
to surprise when it happened by way of the Union Government informing
the Supreme Court that it has decided not to prosecute Italian middleman
Ottavio Quattrocchi any further for his role in the Bofors bribery scandal.
.....
- US doublespeak on proliferation
- by G Parthasarathy
On July 8, 1996 the World Court held that states possessing nuclear weapons
have not just a need, but an obligation to commence negotiations leading
to nuclear disarmament. .....
- Now, Kashmiri Gujjars invite
Rahul Gandhi to their homes
- by The Pioneer
Having heard about Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi moving without
security, staying in huts of the poor and downtrodden in Uttar Pradesh
and even having a bath in the open, the Gujjars in Jammu and Kashmir have
urged him to visit them and share the experiences of their nomadic life.
.....
- Parts of ISI supporting
Taliban, protecting Mullah Omar:Report
- by The Pioneer
Parts of ISI are supporting Taliban and protecting their chief Mullah
Omar and other militant leaders in Pakistan's Quetta city, where US officials
have discussed sending commandos to capture or kill the terrorists, a
media report said in London on Sunday. .....
- Where is the ultra nationalist
BJP?
- by Hari Om
It was on May 2 this year that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told media
persons that he and former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf had virtually
reached an agreement over Kashmir . .....
- Caste and Race: UNHRC's
hidden agenda
- by Saurav Basu
The move by the UNHRC to treat caste-based discrimination as a human rights
violation is an irresponsible act of subverting Indian democratic and
cultural institutions. .....
- Jihadis are celebrating
- by Editorial
The report, based on exhaustive investigations, published in The New York
Times on how the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba is alive and kicking in Pakistan, how
its cadre continue to receive weapons and training, how the linkages between
this Islamic terrorist .....
- A Doctor for Disease, a
Shaman for the Soul
- by Patricia Leigh Brown
The patient in Room 328 had diabetes and hypertension. But when Va Meng
Lee, a Hmong shaman, began the healing process by looping a coiled thread
around the patient's wrist, Mr. Lee's chief concern was summoning the
ailing man's runaway soul. .....
- How not to remember Bapu
- by Madhu Purnima Kishwar
It is because his own Party stopped taking Gandhi seriously that most
young people in India grow up thinking of him as a pious crank, used only
as a meaningless icon, writes Madhu Purnima Kishwar. .....
- Dhimwit Case Study: Karen
Armstrong on the Nakhla Raid
- by Ibn Kammuna
A non-Muslim member of a free society, who unwittingly abets the stated
cause of Islamic domination. A dhimwit is always quick to extend sympathy
to the very enemy that would take away his or her own freedom (or life)
if given the opportunity. And Karen Amstrong fit this bill perfectly.
Find out why? .....
- The Taliban and Salarzais
- by Farhat Taj
I was in Pakistan in August and had the opportunity to meet the leaders
of the anti-Taliban lashkar (volunteer army) of Bajaur's Salarzai tribe.
I am honoured that upon my request they travelled from Bajaur to meet
me in Nowshehra and shared with me information about their anti-Taliban
struggle. .....
- India's Jurassic nest dug
up in Tamil Nadu
- by Radha Venkatesan
Geologists in Tamil Nadu have stumbled upon a Jurassic treasure trove
buried in the sands of a river bed. Sheer luck led them to hundreds of
fossilized dinosaur eggs, perhaps 65 million years old, underneath a stream
in a tiny village in Ariyalur district. .....
- Hindu Americans facing growth,
challenge
- by Michael Paulson
On Saturday afternoon the reporters attending the annual convention of
the Religion Newswriters Association boarded a pair of buses from downtown
Minneapolis out to Maple Grove, a small community in the northwest corner
of greater Minneapolis-St. .....
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