A new communal faultline has been added to the body politic vide the 104th Constitution Amendment Bill which provides reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in unaided private educational institutions, including schools, but excludes minority institutions from its ambit. The legislation is fraught with dangers for the homogeneity and … Read More
As the White House resorts to intellectual demagoguery to manipulate world opinion on Iran, Iraq, and the United Nations, some things need articulation. One is that despite the intensity with which a ‘demonize Islam’ project is being promoted worldwide, real engagement with the ‘religion of peace’ is being vehemently discouraged, … Read More
The Indian diaspora in America is upset over the manner in which the California education department has permitted known anti-Hindu baiters like Harvard professor Michael Witzel and other usual suspects to intrude in the textbook selection and reform process, in violation of established norms. The result is that while the … Read More
Two indigenous groups with a lived history of centuries of civilizational amity are supposedly engaged in fratricidal conflict in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district. To the bewilderment of the majority of Karbis and Dimasas, gangs of armed and hooded goons have been killing members of both tribes since late September, while … Read More
Conversions undermine the national interest in the most unimaginable ways, and since the British consciously mooted conversions to Christianity to perpetuate their rule by alienating converts from native society and civilization, discerning Indians would do well do follow the current Supreme Court hearing on a petition demanding reservation benefits to … Read More
In north India, particularly in the Mathura region, Krishna is worshipped as the Lord of Radha, and “Radhe Radhe” is the common civilian greeting in this part of the country. Krishna is also revered as Radha-Ramana (Beloved of Radha), and as Radha-Krishna. Radha shunned all contemporary mortal ties for sublime … Read More
Having salivated over the sauce in the Volcker report and thrown Mr. Natwar Singh out of the Foreign Ministry, may we ask where the beef is? I ask because I am sufficiently Gandhian to believe there must be a moral relationship between ends and means, and while the goal of … Read More
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
