Former President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan said “religion is behaviour and not mere belief.” By this yardstick, those committing violence in the name of Islam are not, as the US State Department and our own leaders claim, “misguided” believers. Terrorists planning and committing atrocities in the name of Islam, particularly when backed … Read More
Good old-fashioned nationalism compels me to write about the duplicitous UN Oil for Food scam at a time when I am deeply anguished over the tragedy which has effectively ended all festivities in the capital. Most of us will go through the motions of observing Hindu dharma’s greatest annual event, … Read More
Successive Indian governments have failed to protest America’s propensity to misuse human rights issues for politically motivated calumny against nations it seeks to undermine to serve its foreign policy objectives. Shamefully, large sections of the Indian elite also betrays unseemly desperation to report against the nation to US human rights … Read More
The brutal and cold-blooded murder of ten Hindus in Rajouri district on midnight 9 October 2005 is a grim reminder of the ongoing genocide of the native minority in Jammu & Kashmir. And the disgraceful near-total blackout of this news by the secular media is proof, if any were needed, … Read More
India is in serious danger of losing ownership and control over her civilizational heritage due to the machinations of an insidious combine of Left-wing academics, Page Three authorities on culture and urban development, and an architects lobby posing as experts on archaeology and conservation. Looming behind them is UNESCO, a … Read More
The Allahabad High Court’s decision to declare the Aligarh Muslim University (Amendment) Act 1981 as unconstitutional on grounds that AMU is not a minority institution is likely to heighten the competitive political communalism currently gripping a number of political parties. Congress Party stalwarts have already indicated uneasiness with the verdict, … Read More
It is to Tehran’s credit that it has recovered its composure over India’s shocking vote at the IAEA Board of Governors meeting at Vienna, and announced that it will go ahead with the US $22 billion LNG deal with New Delhi. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who played his cards so … Read More
The Rajasthan Congress took one day to expel Manchand Khandela, vice president of its Intellectual Cell, after his 250-page polemic against the ‘dynasty’ made it the laughing stock of Indian politics. Although Mr. Khandela didn’t tell us anything new, he did shine the spotlight on two unsavoury aspects of Gandhi … Read More
A quiet revolution brewing in arid Rajasthan may well be the blooming of the desert through sustainable techniques of water management along the rediscovered Sarasvati riverbed. Rajasthan Chief Minister, Ms. Vasundhara Raje, who led the BJP to a spectacular 120-seat victory two years ago, and then went on to astound … Read More
Having never been a sports-watcher, I just didn’t notice that Sania Mirza was playing in skimpy skirts rather than shorts until the bellicose Jamaat-e-Ulema-e-Hind issued dire warnings about her ‘un-Islamic’ attire. Avid secularists promptly pleaded that the tennis star be allowed to live like a ‘normal’ 18-year-old and Kolkata Police … Read More
