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December Month Articles
- Intolerance is a two-way
street
- by Sudheendra Kulkarni
Underground and secretly maintained Krishna temples in Iran? Yes.
And I'll tell you why I am beginning this column on the raging global
debate on the recent Swiss ban on the construction of new minarets by
recalling a stunning personal experience in Iran.
....
- On 26/11, Headley was in
LeT control room in Pak
- by The Times of India
US-born terror suspect David Headley had not only actively played a role
in conducting reconnaissance of targets in Mumbai but was also present
in a control unit in Pakistan along with the masterminds of the attacks
to guide 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists to carry out strikes in the megapolis.
....
- Sadhvi was illegally interrogated
and detained by ATS: lawyer
- by Rediff.com
The lawyer of Malegaon blast accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur has claimed
that the Anti-Terrorist Squad had detained and interrogated her illegally
last year, as a woman cannot be summoned to a police station for mere
questioning. ....
- Conquering Afghanistan:
What the West can learn from India
- by Rakesh Krishnan
If there's one thing that really gets me worked up, it is this: the western
media keeps peddling the fairy tale that no power - from Alexander 2300
years ago to Britain in the 19th century and Russia 30 years ago - was
able to conquer Afghanistan. ....
- Let's not absolve Rao
- by Prafull Goradia
P Chidambaram's reply to the debate on the Liberhan Commission's report
in Parliament is short on facts. According to him, it was PV Narasimha
Rao's 'wrong political judgement' that led to the demolition of the Babri
structure. That's not true. Rao knew what he was doing, and his 'inaction'
was not without intent ....
- 2 months on, no breakthrough
in Jammu youth's custodial killing
- by Mohit Kandhari
More than two months have passed since mortal remains of Rajneesh Sharma
were immersed in the holy waters of Ganges on his last journey but the
lethargic Omar Abdullah Government has failed to unravel the mystery behind
his alleged custodial killing. ....
- 27/ 11 & Hadley
- by N.V.Subramanian
India has to ask tough questions of the US on the Bombay carnage, and
cannot withdraw troops from J and K, says N.V.Subramanian. ....
- Smokers' Corner: One-unit-faith
- by Nadeem F. Paracha
Recently, while giving a speech to the Peshawar police, General Ashfaq
Parvez Kayani said that no one could separate Islam from Pakistan. One
wonders what prompted the army chief to digress, and start assuring his
audience about Pakistan's Islamic credentials ....
- Why is India against Israel,
but for Sudan?
- by MandeepSTiwana, Maja Daruwala
The 61 st anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights on December 10 provides occasion to reflect on the attitude
of various UN member-states towards one of the most important human rights
institutions in the world ....
- Birth of a nation
- by Inder Malhotra
On March 17, 1971 Indira Gandhi was sworn in as prime minister for the
third time. By then she had established her supremacy in both the Congress
and the country after a long ....
- Baruah is Islamicised (Interview
with G.K. Pillai)
- by Payal Saxena
Home Secretary G.K. Pillai is in a celebratory mood. The arrest of ULFA
chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, many feel, will go a long way towards bringing
peace to the troubled northeast. . ....
- What Was David Headley's
Role in the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks?
- by Jyoti Thottam
The case against David Headley, 49, the American accused of helping plan
the November 2008 terrorist strikes in Mumbai, fills in several of the
missing links about how the attacks were planned and executed with such
precision. ....
- The Battle For Pakistan
- by Stephen Brown
In his speech at West Point last week, President Obama indicated that
no amount of extra troops would offset the Afghan Taliban's ability to
retreat and regroup in their Pakistani cross-border sanctuaries. ....
- UPA now admits Saraswati
existed
- by Rajesh Singh & Santanu Banerjee
In a significant shift from its earlier stand that probes conducted so
far showed no trace of the mythical river, the Union Government has recently
admitted that scientists have discovered water channels indicating "beyond
doubt" the existence of the "Vedic Saraswati.". ....
- Ahmed refuses to light
lamp
- by Deccan Chronicle
Union minister of state for railways and Muslim League leader E. Ahmed
refused to light a kuthuvilakku, a traditional Tamil custom for observing
auspicious occasions, at a national seminar. ....
- Paranormal Flexibility
- by MV Kamath
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released a report on Wednesday
that is bound to stir conversation about the increasingly complicated
cacophony of spirituality in America - a mash-up of traditional faiths,
fantasy and mythology. ....
- Politics and the art of
making money
- by MV Kamath
Andhra Pradesh has been liberally spending government money for construction
of churches and mosques and subsidies to Christian and Muslim pilgrimages
and grants for marriages among the 'minority communities. ....
- Nobody killed three men
who were murdered
- by Arun Ram
On May 9, 2007, a mob attacked the Madurai office of Tamil Daily 'Dinakaran'
owned by Kalanidhi Maran. They smashed windows, computers and furniture,
and set fire to the building. ....
- Why their IT hates our
IT
- by Ashok Malik
Speaking at a conference in Delhi this past week, Home Secretary GK Pillai
warned of the threat from terrorism to India's flagship Information Technology
companies. ....
- Ties that bind: Lashkar
and the global jihad
- by Praveen Swami
The Lashkar-e-Taiba, it is asserted, is a product of the India-Pakistan
contestation in Jammu and Kashmir and has little interest in targeting
the West. Both claims are ill-founded. ....
- New Incidents Test Immunity
to Terrorism on U.S. Soil
- by Scott Shane
As the years passed after Sept. 11, 2001, without another major attack
on American soil and with no sign of hidden terrorist cells, many counterterrorism
specialists reached a comforting conclusion: Muslims in the United States
were not very vulnerable to radicalization. ....
- Every Word For A Price
- by Neelabh Mishra
It was during the Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh assembly elections of 2007
that the blatant sale of news space by some Hindi and Gujarati newspapers
to political parties and candidates in the form of election coverage packages
came to be noticed. ....
- News You Can Abuse
- by Anuradha Raman
In the cynical times that we live in, rumours of an MP or an MLA paying
money to a newspaper or a television channel to elicit favourable news
coverage might perhaps raise no more than an eyebrow. ....
- Please Do Not Sell
- by Vinod Mehta
Indian media doesn't do introspection. We recommend it to others-MPs,
political parties, militants, judges, scientists.... They are all advised
to look deep inside their own trade and clean up the rot. ....
- Sarkozy to Muslims in France:
Will protect you, but...
- by Edward Cody
Faced with swelling unease over the place of Muslim immigrants in France,
President Nicolas Sarkozy called on Tuesday for tolerance among native
French people, but warned that arriving Muslims must embrace Europe's
historical values and avoid "ostentation or provocation" in
the practice of their religion. ....
- Fast food for the soul
- by Justine Hardy
It is a staggering irony that we are now in the age of gigabyte gurus.
The way of the Gurukul, the long pupillage of a child with a guru to establish
if the child was even a worthy vessel of Vedic learning, has now been
usurped by the Coca Cola factor. ....
- Terror has new name: Jama'at-ul-Mujahideen
- by Mateen Hafeez
Intelligence agencies are working on inputs that members of the Jama'at-ul-Mujahideen
(Bangladesh) may be in Mumbai and Hyderabad to work on terror plots in
these two cities. ....
- Obama's Second Af-Pak policy:
A Fallacy in Composition
- by Ramtanu Maitra
On Dec.1 at West Point Academy, US President Barack Obama presented his
latest Afghanistan-Pakistan policy - the result of an extensive review
and a policy that would lead to the "end of Afghanistan war,"
he promised. ....
- Will Europe put its foot
down?
- by Hege Storhaug
The Swiss vote against the construction of any more Islamic minarets has
forced Europe, increasingly awash with Muslim immigrants, to ask itself
some difficult questions: How many minarets can Europe tolerate before
its strong sense of communal connection is dissolved? What will happen,
then, to democracy's liberal values? ....
- HC calls for law to check
'love jehad'
- by Shaju Philip
Calling the state government to enact a legislation to prevent forceful
conversions, the Kerala High Court on Wednesday observed that such incidents
under the pretext of love were rampant in certain parts of the state.
....
- Want Press Coverage? Give
Me Some Money
- by Paul Beckett
Ajay Goyal is a serious, independent candidate contesting for a Lok Sabha
seat in Chandigarh.
Never heard of him? Neither, probably, have a lot of people in Chandigarh
because when it came to getting press coverage for his campaign he was
faced with a simple message: If you want press, you have to pay. ....
- Fear of a Saffron Telangana
- by Naresh Nunna
Persisitent calls for a separate telangna has forced minority muslims
to firmly oppose the demand, as a history of oppression haunts, says Naresh
Nunna ....
- Portrait sculpture of Krishnadeva
Raya found at Kancheepuram temple
- by T.S. Subramanian
With the interest in the reign of Vijayanagara emperor Krishnadeva Raya
reviving in the context of 2009 being the 500th year of his coronation,
a small, beautiful portrait sculpture of Krishnadeva Raya (1509-1529)
has come to light in the Varadaraja Swamy temple at Kancheepuram. ....
- Secularism's rage boys
- by Balbir K. Punj
The dormant Ram Janmabhoomi issue is back in the limelight thanks to the
Liberhan Commission's report. The report will of course be long remembered
for its howlers and contradictions. But it has also brought into focus
the warts that continue to distort the face of ageless, pluralistic Indian
society in the name of 'secularism'. ....
- FBI grills US men held
in Pakistan for seeking 'jihad'
- by The Times of India
A group of detained young Americans were grilled by the FBI in Pakistan
after reports that they had tried to join Islamist militant groups and
travel to the northwest Taliban heartland, officials said on Friday. ....
- Virtual darshan renders
distance irrelevant to worship
- by Ajitha Karthikeyan
For Abhishek, a software engineer, this year's birthday was very special.
Sitting in his drawing room at his apartment in Texas, he felt quite at
home as he watched a special archana' being performed in his name at the
city's famous Vadapalani Murugan temple, which he has frequented as a
boy ....
- Caste in a new mould
- by Lucia Michelutti
The New breed of cosmopolitan provincial politicians remains configured
by caste lines, if only to retain existing benefits rather than gain new
ones in a even more polarized nation ....
- If you disown Rao, disown
PM too: Amar
- by The Indian Express
During the debate on Liberhan Commission report in the Upper House, Samajwadi
Party leader Amar Singh attacked both the BJP and the Congress and his
sarcastic barbs had BJP MPs on their feet. ....
- Musharraf bullied into
supporting war on terror
- by Dawn
Former Chief of General staff Shahid Aziz says that Pervez Musharraf was
bullied into supporting the US in the war on terror. He says the decision
to support America was taken unilaterally before a crucial corps commanders
meeting took place. .....
- Terror training comes from
Pak: US
- by Deccan Chronicle
Expressing concern over series of arrests of US nationals as terror suspects,
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said much of the training and direction
for terrorists comes from Pakistan and the border area with Afghanistan.
.....
- Muslim PM only if community
backs Ram temple: Bal Thackeray
- by The Times of India
Joining issue with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remark that a
Muslim can become the prime minister provided he is the most capable person
for it, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday said to qualify for
the top job the community will first have to support the Ram temple in
Ayodhya.. .....
- Mosques as barracks, minarets
as bayonets...
- by Kanchan Gupta
Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was being faithful
to his creed when he declared, "Mosques are our barracks, minarets
our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." . .....
- Perception of reality
- by Sunanda K Datta-Ray
BBC radio suddenly broadcast a programme on Vande Mataram the other morning.
If that was surprising, the angle the BBC chose was even more so. .....
- Gulled by Gul
- by Arnaud de Borchgrave
From his former incarnation as strategic adviser to Pakistan's politico-religious
parties, the one-time Pakistani intelligence chief Hamid Gul has resurfaced
as de facto minister of propaganda and disinformation for the Taliban
insurgents. .....
- France follows Swiss lead.
No more praying in streets.
- by Eeyore
Some Paris neighbourhoods have been taken over Fridays with large numbers
of Muslims clearly establishing Islamic primacy by taking over huge sections
of streets by 'praying' in them in such a manner that no other traffic
is possible. .....
- Backward Muslims protest
denial of burial
- by Anand Mohan Sahay
A section of Muslims in Bihar are up in arms against the more affluent
and powerful section of Muslims for denying them entry into graveyards
on the grounds of lower caste status. .....
- 'Philippines expert, LTTE
cadres trained Indian Maoists'
- by Vivek Deshpande
Maoist groups in India have been known to collaborate with their counterparts
across the border in Nepal and also occasionally with sympathisers elsewhere
in South Asia but a senior Naxal leader who surrendered .....
- Ayurveda cooking is new
buzz in mom's kitchen
- by Nandita Sengupta
It's back to the spice route in more ways than one. Taking grandma's 'gharelu
nuskhe' (home remedies) to a grander level, ayurvedic cooking - -all about
the right mix of spices and foods-is the new buzz in the kitchen. .....
- 'Global jihadis may target
India'
- by Political Bureau
THE US on Friday warned that transnational jihadists, who are coordinating
their terror plans, could target India. In a testimony to the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, US defence secretary Robert Gates said al Qaida is
providing information and giving other logistical support to LeT to launch
terror attacks in India. .....
- 'Poor' Bihar boasts of
300 crorepati babus
- by Faizan Ahmad
A staggering 300 Bihar government employees-earning modest salaries-are
crorepatis! If this isn't shocking enough, here's more: All but two of
the 300 continue to hold on to their secure-as also lucrative-jobs despite
long stints in jails. .....
- Joint operation begins
against Kuki militants
- by Staff Reporter
Sonai Police arrested 75-year-old village headman Seikhulian Singsong
suspecting that he had links with Kuki militants who had allegedly attacked
the 15th Indian Reserve Police (IRP) battalion outpost at Checkerchum
recently. .....
- Was Headley at Pushkar
to plan attack on Jews?
- by The Times of India
Intelligence bodies, including a National Investigation Agency (NIA) team,
are pursuing specific leads that hint that Pakistan born American David
Coeman Headley had done a recce of the Bed-chabad .....
- Pak fabricating evidence
on Balochistan: Krishna
- by The Times of India
India on Thursday accused Pakistan of "fabricating evidence"
and rejected as "unfounded" charges of fomenting insurgency
in Balochistan and ruled out composite talks till Pakistan took action
against 26/11 culprits. .....
- New faces of terror
- by Mayank Chhaya, Sandeep Unnithan
Apart from Mumbai, the North American duo of Pakistani origin sought other
targets in India. The worry is more attacks may have been set in motion.
.....
- Claim shame
- by Swati Mathur and Nishika Patel
Their lives were changed forever by one terror attack. But now it is the
pain of delayed compensation that prolongs the misery of Mumbai's terror
victims. .....
- The Web: Eight Legs, Nine
Lives
- by Amir Mir
When a band of terrorists swooped down on Mumbai on the night of November
26 last year, leaving behind a trail of death and a devastated metropolis,
their act of violence. .....
- Post-26/11, no of jawans
enlisting in state doubles
- by Kartikeya
Until now, we have seen candle-light vigils and peace marches, debates
and prayer meetings. But there has been another response to the 26/11
terror attack on Mumbai that has gone largely unnoticed. .....
- Praise the LORD
- by Anushree Majumdar
Prayers have worked for 23-year-old Vidhi Sharma. The psychology student
from Delhi University, who has been singing since she was two .....
- Tales from modern Consumer
India
- by Rama Bijapurkar
This columnist perpetually wrestles with the question of what the face
of modern Consumer India is and will be like. .....
- Looking forward to meeting
Obama: Dalai
- by Suresh Khatta
The Dalai Lama on Saturday said he was hoping to meet US President Barack
Obama early next year to discuss the issue of Tibet's autonomy. .....
- Jail never a bar for terror
mastermind
- by Ritu Sarin
On the night of November 28, 2008, as the siege on Mumbai was painfully
winding to a close, a call was made to then external affairs minister
Pranab Mukherjee from the 'President of Pakistan'. .....
- FBI landing with details
of Rana, Headley
- by Pranab Dhal Samanta
Armed with assurances from US President Barack Obama himself, National
Security Advisor M K Narayanan today disclosed that a high-level FBI team
will be in India within a week with detailed information and data on the
Headley-Rana investigations. .....
- 'Truth will come out one
day'
- by The Hindustan Times
Retired bureaucrat Ram Pradhan, who probed lapses of the Mumbai police
during 26/11, has said the truth about who did what during the terror
attack will come out when his report is made public one day. .....
- Explain neta-criminal nexus,
Court tells Rane
- by The Hindustan Times
Revenue Minister Narayan Rane may have tried to wash his hands off his
statement about a nexus between politicians and terrorists, but the high
court wants an explanation. .....
- Politicians mess up again
- by Dharmendra Jore
The only-by-invitation tribute ceremony that the state government held
on Thursday evening at Gateway of India was expected to be a disciplined
affair. But as the programme progressed, many attendees felt that the
common citizens outside the half-empty state enclosure were far more heartfelt.
.....
- Balle Aiyyo! Mixed matches
score high
- by Saira Kurup
Neetu P Nair, nee Pahuja, probably never thought she would one day be
celebrating Karva Chauth in a Malayali household. But that's what she
did this year, dressed in her festive finery. .....
- Reds extort Rs 2k cr each
year in India: C'garh DGP
- by The Times of India
Maoists annually extort up to Rs 2,000 crore across India, mostly targeting
iron and coal mining companies, infrastructure project contractors and
tendu patta businessmen, says Chhattisgarh DGP Vishwa Ranjan. .....
- Naidu demands JPC probe
into Andhra mining scam
- by The Times of India
Calling it the biggest scam of all times, TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu
on Saturday demanded a probe by a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC)
into the mining syndicate run by the Reddy brothers in Karnataka and Andhra
Pradesh. .....
- SIMI activist kills ATS
cop, 2 others in MP
- by Suchandana Gupta
Sending shockwaves in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa town, a suspected SIMI
activist riding a motorbike on Saturday shot dead three people, including
a cop from the state's anti-terror squad. The police are yet to identify
the assailant and have launched a manhunt. .....
- Sikh advocate in Pak stripped,
threatened with conversion
- by Yudhvir Rana
A Sikh advocate in Pakistan was reportedly thrashed and threatened with
dire consequences recently if he did not convert to Islam, forcing his
family to run for safety to a gurdwara in Hassanabdal near Rawalpindi.
.....
- 'I can't change Pak attitude
on terror. Only pressure can work'
- by The Times of India
Chidambaram and defence minister A K Antony - on Friday expressed concern
over Pakistan's attitude towards terror groups operating from its soil,
stating that the neighbouring country was not doing enough to act against
terrorists. .....
- 'I don't regret Sandeep
joining NSG'
- by Anubha Sawhney Joshi
His father believed he would have made a successful IT professional. For
his mother, he was the best son ever. But since the age of 13, Sandeep
Unnikrishnan was sure he wanted to serve the country. And he did, making
the ultimate sacrifice on 26/11. .....
- ACHC briefed on plans to
rebuild North
- by Ananth Palakidnar
The Government has worked out extensive plans to rebuild the Western Northern
Province with enhancing the educational facilities .....
- Muslim nations seek int'l
blasphemy ban
- by The Times of India
Four years after cartoons of Prophet Muhammad set off violent protests
across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an
international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from .....
- The good doc revisits Leo's
- by Nitasha Natu
Breaking bread at Leopold's is not what he does often. But on Thursday,
Dr Akash Akinwar, a lecturer at the dental college in St George's Hospital
.....
- Congress not averse
to doing biz with Koda
- by Swapan Dasgupta
It's a great feeling to stumble upon a real gem. While browsing through
a London bookshop last summer, it was chance that my eyes fell on a slim
book .....
- China has tamed India with
help from Obama
- by Swapan Dasgupta
It's a great feeling to stumble upon a real gem. While browsing through
a London bookshop last summer, it was chance that my eyes fell on a slim
book .....
- Indonesian lessons for secular
India
- by Sadanand Dhume
If you had to pick the place in the Muslim world least susceptible to
any kind of religious extremism, it would be hard to find a better candidate
than Indonesia .....
- Terror threat: We have lost
the plot
- by M J Akbar
The ebb from outrage to rage, its decline to umbrage, and then a drift
to amnesia is the narrative of the 12 months since the terrorist assault
on Mumbai .....
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