Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh could hardly have realized the irony in his statement, “most of the controversies about history are because too many non-historians are talking about how history should be written.” Alas, instead of taking a leaf from his own book, Singh spoke expansively about the politicization … Read More
An inscrutable destiny, Mahakaal, has presented modern India with a strange paradox. Punjab, land of the Vedas, and Uttar Pradesh, quintessential Aryavarta where Vedic civilization reached its pinnacle, are caught in a peculiar face-off between History and Dharma, even as both states prepare for assembly elections in the forthcoming year. … Read More
Under the pretext of disseminating true knowledge about the past to young, impressionable school children, a perverse assault has been launched upon the religious sensitivities of the Hindu community. Marxist historians allege that ancient Hindus ate beef, that this is recorded in their sacred scriptures, and that this should be … Read More
Anybody with a nodding acquaintance with the ideas of His Holiness Karl Marx (peace be upon him) would know that he analyzed Europe’s declining feudalism and rising mercantilism and propounded the theory that economic forces have independent power to change societies, and that the politics of individual rulers play only … Read More
Even by the deplorable standards of public discourse in India, the cloying communalism of leftist Muslim academics and the utter falsehoods being propagated by their secular comrades are breathtaking. In the two months since the apocalyptic attack on the symbols of American military and economic power, the worldwide Islamic intellectual … Read More
The abject failure of national security adviser Brajesh Mishra’s mission to Dhaka is best gauged from the fresh atrocities against Indians on the Meghalaya border, where the Pakhria hamlet was ransacked by over a hundred heavily armed intruders, and a resisting tribal youth hacked to death (Pioneer, 30 October 2001). … Read More
Intoxicated, or perhaps exhausted, by its exuberant diplomacy with the United States for a share of the action against international terrorism, the BJP-led government has failed to take note of the orchestrated violence against Hindus in Bangladesh, and the dangerously rising levels of Islamic fundamentalism there. Over three weeks after … Read More
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s bold pledge to take on the Taliban-Pakistan-backed Islamic fundamentalists in Kashmir is somewhat undermined by his government’s shocking silence at the continuing atrocities against Hindus in Bangladesh. Press reports from Bangladesh itself suggest that the incidents following the victory of Mrs. Khaleda Zia and her … Read More
Al-Jazeera’s telecast of Osama bin Laden’s statement taunting and daring the United States is chilling evidence, were any needed, that across Qatar, Kabul, Kashmir, Kaaba, Khartoum et al, the Islamic brotherhood thumbs its nose at the modern world and its values. Simultaneously, the Pakistani Urdu weekly Takbeer’s interview with the … Read More
The death of a single Sikh from a misdirected hate crime in America has compelled noted columnist Khushwant Singh to recognize that “Islam has more ghazis and jehadis than others… motivated…more by hate of infidels… Amongst their many targets is India because it is predominantly non-Muslim. What can we do … Read More
