Barely twenty four hours after Defence Ministry sources said the defunct Trishul surface-to-air missile project would be wound up in December this year, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee was forced to state that the project was being extended by a year. This is despite the fact that the Defence Research and … Read More
Dr. Farooq Abdullah’s staggering assertion that the sessions judge who awarded the death penalty to Afzal Guru for his role in 2001 attack on Parliament could be murdered by Kashmiri terrorists carries the implicit threat that the High Court and Supreme Court judges who upheld the verdict could meet a … Read More
A well orchestrated campaign against Hindu dharma has been launched in the name of animal rights and temple reform. If Hindu leaders are not vigilant about the sensitivities of the devout, non-believers will literally hold the community to ransom. I first noticed this danger in June 2002 when King Gyanendra … Read More
Although the Kerala Police have not spelled out the larger conspiracy to defame the Sabarimala shrine, there can be little doubt that actress Jaimala acted at the behest of her Christian co-religionists to secure non-Hindu intervention in the affairs of one of the holiest Hindu pilgrimages. The so-called incident became … Read More
Jains who have compromised their spiritual honour by demanding minority status must explain why ‘fellow minorities’ did not support ‘Jain personal law’ when two women recently undertook ‘sallekhana,’ one of whom is alive at the time of writing this piece. Regular readers are aware I place Jains within the Indic … Read More
Gujarat has made a major stride in the proper definition of the nation’s Indic traditions by delineating the Jaina and Bauddha streams as part of the larger Hindu community for purposes of evaluating religious conversions. The Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill 2006 is significant precisely for the logical coherence it … Read More
Gujarat has made a major stride in the proper definition of the nation’s Indic traditions by delineating the Jaina and Bauddha streams as part of the larger Hindu community for purposes of evaluating religious conversions. The Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill 2006 is significant precisely for the logical coherence it … Read More
It is even more duplicitous that a Catholic school resorted to such a cheap subterfuge to force minor children into baptism against the knowledge and wishes of their parents. When challenged in a recent television interview that such a practice was against Catholic theology, sister Monica admitted that the church … Read More
Pushing the envelope firmly while regretting the ‘misunderstanding’ caused by his discourse on violence in Islam, Pope Benedict XVI has sounded the battle-cry for Christian domination in Europe. His initiative in a speech supposedly about faith and reason at Germany’s University of Regensburg vindicates the Western world’s political foresight in … Read More
It is a sad and undeniable truth that the California Hindu community has failed to win a substantive victory in the US courts in the matter of the shoddy depiction of Hindu faith and culture in school textbooks. The substance of the so-called success boils down to the judge accepting … Read More
