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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. .....
  • 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, .....
  • 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. .....
  • 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. .....
  • 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 .....
  • 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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