In the western world, politics is more about serving covert, mainly illicit economic interests, than about meeting the genuine aspirations of the people. The most glaring example of this, of course, is the September Eleven incident in New York, which enabled President George Bush to bomb Afghanistan into the Stone … Read More
It is a well-known maxim that the questions one asks determine the nature of the responses elicited. This is true of the conveniently coincidental “nation-wide” survey organised by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies-Indian Express-CNN-IBN on two years of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. We learn, unsurprisingly, that ordinary … Read More
Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi’s determination to snatch caste-based quotas from Hindus and extend them to Muslims and Christians, using the Ranganath Mishra National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities (NCRLM) and HRD Minister Arjun Singh, deserves a constitutional challenge. Caste is the building block of Hindu society, the system by … Read More
Barely a month after his visit to New Delhi for support in rebuilding his Maoist-ravaged country, Nepal’s appointed interim Prime Minister G.P. Koirala has delivered his unhappy nation into the hands of its worst tormentor and retired to a hospital bed. Whispers from Kathmandu suggest that Prachanda, would-be President-King of … Read More
Two recent initiatives by Hindus living abroad raise fundamental questions about who has the right (adhikaar) to speak for the Hindu community in India and in the various countries where Hindus have settled, often for generations. The question is pertinent because in the Vedic tradition, the celestial island on which … Read More
The sudden move by the National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities (NCRLM) to seek public opinion regarding extension of constitutional benefits to SC/ST converts is consistent with the UPA agenda of fragmenting the nation by privileging non-Hindu groups in society. Given the brazen manner in which UPA chairperson Sonia … Read More
The current initiative of Sri Swarupanandendra Swami of the Visakhapatnam-based Sri Sarada Peetham to mobilize Hindu seers to protect dharma in the face of rising depredations by evangelists has not come a day too soon. While religious conversions are innately offensive, the rising political eminence of an Italian-born Roman Catholic … Read More
Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s remark that the “under-representation” of Muslims in public employment and public life is “unacceptable” is a classic example of the irresponsible brinksmanship that characterizes her public life. Inaugurating the India Islamic Cultural Centre in Delhi recently, Ms. Gandhi tacitly held Hindu society responsible for the Muslim … Read More
RECENT developments in neighbouring Nepal, where a caretaker regime has literally usurped unacceptable powers to humiliate the King and change the character of the nation, have shown Indian foreign policy in a poor light. But this is by no means the only occasion on which the UPA Government has handled … Read More
Some time after the arrest of the Kanchi Acharyas, the BJP Think Tank hosted a talk where an ideologue defended the greatest civilizational insult Hindu India has suffered since the assassination of Guru Tegh Bahadur by a rabid Islamist ruler. The speaker diminished the seers and insinuated that chief minister … Read More
