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
If Iranian President Ahmadinejad is serious about opening a Euro-based oil bourse in Tehran to undermine the US dollar, now is the time to strike. Strategic experts believe that internationally, the mega strategic energy deals are slipping away from corporate America, whose strong arm tactics are alienating growing nationalist sentiment … Read More
There is a delicious irony in the Congress-led UPA government declaring national mourning for Varanasi icon Bismillah Khan on the very day that Union HRD minister Arjun Singh issued a directive making the recitation of Vande Mataram optional in educational institutions on September 7, the centenary of its adoption. Consider … Read More
Strongly affirming the role of religion in defining individual and group identity, Jharkhand’s beleaguered Sarna tribe is demanding immediate withdrawal of reservation benefits in government jobs and educational institutions from members who have converted to Christianity. The Kendriya Sarna Samiti (KSS), which has taken the lead in this matter, asserts … Read More
The word Hindutva entered our contemporary political vocabulary nearly two decades ago, along with the movement to liberate the Ram Janmabhoomi. Since then, it has been a loaded concept, infused with negative connotations imposed by its opponents who have failed to comprehend, much less appreciate it, but have nonetheless obliquely … Read More
The BJP’s rise in national politics, to the point where it led a national coalition in 1998, was both the triumph of Hindu nationalism for the first time since 1947 and a powerful affirmation of the RSS’ goal of empowering the Hindu community. Naturally, this was bad news for our … Read More
Archbishop Mar Varkey Vithayathil recently startled India’s intellectual elite with his call for more babies to arrest the decline of Kerala’s Catholic community. Perturbed at the toll taken by abortion and the small family norm on the Syro-Malabar Church, he insisted the burgeoning national population is no problem and that … Read More
If I were Prime Minister of Hindu-majority India, I would discard without delay the debilitating missionary propaganda about turning the other cheek (interestingly never followed in Western Christian nations), and respond to the grave national challenges with manly valour and statesmanship. In the penumbra of the approaching Krishna Janmasthami, this … Read More
Indians have taken so many of their modern political ideas and values from the Western Christian tradition that they naively assume that the West lives up to all its stated political idealism and professed civilisational values. That this is far from the living reality was brought home to many people … Read More
The US $ 50,000 Magsaysay Award was recently conferred upon Arvind Kejriwal, a former Indian Revenue Service officer campaigning for the Right to Information (RTI). Though several Indians have received this prize from Philippines, not many citizens are aware that this is actually an American award for Asians. Set up … Read More
