Wincing over Da Vinci Code

Three Vatican-affiliated satrapies have unilaterally banned the Hollywood blockbuster, Da Vinci Code, thereby affirming paramount loyalty to Il Papa as opposed to the Indian nation. Nagaland, as is well known, was among the first states in which foreign Christian missionaries armed, trained and inspired tribal converts to secede from New … Read More

Da Vinci: Cross with the Code?

It must have come as a surprise to Information & Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmushi that India’s supposedly small Roman Catholic community can field two hundred organizations to protest the screening of the Hollywood blockbuster, Da Vinci Code, based on Dan Brown’s bestselling novel by the same name. Certainly it would … Read More

Sonia: Countdown to early poll

The countdown for an early demise of the UPA regime has begun. As of now, there is great secrecy over whether the National Advisory Council (NAC) will eventually be exempted from the purview of the ‘office of profit,’ whether Ms. Sonia Gandhi will return as chairperson if her cabinet rank … Read More

Mahajan: Man and myth

Even in his last cogent moments, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan proved he was made of a different mettle. Far from losing his nerve at the unexpected dastardly attack upon him, Mr. Mahajan kept his wits about him, directing his wife to call close relations and take him to … Read More

US-funded NGOs spreading disaffection

Under the guise of human rights and freedom of religion, America has for some time been promoting certain Dalit activists, who regularly report to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and the US State Department’s Bureau of  Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, about India’s internal affairs. Now, American … Read More

Biblicists target Hindus

Unknown to most Indians, the raging controversy over the California school textbooks being challenged by Hindu American parents is rooted in the staunch commitment of certain academics to the Biblical version of Creation. Herr Michael Witzel, whose professional reputation is linked to the Aryan Invasion Theory, which derives from a … Read More